As you’ve noticed, I tend to write from time to time on my experiences with cryptocurrencies. By now you may have understood that my interest is mainly with the coins that support the equihash algorithm (ASIC resistant, GPU-based mining) such as ZCash and its derivates, ZClassic and ZenCash. The challenges
This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 13 and the Pure Storage Accelerate conferences. Find out the entire SFD13 content, presentations, articles, presenting companies and delegates here. What is the SNIA? Is it a brand? Is it the acronym for the Super Network Integrated
This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 13 and the Pure Storage Accelerate conferences. Find out the entire SFD13 content, presentations, articles, presenting companies and delegates here. This primer article for Storage Field Day 13 will cover Dell EMC Technologies. Because we do not
My regular readers or twitter followers may have noticed that besides data center topics, I talk about cryptocurrencies from time to time. I’ve written a beginner’s introduction about zCash mining earlier in 2017, and would now like to talk about Zencash, a very new cryptocurrency that went live on 30-May-17. The network
This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 13 and the Pure Storage Accelerate conferences. Find out the entire SFD13 content, presentations, articles, presenting companies and delegates here. X-IO is a company working in the storage field that I had never heard about until today.
This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 13 and the Pure Storage Accelerate conferences. Find out the entire SFD13 content, presentations, articles, presenting companies and delegates here. I first met the fine folks at Exablox at Storage Field Day 10 in May 2016, however
This article is the first part of a series of two articles covering Oracle Cloud Strategy. This article will cover the Oracle Ravello Cloud Service (ORCS). The second article will cover the broader Oracle Cloud offering and will draw my analysis and conclusions about the general Oracle Cloud Strategy.
This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 13 and the Pure Storage Accelerate conferences. Find out the entire SFD13 content, presentations, articles, presenting companies and delegates here. As the title says, I’m in for a very special week in June! I have the pleasure
As I was writing in June 2016, going against the grain has its merits and can bring the most unexpected seeds to grow and blossom. Pure Storage had surprised us in May 2016 with their All-Flash Array (AFA) for unstructured storage: the FlashBlade and its purpose-built architecture, especially its unique –
As you know I was invited at HPE Discover in November 2016 and at the time my vision of things for HPE wasn’t exactly idyllic. Yes, the innovations in the 3PAR line were great, but there was nothing unique going on. The Machine, a great scientific project, looked to me
Again I’m back from Cisco Live and in this 2017 edition, we can be grateful that the focus was predominantly on security. But how do security and IoT play hand-in-hand? And what the hell is IoT? It refers to the « Internet of Things » acronym, i.e. a broad array of commodity devices/sensors
About one year ago, Cisco announced their HyperFlex hyper-converged offering. At that time I did review the solution and provided my mixed comments to that solution. Since one year has passed, what has changed in the hyper-converged space for Cisco, and what about Cisco HyperFlex? 2016: A year of changes for Cisco partnerships
Today you may have catched an announcement on the TECHunplugged website stating that I am joining forces with Arjan Timmerman and Jane Rimmer as a co-organizator of the TECHunplugged conference series. As you know, the TECHunplugged conference was started a few years ago by my friend Enrico Signoretti and he was joined
Note: this article has been updated on 19-Apr-17. zCash is a new decentralised digital cryptocurrency which aims to provide better privacy of transactions by allowing either transparent addresses (t-addresses) or zero-knowledge proof addresses (z-addresses). While it uses a part of BitCoin’s original code, it’s been heavily modified by the development team. zCash
The more I’ve been working in IT, the more I’ve seen security disasters and the more I’ve become self-conscious about privacy and security. One of the largest pieces of our digital presence are our e-mail addresses. I’ve wanted to secure my e-mails and my privacy for a long time but the hassle of going