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Author Archives: GeekFluent
Cisco Champions for 2015 Announced
Last year Cisco joined the ranks of companies running community recognition programs by creating their Cisco Champion program. These programs recognize those people who go above and beyond in their efforts to share knowledge — knowledge of products, techniques, tips … Continue reading
Posted in Data Center, General, Social Media
Tagged Announcement, Champion, Cisco, Cisco Champion, Me, Social Media
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SolidFire Announces New Version of Element OS – Nitrogen
Today, all-Flash storage vendor SolidFire announced the newest version of their array’s operating system, Element OS. In keeping with the “Element” theme, since this new OS version is the seventh generation of the OS, it is named “Nitrogen” — because … Continue reading
Avere Announces Software Updates, Adds Virtual FXT Filer
Today Avere Systems announced an update to the AOS software (version 4.5) that runs on their FXT Edge Filers. The big news in this version is the addition of a Virtual Edge Filer, the vFXT. Avere’s FXT works by placing … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, FXT
Tagged Amazon, Announcement, Avere, Cloud, EC2, FXT, SDS, Software-Defined, Storage, Virtualization
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Two Announcements from SolidFire: Funding and New Hardware Offerings
Today, all-Flash storage vendor SolidFire announced both the completion of a Series D round of funding and the upcoming release of two new hardware products. SolidFire is one of several players in the highly-competitive all-Flash storage array arena. Despite the … Continue reading
VCE Announces Seven New Products in its Largest Launch to Date
Today, in their largest announcement since EMC, Cisco, and VMware jointly announced the company’s formation five years ago, VCE announced seven new additions to their product lineup. These new additions consist of: 3 new Vblock models (System 240, 540, and … Continue reading
GeekFluent Round-up of VMware’s Announcements from Monday of VMworld 2014
I’m here at VMworld 2014 and this year VMware has gone above and beyond. Monday’s opening keynote included more new product announcements than any other VMworld I’ve attended (I’ve been going yearly since 2009). Such a massive flow of info … Continue reading
Posted in VMware
Tagged Announcement, Docker, EVO: Rail, NSX, OpenStack, vCloud, vCloud Air, VHCS, Virtualization, VMware, VMworld, vRealize, VSAN, vSphere, vSphere6.0
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EMC Announces RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines
Today, timed with VMworld, EMC announced a new version of their RecoverPoint data protection / disaster recovery product: RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines. This is the product that came out of what was formerly being called Project Mercury. The new product, … Continue reading
Posted in RecoverPoint
Tagged Announcement, Disaster Recovery, EMC, RecoverPoint, Virtualization, VMworld
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Cisco Expands Storage Networking Porfolio
Today, Cisco announced the expansion of their MDS storage networking portfolio with the addition of three new products. These new products bring increased performance, automation, and ease-of-use to an already great product line. The new products announced are: MDS 9148S … Continue reading
Investors Demonstrate Faith in Avere Systems’ Cloud NAS Offerings
Today Avere Systems announced a renewed emphasis on their Cloud NAS gateway offering. The Cloud NAS allows access to public cloud storage resources at performance similar to on-premises storage, making it a hybrid cloud storage enabler. Personally, I’ve always liked … Continue reading
GeekFluent’s Roundup of the EMC MegaLaunch Announcements
Perhaps you remember EMC’s first big product announcement event under their then-new CMO Jeremy Burton. They called it a “MegaLaunch” and set out to break several world records as part of the event. If you remember 20 people stuffed into … Continue reading
Posted in EMC
Tagged Announcement, EMC, Flash, Isilon, ProtectPoint, Storage, VMAX, XtremIO
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