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Category Archives: SimpliVity
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 rumors of Cisco looking to … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco, HyperConvergence, Nutanix, SimpliVity, Tech Marketing
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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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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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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 want ultra high performance in … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco, HyperConvergence, Omnicube, SimpliVity
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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 that VMware was very selective … Continue reading
Posted in HyperConvergence, SimpliVity, Storage & Virtualization, VMWare
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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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Startup Life: A Years Worth Of Activity
So this marks my one year anniversary with the Hyperconverged Infrastructure company SimpliVity. Since the dotcom-bust, this is the first real “start-up” I’ve worked at, though I use the term start-up only in the sense that the company was bringing … Continue reading
Posted in Sales Engineering, SimpliVity, Tech Marketing
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vExpert Weekly Digest – vExpert 2014 Submissions Edition
It’s that time again, the time for vExpert submissions. So far I count roughly 11 different blog posts associated with the release this week. It looks like there have a been a few changes so please go take a look … Continue reading
Posted in SimpliVity, vExpert, vExpert-Weekly
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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