Author Archives: GeekFluent

SimpliVity and Lenovo Announce Hyperconverged Partnership

Posted on 24 August 2015 by GeekFluent

Last week, SimpliVity, a leader in the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) space, announced that their OmniStack HCI solution will be available on Lenovo hardware. Prior to this announcement, the SimpliVity HCI solution could be deployed in two ways: by using the … Continue reading →

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Pure Storage Files Intent to IPO

Posted on 12 August 2015 by GeekFluent

Today, Pure Storage announced that it had filed Form S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Form S-1 is essentially a proposal to create an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of publicly-traded shares of stock. Pure Storage intends to … Continue reading →

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Pure Storage Announces New Program, New Hardware, New Software Services

Posted on 1 June 2015 by GeekFluent

Today, Pure Storage, an all-Flash array vendor I’ve written about before, made three major announcements covering a new program for customers, new hardware, and new management software. Specifically, they announced: Evergreen Storage The FlashArray//m family (also called FA//m) Pure1 Management … Continue reading →

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Qumulo Announces New High-Density Storage Node

Posted on 13 April 2015 by GeekFluent

Less than one month after emerging from stealth, storage startup Qumulo announced the availability of a new high-capacity storage node today. The announcement was timed with Qumulo’s attendance at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show. Qumulo makes a data-aware … Continue reading →

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My Video Interview at VMware PEX

Posted on 31 March 2015 by GeekFluent

While I was at the VMware Partner Exchange conference in February, I had the pleasure of running into Josh Atwell. Josh asked if I wanted to be interviewed in the SolidFire booth. Naturally, I said yes, and asked what aspects … Continue reading →

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EMC World 2015 Discount Code Giveaway

Posted on 26 March 2015 by GeekFluent

As in past years, EMC has given members of the EMC Elect community registration codes good for a $150 discount on the cost of this year’s EMC World registration. Thanks to the generosity of my fellow EMC Elect members Hrvoje … Continue reading →

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Qumulo Comes Out of Stealth Offering Data-Aware Scale-Out NAS

Posted on 16 March 2015 by GeekFluent

I’ve let several people know that I’m traveling today, and I even told some folks that I was in Seattle, but it wasn’t until today that I can go public on why I’m here. Today, storage startup Qumulo came out … Continue reading →

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SimpliVity Closes $175 Million D Round of Funding

Posted on 11 March 2015 by GeekFluent

Yesterday, hyperconverged infrastructure vendor SimpliVity announced that they had raised $175 Million in series D funding. Waypoint Captial led the round, with previous investors Accel Partners, Charles River Ventures, DFJ Growth, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (KPCB), and Meritech Capital … Continue reading →

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Top VMware and Virtualization Blog Survey 2015

Posted on 3 March 2015 by GeekFluent

The blog vSphere-land is holding its annual contest / voting survey for the top 50 VMware- and virtualization-related blogs of 2015. All blogs listed on the vLaunchPad site are eligible. This blog was added to the vLaunchPad after the nominations … Continue reading →

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SolidFire Announces New Hardware Node, FlashForward Guarantees, and Software-Only Offering

Posted on 26 February 2015 by GeekFluent

Yesterday, SolidFire released a hat-trick of announcements: The addition of a new hardware node to its all-Flash, scale-out storage platform The FlashForward program — a combination of a platform compatibility guarantee and an unlimited drive wear guarantee ElementX — the … Continue reading →

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