Tag: Announcement

  • Cisco Announces Champions for 2017

    Cisco Announces Champions for 2017

    Today, Cisco started sending out “Welcome” emails to folks they’ve named as Cisco Champions for 2017. The Cisco Champions program is a community recognition program. It’s intended to recognize people who are making valuable contributions to the IT community through knowledge sharing. Unlike some other similar programs, Cisco’s own employees are not eligible to be…

  • Pure Storage’s FlashBlade is now GA

    Pure Storage’s FlashBlade is now GA

    Today, Pure Storage, an All-Flash storage vendor, announced the General Availability (GA) of their FlashBlade, a scalable, All-Flash, NFS storage platform, as well as the GA of version 1.2 of Elasticity, the software that runs the FlashBlade. I wrote about FlashBlade when it was first announced in 2016. At the time I was very excited…

  • HPE Acquiring SimpliVity for a Bargain Basement Price

    HPE Acquiring SimpliVity for a Bargain Basement Price

    Yesterday, Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that they had entered into an agreement to acquire hyperconverged infrastructure vendor SimpliVity for $650 Million in cash. This number comes in significantly lower than the rumors that had been going around, valuing SimpliVity as an acquisition target at as high as $3.9 Billion. Long-time readers already know I’m a…

  • What’s New in VMware vSphere 6.5

    The big virtualization news from the past week or so was definitely the release and General Availability of VMware vSphere version 6.5, available for download now. New features include: Improvements to vCenter Server 6.5 Transition to Web Client-only Improved host management Enhancements to VMware Tools vRealize Operations Manager updated to 6.4 Enhancements to the API,…

  • A Closer Look at the All-Flash Isilon, aka Nitro

    A Closer Look at the All-Flash Isilon, aka Nitro

    On 19 October, Dell EMC made an announcement about the All-Flash Isilon nodes. This product line has been code-named “Project Nitro”. The announcement was timed to occur during the first-ever Dell EMC World event. I’ll walk through what was announced, and then provide additional details.

  • Qumulo Core 2.5 is Now GA

    Qumulo Core 2.5 is Now GA

    On 15 November, Qumulo announced the availability of version 2.5 of their Qumulo Core software layer for their scale-out NAS platform. I’ve been involved with Qumulo since they came out of stealth approximately 18 months ago — I actually helped sell a Qumulo cluster to one of our customers while Qumulo was still operating in…

  • Cisco Announces New Storage Building Blocks — UCS S3260

    Cisco Announces New Storage Building Blocks — UCS S3260

    Today, Cisco made some storage-related announcements that may have sounded confusing. On a first read, you might think that Cisco is attempting to re-enter the storage market. Personally, I view their announcement as wanting to ensure that they become — and remain — “storage adjacent”… I’ll walk through things and hopefully clear up any confusion…

  • The Name Has Changed, but the Job Remains (Mostly) the Same

    The Name Has Changed, but the Job Remains (Mostly) the Same

    If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that I’ve been working for a great VAR and systems integrator, Accunet Solutions, for the past 4.5 years or so. Recently, that’s changed. The Announcement

  • I’m Going to Storage Field Day 11 #SFD11

    I’m Going to Storage Field Day 11 #SFD11

    Guess who’s heading to Storage Field Day 11? OK, you’ve already read the title, so you know it’s me, but that doesn’t make me any less excited about it. It’s an honor to be chosen as a delegate for an event like this. This will be my third time as a Storage Field Day delegate,…

  • Avere Systems Announces New Complete Storage Solution

    Today, Avere Systems announced its first complete storage solution. Avere is known for their Edge Filers that virtualize NAS systems and/or act as a file-access gateway to object storage. The just-announced C2N solution combines Avere FXT Edge Filers with Avere’s own new scale-out object storage platform. This combination allows the C2N to be used as…