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,
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
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
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.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 10 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 1 year old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 1 year old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 1 year old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 1 year old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 1 year old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 2 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.With the radical transformation of the data center storage landscape, and the transition from traditional block/file storage towards software-based / software-defined solutions, plus the advent of object storage and cloud integration, the bastion of traditional
This content is 2 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Security 101: In a world that is more and more connected, where our personal data and identity are stored in many places, it’s our duty to focus on security and do our best to protect