Tag: Announcement

  • Turbonomic Announces Version 5.9, Adds Support for Hybrid Cloud

    Turbonomic Announces Version 5.9, Adds Support for Hybrid Cloud

    Today Turbonomic announced  a new release of their autonomic management suite, version 5.9. The new version adds new capabilities, expanding their automated management into hybrid cloud environments, as well as a number of performance enhancements. With this release, Turbonomic is furthering their mission: to enable their customers to automate and control any workload, on any…

  • Voting for Top vBlog 2017 is Open — Closes 30 June

    Voting for Top vBlog 2017 is Open — Closes 30 June

    It’s that time of year again when you’re seeing lots of “Vote for Me!” blog posts and tweets. This is not one of those posts. Yes, once again, Eric Seibert is running voting for the Top vBlog of 2017 on his really great blog vSphere-Land. (If it’s not already in whatever you’ve moved to since Google…

  • Job Search Successful — I’m Headed to the Cloud

    First things first: I want to thank everyone who has followed along and supported me during the recent job search. It’s meant a lot to me to know that I was never really alone during it. A special thank you to all of you who contacted me and acted as “connectors”, connecting me to people,…

  • Virtustream Launches Cloud Offering Designed for Healthcare

    Virtustream Launches Cloud Offering Designed for Healthcare

    Today, at Dell EMC World, Virtustream — the enterprise-class cloud provider company in the Dell Technologies family of businesses — announced that they are offering a new service called Virtustream Healthcare Cloud. This service provides cloud-based hosting of mission-critical healthcare platforms and applications in an environment that is completely compliant with all Health Insurance Portability…

  • Summary of Monday’s Announcements at Dell EMC World 2017

    As you might have expected from a conference that was essentially created by combining two huge tech events (Dell World and EMC World), there were a large number of announcements made on the first day of Dell EMC World 2017. To help you manage the influx of so much information, this post will attempt to…

  • NetApp Names Members of 2017 NetApp United Program

    NetApp Names Members of 2017 NetApp United Program

    NetApp has announced the first members of their new community recognition program, called NetApp United. I’m proud to announce that I’m one of those 111 people. What makes a good candidate for the NetApp United program? According to the application announcement, NetApp was looking for technology enthusiasts who: Have a social media presence Have overall…

  • Pure Storage Announces NVMe DirectFlash and New FlashArray Model

    Pure Storage Announces NVMe DirectFlash and New FlashArray Model

    Today Pure Storage, known for their All-Flash Storage arrays, announced their next Big ThingTM, DirectFlash, as well as a new FlashArray model. DirectFlash is a combination of NVMe hardware and the software to manage it (more details on that below). The new array model, the FlashArray//X, uses exclusively DirectFlash as the storage medium. A Brief…

  • Qumulo Secures Round C Prime Funding – My Conversation with Bill Richter

    Qumulo Secures Round C Prime Funding – My Conversation with Bill Richter

    Today, Qumulo, vendor of the software-defined scale-out storage platform Qumulo Core, announced the completion a funding round of $30 Million. This C Prime round of funding brings the total amount invested in Qumulo to date to $130 Million. This new funding round was led by Northern Light Venture Capital and other first-time investors in Qumulo.…

  • Cisco and Pure Announce FlashStack – a Joint CI Solution

    Cisco and Pure Announce FlashStack – a Joint CI Solution

    Last week, Cisco and Pure Storage announced FlashStack. FlashStack is a jointly-developed Converged Infrastructure (CI) solution bundle / reference architecture. The FlashStack solution uses Cisco network and compute hardware, Pure Storage storage hardware, and VMware for the hypervisor and virtualization layer. FlashStack CI is not a product, per se, but a Cisco Validated Design (CVD) or…

  • VMware Announces vExperts for 2017

    VMware Announces vExperts for 2017

    Yesterday, VMware announced their list of 2017 vExperts. The vExpert program is VMware’s way of recognizing those people who have made valuable contributions to the overall VMware and virtualization community. The program was started several years ago as a way of extending appreciation and recognition to those folks who were going above and beyond their…