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Author Archives: Gabriel
Doing “IT” The Hard Way, or Why You Should Be Hyper Converged
So to counter balance my other piece from this week on some of the challenges that the Hyper Converged Infrastructure space faces, I thought I would argue the flip side of the coin. If you are not looking to take … Continue reading
Posted in Enterprise Tech, HyperConvergence, Nutanix, Rack Scale, SimpliVity
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DevOpolis Edition #1: Hello World
So with the number of VMware vExperts topping 1000, it was becoming a little unwieldy to continue to scan through a thousand blogs and curate a vExpert Weekly Flipboard magazine, alas I let it kind of wither and die on … Continue reading
Posted in Cloudy, DevOpolis, DevOps, Enterprise Tech
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With Hyper Converged: Don’t Believe the Hype???
It’s about time for a contrarian viewpoint around Hyper Convergence, and what better place to put it forth than from one of its prime cheerleaders (me). With EMC entering the Hyper Converged marketplace with VSPEX:Blue, and the impending releases of … Continue reading
Posted in HyperConvergence, Nutanix, SimpliVity, Virtualization
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2014: Validation of Hyper Convergence – 2015 Hyper Converged Goes Mainstream
2014: Validation of Hyper Convergence Looking back on 2014 I saw it as the year that Hyper Convergence has come into its own as a legitimate data center technology. It’s rare that I don’t run into a customer in my … Continue reading
Posted in Enterprise Tech, HyperConvergence, Rack Scale, Virtualization
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SNLDD Episode #10: Oh the Humanity
It’s been a while since we have had a chance to get the gang together for a good SNLDD episode. While there is no real specific topic for this weeks show, we will be playing a round or two of … Continue reading
Hyper converged is just the tip, let me show you my rack
To say that the Hyper Converged appliance marketplace is “so hot” right now is more or less understatement of the year. Nutanix, Simplivity, Scale Computing, Nimboxx, Pivot3, EVO:Rail, and now Stratoscale (who just secured a 32M B round without even … Continue reading
Shameless Plug: VMworld Europe Tech Talk
For those of you who may have missed it live, I gave a brief tech talk around the state of the Converged Infrastructure marketplace as well as diving a little bit into what I am calling 3rd Wave of Convergence. … Continue reading
The Federation Is Now Complete
Before reading further, read this post from Chad Sakac. Now allow me to talk out my ass and inject wild speculation prefaced by the fact that I’m speaking on my own behalf. First: I think when most people read that … Continue reading
SNLDD Episode #9: Can’t We All Just Get Along?
The storage wars of the mid/late 2000s were fairly legendary, at least that was my take on it from an outsiders viewpoint. There was a period from around 2008-2011 where it went pretty hot and heavy, with the various corporate bloggers/evangelists of … Continue reading
Posted in FUD Wars, Social Media, Storage, Tech Marketing
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In Tech We Trust
So I’ve been quiet on the blog as of late. Several reasons of course. The first few weeks at Cisco have been very busy and I’ve spent considerable time getting ingrained in the Cisco culture and learning how very large … Continue reading
Posted in InTechWeTrust, Podcasts
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