Category Archives: Storage & Virtualization

2005 Called, They Want Their Storage Issues Back

Bear with me folks, as this is going to be a two-parter, and yes I ramble when I write, which is also how I speak. Like many people who work in the technology field, I’m a bit of a pack … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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VMUG-ED in April, or In This Post I Drop Names

April is a busy month. Preface: You may ask “What’s with all the name drops”  in this post? Well, these are all people I would suggest you follow on twitter. Think of this is an elongated #FF. I have linked … Continue reading

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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

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SNLDD Episode #1: Saturday Night Live Deep Dive

Crazy idea came to mind while listening to GS and Discoposse on the VUPAAS podcast this morning while out hiking, Saturday Night Live Deep Dive. Not sure what will come of this,but my thought was to do a simple tech … Continue reading

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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

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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

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