I’ve been pretty lucky at avoiding COVID during most of 2020. What at first seemed to be a distant thing, like the SARS epidemic of the 2000’s, turned out later on to become a very real threat. Today, we’re getting a bit personal here on the blog. After all, those
It’s been a while since I blogged on kamshin.com – especially since I’ve decided that all technical / industry news content would move over to TECHunplugged.io for consistency / audience reasons. But enough self-flagellation, and onto this burning topic (no pun intented). Those of you who follow me on Twitter
This content is 1 year old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 1 year old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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.
This content is 2 years 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 2 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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,
This content is 2 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 2 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 3 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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