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Firefox on MacOS: insane battery drain, subpar performance and endless frustration

Firefox on MacOS: insane battery drain, subpar performance and endless frustration

July 4, 2018

I recently installed (approx. a month ago) Firefox version 60 (now updated to 61) on MacOS in the hope of further strengthening my « Gexit » (Google Exit). Google is a company I do not trust anymore, for various philosophical, ethical and practical reasons, so stopping using their products is a priority

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Opinion – Online Privacy: You’re In Control

Opinion – Online Privacy: You’re In Control

June 13, 2018

Not a week passes without hearing in the news of a major data breach, a social media service into yet another mess-up, or a major vendor purchasing a popular service. What’s the usual outcome? Outcries of disgust, rants, complaints about privacy invasion/loss of privacy, individuals threatening to leave the service,

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Druva acquires CloudRanger, expands backup capabilities to AWS

Druva acquires CloudRanger, expands backup capabilities to AWS

June 6, 2018

I had a short call yesterday with my friend W. Curtis Preston, a Tech Field Day alumn turned Chief Technical Architect at Druva, to get an update about their latest whereabouts. It turns out that yesterday Druva unveiled on 5-Jun-18 the acquisition of Ireland-based company CloudRanger, a data solution protection

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PowerMax – Dell EMC returns to Tier-0 land with a Next-Gen, ML-enabled storage platform

PowerMax – Dell EMC returns to Tier-0 land with a Next-Gen, ML-enabled storage platform

May 2, 2018

This week, Dell EMC have announced the availability of their latest and most powerful storage array to date, the PowerMax. The announcement took place at Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas, where I was present as an industry analyst and blogger / influencer. We learned that the PowerMax will be

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Liqid – a new approach at composable infrastructure

Liqid – a new approach at composable infrastructure

March 8, 2018

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to be briefed by the folks at Liqid, a Colorado-based startup. Their website claims that “The future is on-demand composable infrastructure”. There are now several companies claiming that they operate in this space, so we set to understand what is Liqid vision

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Cisco HyperFlex 3.0 – A mature hyper-converged solution ready for next-gen workloads

Cisco HyperFlex 3.0 – A mature hyper-converged solution ready for next-gen workloads

January 29, 2018

Today we were briefed at Cisco Live Europe 2018 in Barcelona about the latest improvements done on the Cisco HyperFlex platform. My readers may know that I have covered HyperFlex first in 2016, then in 2017, both times during Cisco Live Europe. These posts may have been controversial because I

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Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2018: what news under the skies of Barcelona?

Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2018: what news under the skies of Barcelona?

January 19, 2018

It is with great pleasure that I will join again in 2018 the dear friends at Tech Field Day for their traditional Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe event. After the last two editions taking place in Berlin, we will leave the typical cold & gloomy Mitteleuropäischer Winter for hopefully

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Uila App-Centric Monitoring: Deep Packet Inspection meets beautiful UI

Uila App-Centric Monitoring: Deep Packet Inspection meets beautiful UI

January 8, 2018

I recently had the opportunity to attend a technology briefing from Uila, a company that works in the IT Monitoring space. This is a briefing I took up with great interest since colleagues and friends in the community had been talking (and writing) highly of them after they had presented

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Dell EMC VMAX All-Flash: A proven solution for mission-critical systems

Dell EMC VMAX All-Flash: A proven solution for mission-critical systems

December 28, 2017

When determining storage capacity, performance and availability requirements for their mission-critical systems, most if not all organisations try to solve the equation, once presented with alternatives, by looking primarily at pricing and attempting to juice out the best for what they can afford or be prepared to pay. While this

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E8 Storage: The Mercedes-Maybach 6 of NVMe Flash Arrays

E8 Storage: The Mercedes-Maybach 6 of NVMe Flash Arrays

November 23, 2017

When it comes to design, making things elaborate and complicated is not necessarily the best way to go. Keeping things simple while focusing on delivering outcomes that match the customer expectations (if not exceeding them) is what matters. I was once again in beautiful Silicon Valley in November 2017 at Storage

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The challenge of doing data management at scale

The challenge of doing data management at scale

October 27, 2017

This article has been inspired by my upcoming participating in the Commvault GO Conference in Washington D.C. on the 6th and 7th of November 2017 as a part of the Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO event. Commvault pride themselves in being a Data Management company, so I’ve been

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InfiniBox: solving the enterprise storage cost vs performance equation?

InfiniBox: solving the enterprise storage cost vs performance equation?

October 24, 2017

This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 14. Find out the entire SFD14 content, presentations, articles, presenting companies and delegates here. As I wrote in my announcement of joining Storage Field Day 14 and Commvault GO, Infinidat is a company I had been looking at

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I will be at Commvault Go and Storage Field Day 14!

I will be at Commvault Go and Storage Field Day 14!

October 19, 2017

This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 14 event and the Commvault GO conference. Find out the entire SFD14 content, presentations, articles, presenting companies and delegates here. For Commvault GO, look here! It looks like November is going to be a very busy time

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Open Convergence: the next evolution of HCI?

Open Convergence: the next evolution of HCI?

October 18, 2017

Recently we’ve seen data center vendors advocate for a new breed of on-premises infrastructures branded as open convergence. Datrium is one of these, and if they are not the herald bearing high the flag of open convergence waving gracefully in the wind of change, they can very likely claim to

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Four reasons why you should attend the TECHunplugged conference series

Four reasons why you should attend the TECHunplugged conference series

October 3, 2017

As some of you know, I’ve joined TECHunplugged earlier in 2017 at Arjan Timmerman‘s proposition after our dear friend Enrico Signoretti (who founded TECHunplugged) accepted a position of Head of Product Strategy at OpenIO. Today, I would like to cover the value proposition of the TECHunplugged conference and why it makes

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