Dear readers, although it was never officially announced, those who follow me know that for the past few years, I’ve been conducting the bulk of my online content creation activities through TECHunplugged, a company I co-own. In fact, all of the enterprise IT content is now created exclusively over there.
If you’ve watched the Apple event, you may have noticed that Apple M1 Silicon is being expanded to include two new chips, the M1 Pro and the M1 Max. Apple has an official press release about it, and no doubt that esteemed industry analysts will soon be sharing their comments
Shower is one of those places where I get a break from everyday’s life distractions and from the digital world as well. Putting my head under a hot stream of water kind of makes it work, and ideas, sometimes crazy, emerge afterwards. After today’s thoughts I recorded a video –
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
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’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 Dell Technologies, who is also behind the fantastic #DellLuminaries community / project. The Impact of
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
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 in the community had been talking (and writing) highly of them after they had presented
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
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