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Category Archives: HyperConvergence
Dude you’re getting a Cisco?
First lets get the disclaimers out of the way. I am speaking on my own behalf and not that of my employer. So as you may have noticed, I’ve been a tad quiet as of late since changing jobs and … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco, HyperConvergence, OmniStack, SimpliVity
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The Journey To Leadership Starts With Having Vision
In 2009, Gartner released the Magic Quadrant for Web Hosting and Hosted Cloud System Infrastructure Services. At that time, Amazon Web Services, AWS for short, appeared as one of the Visionaries in the space. I have to wonder, if at that … Continue reading
Posted in Enterprise Tech, Gartner MQ, HyperConvergence
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OMG! Learn about vSAN and Hyper-Converged Offerings, win the Deathstar!
OMG indeed, if you didn’t see the tweet by David Davis or Scott Lowe (aka OtherScottLowe) they are doing a vendor neutral webinar on vSAN as well as Hyperconvergence and the Datacenter of the Future. January 30th, 2014 – 2:00pm … Continue reading
Backup Is Broken
Every night millions of terabytes of data are read and written. In my view, this is a wasted IO operation. This graph should look familiar, its what I’m speaking of when I say that backup is broken. That every time … Continue reading
DEDUPE ALL THE DATA
Funfact: This post will be markety in nature. I just got back from the Gartner Data Center Symposium where we (SimpliVity) were Platinum sponsor. This was my first time at a Gartner based event and I found the overall atmosphere … Continue reading
3E’s of Storage Part Deux
Quick Stealth Edit: I should preface a lot of this with much of this discussion is focused on storage in Virtualized Environments, but the overall gist of the 3E’s should apply to physical as well. So in part one, I … Continue reading
vBrownbag Tech Talk – VMworld 2013 – Hyperconvergence
So after a week of talking to people for 16 hours a day, I felt that I had 7 more minutes of speech capability left and gave a quick overview of Hyperconvergence during the vBrownbag Tech Talks. If my voice … Continue reading
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Going to VMworld? Stop by and see me.
So the preparation for VMworld is in full swing with the floor build out starting Thursday around 1PM. It’s always amazing to me how a giant conference hall can go from empty floor space to huge Solutions Exchange in a … Continue reading
Posted in HyperConvergence, Omnicube, OmniStack, SimpliVity, VMworld
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Challenge your biases, change your preconceived notions.
In 2011 I was at VMworld and spent a lot of time at the solutions exchange visiting all the storage vendors. At the time I was the primary storage and virtualization administrator at my company and this was my first … Continue reading
Posted in HyperConvergence, Storage, Storage & Virtualization, Uncategorized, VMUG
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My Biggest Competitor: The Status Quo
For the record, I’ve never heard of the British band “The Status Quo“. Apparently they are a pretty big deal in the UK, but unlike say the British Invasion bands (The Who, Beatles, The Rolling Stones, or even later Pink … Continue reading