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
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
Today Ravello announced that their nested virtualization solution, widely known and acclaimed by VMware technologists, is now available as a bare metal service on Oracle Cloud. What does this announcement exactly means, and beyond technological aspects what are the benefits of this solution? My regular readers may know about Ravello
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. Redefining X-IO Axellio I’ve written about X-IO and Axellio before flying to Storage Field Day 13 and
My readers know that I have a weak spot for Pure Storage as well as Cohesity, as I believe both companies are innovators and disruptors of their own markets. I had the occasion to be briefed by Cohesity on their most recent platform improvements in May 2017 at their HQ,
This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 13 and the Pure Storage Accelerate conferences. I had the incredible chance to attend two events last week in the United States: Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2017 (in San Francisco), followed by three full
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
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