Today we were briefed at Cisco Live Europe 2018 in Barcelona about the latest improvements done on the Cisco HyperFlex platform. My readers may know that I have covered HyperFlex first in 2016, then in 2017, both times during Cisco Live Europe. These posts may have been controversial because I
It is with great pleasure that I will join again in 2018 the dear friends at Tech Field Day for their traditional Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe event. After the last two editions taking place in Berlin, we will leave the typical cold & gloomy Mitteleuropäischer Winter for hopefully
When determining storage capacity, performance and availability requirements for their mission-critical systems, most if not all organisations try to solve the equation, once presented with alternatives, by looking primarily at pricing and attempting to juice out the best for what they can afford or be prepared to pay. While this
When it comes to design, making things elaborate and complicated is not necessarily the best way to go. Keeping things simple while focusing on delivering outcomes that match the customer expectations (if not exceeding them) is what matters. I was once again in beautiful Silicon Valley in November 2017 at Storage
This article has been inspired by my upcoming participating in the Commvault GO Conference in Washington D.C. on the 6th and 7th of November 2017 as a part of the Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO event. Commvault pride themselves in being a Data Management company, so I’ve been
This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 14 event and the Commvault GO conference. Find out the entire SFD14 content, presentations, articles, presenting companies and delegates here. For Commvault GO, look here! It looks like November is going to be a very busy time
This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 13 and the Pure Storage Accelerate conferences. Find out the entire SFD13 content, presentations, articles, presenting companies and delegates here. Redefining X-IO Axellio I’ve written about X-IO and Axellio before flying to Storage Field Day 13 and
This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 13 and the Pure Storage Accelerate conferences. I had the incredible chance to attend two events last week in the United States: Storage Field Day Exclusive at Pure Accelerate 2017 (in San Francisco), followed by three full
This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 13 and the Pure Storage Accelerate conferences. Find out the entire SFD13 content, presentations, articles, presenting companies and delegates here. What is the SNIA? Is it a brand? Is it the acronym for the Super Network Integrated
This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 13 and the Pure Storage Accelerate conferences. Find out the entire SFD13 content, presentations, articles, presenting companies and delegates here. This primer article for Storage Field Day 13 will cover Dell EMC Technologies. Because we do not
This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 13 and the Pure Storage Accelerate conferences. Find out the entire SFD13 content, presentations, articles, presenting companies and delegates here. X-IO is a company working in the storage field that I had never heard about until today.
This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 13 and the Pure Storage Accelerate conferences. Find out the entire SFD13 content, presentations, articles, presenting companies and delegates here. I first met the fine folks at Exablox at Storage Field Day 10 in May 2016, however
This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 13 and the Pure Storage Accelerate conferences. Find out the entire SFD13 content, presentations, articles, presenting companies and delegates here. As the title says, I’m in for a very special week in June! I have the pleasure
Again I’m back from Cisco Live and in this 2017 edition, we can be grateful that the focus was predominantly on security. But how do security and IoT play hand-in-hand? And what the hell is IoT? It refers to the « Internet of Things » acronym, i.e. a broad array of commodity devices/sensors
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