Cisco To Buy Nutanix?
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…
Category Archives: HyperConvergence
EMC’s Tom Sawyer Strategy for Hyper Converged
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hyper-Flash? Merging Hyperconvergence with All Flash
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…
VMware joins the hyperconverged party
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…