Monthly Archives: October 2017

VMware Names First vExpert Cloud Recipients

Posted on 30 October 2017 by GeekFluent

On Friday, VMware announced the recipients of their first-ever vExpert Cloud designation. This will be called “vExpert Cloud 2017”. This is the third specialization added to the long-running vExpert program, after vExpert VSAN and vExpert NSX. Already holding a current … Continue reading →

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Aparavi Emerges From Stealth with an SaaS Solution for a Multi-Cloud World

Posted on 26 October 2017 by GeekFluent

Yesterday, Aparavi, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) start-up company, emerged from stealth with a SaaS offering for managing long-term data retention in a multi-cloud world. The company says their name is derived from the Latin word apparare which means “to prepare”. Now, … Continue reading →

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Zadara Storage Offers Hurricane Relief to Business Hit by Harvey, Irma, or Maria

Posted on 23 October 2017 by GeekFluent

Zadara Storage, a Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) start-up company, is offering disaster relief to businesses affected by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, or Maria. The relief Zadara is offering comes in the form of up to 1PB of free data storage for six months. … Continue reading →

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Amazon Adds Per-Second Billing for Some EC2 Instances

Posted on 11 October 2017 by GeekFluent

Amazon’s per-second billing is now available for some types of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. Announced back in September, this billing model change went into effect on 2 October. Amazon Web Services (AWS) first launched their EC2 service in 2006. … Continue reading →

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