Monthly Archives: March 2016

Storage Field Day 9 – The High-Level #SFD9 Experience

Posted on 30 March 2016 by GeekFluent

Now that I’ve been back for a while and have had some time to reflect on it, I thought I’d pull together an overall impression of my experience at the recent Storage Field Day Event. I’ll be following up over … Continue reading →

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How I Accidentally Became a Conference Keynote Guest Speaker

Posted on 18 March 2016 by GeekFluent

Over the years, I’ve attended many industry technical conferences. I’ve been an attendee. I held a whiteboard session that was livestreamed over the Internet. I’ve done video interviews. I’ve been booth staff. I’ve given presentations in booths. I’ve been responsible … Continue reading →

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Pure Storage Announces New Solutions and New Architecture

Posted on 14 March 2016 by GeekFluent

Today, Pure Storage made several announcements: new product, new bundled solutions, and a brand-new scale-out architecture. These announcements were timed to coincide with Day One of their first-ever conference event, Pure//Accelerate, which I am attending. [DISCLAIMER: In the interest of … Continue reading →

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Storage Field Day 9 (#SFD9) Preview and How to Follow Along From Home

Posted on 10 March 2016 by GeekFluent

If you weren’t able to guess from my previous post about this, I’m very excited to be returning to Storage Field Day as a delegate for SFD9. If you won’t be there at the event, I figured you might like … Continue reading →

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For Vendors: Handling Negative Social Media Feedback — Three Case Studies and Some Tips

Posted on 8 March 2016 by GeekFluent

If you’re a right-thinking individual, you’ll find it hard to believe that sometimes not everyone agrees with everything I write. In fact, sometimes people have taken exception to things I write. On the rare event when it has happened, it’s … Continue reading →

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Cisco Enters Hyperconverged Market with HyperFlex

Posted on 1 March 2016 by GeekFluent

Today Cisco announced their entry in the Hyperconverged Infrastructure marketplace, a solution called HyperFlex. Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) can be thought of as “Virutalization in a Box”. An HCI solution is one that offers everything needed for server virtualization: compute, memory, network, … Continue reading →

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