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
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,
These have been two interesting weeks for individuals with a vested interest in equihash-based cryptocurrencies (Zcash, ZenCash, Bitcoin Gold and a few others). While my focus these days is solely on ZenCash (and by extension on Zcash from a research perspective), projects such as Bitcoin Gold and the ZenCash have
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
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
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
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
This content is 6 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 7 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 7 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.I’ve been writing twice about Zencash in 2017, first to introduce the project, then to talk about improvements made in the course of 2017. As we enter 2018 and the project has a solid record
This content is 7 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 7 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.I’ve put together this guide to help the many people who reach out to me and ask me if it’s worth to invest in cryptocurrencies and if so, how to proceed and what to invest
This content is 8 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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)
This content is 9 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 9 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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