Category Archives: HyperConvergence

Cisco To Buy Nutanix?

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Gabriel

This is about as likely to happen as me becoming a vegetarian. Which is not to say that it’s not an outright impossibility, but the probability is very very low. Like many people, I’ve heard the rumors of Cisco looking to … Continue reading →

Posted in Cisco, HyperConvergence, Nutanix, SimpliVity, Tech Marketing | 9 Comments

EMC’s Tom Sawyer Strategy for Hyper Converged

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Gabriel

Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawer” was a book I read when I was in Elementary School and tells the story about Tom Sawyer, and Huckleberry Finn growing up along the Mississippi river and some of the adventures the … Continue reading →

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Doing “IT” The Hard Way, or Why You Should Be Hyper Converged

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Gabriel

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 | 2 Comments

With Hyper Converged: Don’t Believe the Hype???

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Gabriel

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 | 11 Comments

2014: Validation of Hyper Convergence – 2015 Hyper Converged Goes Mainstream

Posted on January 4, 2015 by Gabriel

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 →

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Hyper converged is just the tip, let me show you my rack

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Gabriel

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 →

Posted in Enterprise Tech, HyperConvergence, Rack Sale, Storage & Virtualization | 2 Comments

Shameless Plug: VMworld Europe Tech Talk

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Gabriel

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 →

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The Federation Is Now Complete

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Gabriel

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 →

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Hyper-Flash? Merging Hyperconvergence with All Flash

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Gabriel

Today there was an article in the register by Chris Mellor about the Hyperconverged vendors looking to move to all flash inside their platforms. It’s obviously a logical next step to think that if you want ultra high performance in … Continue reading →

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VMware joins the hyperconverged party

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Gabriel

So the Mystic/Marvin cat is out of the bag and VMware has announced EVO:Rail as their entry in the Hyperconverged infrastructure space. There are several great blog posts about this announcement, and you can tell that VMware was very selective … Continue reading →

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