Category: Data Center
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Summary of the Announcements From CommvaultGO 2018
I’m at the CommvaultGO conference, and the new announcements are coming out at a rapid-fire pace. It’s hard enough to keep track of everything while I’m here and can ask questions in real time — I can only imagine how difficult it is trying to keep track if you’re not here. To make it easier,…
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Heading to Commvault GO 2018 with Tech Field Day
It’s been a while (too long, I know…) since I’ve posted anything, but this seemed the perfect excuse to jump back into things. Next week, I’m heading down to Nashville for the Commvault GO 2018 conference. I’ll be there as part of the Tech Field Day contingent. I’ll be attending as an independent analyst, which means…
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Panel Discussion of Abandonware (in an IoT Context)
During the past couple years, the good folks over at Gestalt IT have been working to find more ways to make sure that the Tech Field Day delegates feel that their time has been valued and put to good use. One of the ways they’ve been doing that is to use some of the down…
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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…
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Turbonmic Support for AWS and Kubernetes
[DISCLAIMER: Turbonomic is, in fact, a sponsor of this blog. That said, there was no requirement or even request from them that I write this post. I’m writing it because it’s news that I think folks will find useful. No one from Turbonomic has contributed to, or reviewed the contents of this post.] If you’ve been…
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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…
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Farewell, VMTurbo. Welcome, Turbonomic!
If you’re a regular reader, you know I’ve been a fan of VMTurbo from the start. Well, as of a week ago, VMTurbo is no more. Don’t worry — they haven’t gone away, they’ve changed their name to Turbonomic, to rebrand themselves in the IT marketspace. The name change comes in three parts. First, they…
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VMTurbo Releases Operations Manager version 5.3
This week, VMTurbo released version 5.3 of their Operations Manager monitoring / management / automation / Quality of Service (QoS) tool. Yes, I’ll admit that previous sentence is a little confusing, but Operations Manager has so many features and capabilities packed into it that it defies easy classification. For those who aren’t familiar with VMTurbo…
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EMC Announces Service Assurance Suite 9.3
Today, EMC announced the upcoming release of version 9.3 of their Service Assurance Suite. The Service Assurance Suite assists with monitoring, root-cause analysis and management of solutions in the data center.