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Revisiting Cisco HyperFlex, One Year After

Revisiting Cisco HyperFlex, One Year After

February 23, 2017

Warning – this is an old HyperFlex review from February 2017 – my latest article on Cisco HyperFlex is covered here 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

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TECHunplugged : a new challenge

TECHunplugged : a new challenge

February 22, 2017

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

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My move from Gmail to ProtonMail: a comprehensive report on gaining back my privacy

My move from Gmail to ProtonMail: a comprehensive report on gaining back my privacy

February 6, 2017

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

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How Tech Field Day influenced me in 2016

How Tech Field Day influenced me in 2016

January 29, 2017

It’s with great pleasure that I was invited to participate to my 5th Tech Field Day event in Berlin next month, for Cisco Live Europe 2017. About one year ago, I was surprised to be invited to take part in Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2016 in

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Cohesity – a secondary storage leader in the making?

Cohesity – a secondary storage leader in the making?

January 4, 2017

At VMworld Europe 2016 I had the opportunity to stop by Cohesity’s booth where I had a long technical discussion with Joe Putti (Director of Product Management) followed by a demo. I’d like to thank Joe for his time and his patience, as well as Patrick Rogers (Head of Marketing

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HPE Cloudline CL5200 – A hardware platform built for storage

HPE Cloudline CL5200 – A hardware platform built for storage

December 2, 2016

Most of you who are in the data center business certainly know about HPE and their famous ProLiant server brand. But do you know HPE Cloudline series? Personally I didn’t and honestly passing around a stand showing a 4U device with a stand name in the lines of « Service Providers

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Don’t miss our VMUGCZ meeting in Prague on 6. 12. 2016!

Don’t miss our VMUGCZ meeting in Prague on 6. 12. 2016!

November 23, 2016

We did it again! The second Czech VMUG meeting will take place in Prague on 6th December 2016. The selected venue for this event is again Hotel Barcelo in Prague 4. Instructions to reach the hotel are included in the VMUG event page (see link below). Breakfast, lunch and coffee breaks will be

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Rubrik – A Refreshing Approach to Backups

Rubrik – A Refreshing Approach to Backups

November 13, 2016

I’ve been curious for a long time about Rubrik and what they do in the backup space, however I really never had a chance to look at Rubrik closer until recently. I had the opportunity to steal some time from Rubrik and get a deep-dive session at VMworld 2016 with Chris

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Intel SPDK – A foundation block for new generation storage

Intel SPDK – A foundation block for new generation storage

November 4, 2016

This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 11. Find out the entire SFD11 content, presentations, articles, presenting companies and delegates here. During Storage Field Day 11, Intel presented us their Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK). What does this stands for and what are the advantages?

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My expectations about Nutanix .NEXT in Vienna

My expectations about Nutanix .NEXT in Vienna

November 3, 2016

I will spend most of next week in Vienna, Austria to attend the European edition of the Nutanix .NEXT conference, held by hyper-convergence leader Nutanix. The event (which is already sold out) will take place at the Hilton Vienna (Am Stadtpark), with most of the agenda spreading over two days. I am

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Open-Source Hardware Designs – One step beyond commodity?

Open-Source Hardware Designs – One step beyond commodity?

November 2, 2016

Yesterday my friend Enrico Signoretti shared an article about Microsoft open sourcing their next-gen cloud hardware design. This and another post from my friend Tom Hollingsworth on the Facebook Wedge 100 TOR switch and finally some mixed thoughts about a specific company presenting at Storage Field Day 11 had me pondering about

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In EMEA? Don’t miss the VMUGIT UserCon in Milano!

In EMEA? Don’t miss the VMUGIT UserCon in Milano!

November 1, 2016

If you’re, like me, based in EMEA you should know that besides VMworld in Barcelona there is one event that you should absolutely attend. My friends from the Italian VMUG Chapter are organizing their now traditional VMUG User Conference in Milano on 15th November 2016. While it is a free

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Thoughts on VMware cloud strategy – Wrap Up

Thoughts on VMware cloud strategy – Wrap Up

October 31, 2016

This is the last post in a series of three articles dedicated to VMware cloud strategy following the VMworld Europe 2016 announcements. After reviewing the VMware Cloud on AWS offering and VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture, it’s time to draw a line and have an overall look at VMware Cloud strategy. Let’s

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Scality RING – Object Storage? Yes, but Software-Defined please!

Scality RING – Object Storage? Yes, but Software-Defined please!

October 24, 2016

This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 11. Find out the entire SFD11 content, presentations, articles, presenting companies and delegates here. I had the opportunity to attend Scality’s presentation at Storage Field Day 11, straight from their fantastic HQ looming above the Ferry Building in

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Thoughts on VMware cloud strategy – Part 2: Cross-Cloud Architecture 

Thoughts on VMware cloud strategy – Part 2: Cross-Cloud Architecture 

October 21, 2016

In Part 1 of these series on VMware Cloud strategy we covered the VMware Cloud on AWS offering, this article will focus on the Cross-Cloud Architecture. For the sake of briefness I’ll use the CCA acronym later on (note: this is not an official VMware acronym). I strongly recommend you

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