I am back from Tech Field Day 20, a very rich event both in terms of content presented and in human interactions. During Tech Field Day events, each presenting company shows their product, which includes the interface(s) with whom users will interact. Another aspect of those presentations is how data
Tech Field Day 20 will take place next week from 12 to 15-Nov-19. While it seems like it’s just yet another Tech Field Day, it’s definitely not.At least not for me, and for two reasons. My first Tech Field Day is next week First reason is that TFD20 will be
I’m pleased to inform that I will be attending Pure Storage Accelerate in Austin, TX (15-Sep-19 to 18-Sep-19) as a part of the Analyst track. I will also be joining my Tech Field Day friends, as well as awesome friends & delegates, to participate in the live streaming / recording
This content is 7 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.I’d like to share today something a bit different than the usual technical stuff. While at Dell Technologies World, I had a really interesting and meaningful conversation with Konstanze Alex, Head of Influencer Relations at
This content is 7 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.I’m at Dell Technologies World this week in Las Vegas and I’ve had the pleasure to be briefed on the latest announcements in midrange storage, namely the introduction of the Unity XT. What’s new with
This content is 7 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Flash memory has been one of my topics of predilection lately. Some 3D XPoint coverage here, a TECHunplugged research paper on the Solid State Industry Memory in 2019 (with an accompanying blog post here) and
This content is 8 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.More and more of the companies who have been in the business of data protection are now in the business of data management. Is it still relevant to develop, market and sell data protection solutions
This content is 8 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.In January 2019 I attended Cisco Live alongside with Tech Field Day Extra. During that event, we had a presentation on the latest generation of Cisco’s HCI solution, Cisco HyperFlex (HX). The outcome of this
This content is 8 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.It’s not the first time I cover the topic of data management. In the past, I covered on my blog some of the challenges encountered with data management, specifically the ability (and necessity) to properly
This content is 9 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.I’m just back from Storage Field Day 18 where we had an a very dense agenda of sessions with multiple vendors. A lot of posts will hopefully be coming out of this in the next
This content is 9 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.There are some industry events where we go with a bit of apprehension and the fear of catching “keynote measles”. But then, there are also those events that we’re excited about, that start looking more
This content is 10 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Networking isn’t exactly my cup of ristretto. When I’m invited to events such as Cisco Live, I’m usually the quiet guy (unless it comes to storage or cloud) in the room trying to understand what
This content is 10 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.IT is an industry where we’re hardly given a break. Last year’s bag of buzzwords is sill around and we are already getting hammered by new ones. Multicloud is one thing we’ll keep hearing during
This content is 10 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind. Update 18-Mar-19 – Please read this article with caution. Parts of it have been superseded due to clarifications received from Cisco and are kept only for historical reasons. The article containing the updates is
This content is 10 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.January is the month of predictions in IT. While I do not have a crystal ball, I will not claim that 2019 will be the year of VDI or the year of Linux on desktops.