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 –
This content is 6 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 10 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.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
This content is 2 years 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 2 years 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 4 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 4 years 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 4 years 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 5 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