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Author Archives: GeekFluent
EMC Elect for 2014 Announced
Today EMC announced the “2014 edition” of their community recognition program, EMC Elect. To borrow from the EMC Elect Community page, EMC Elect is a community-driven recognition. Candidates for this recognition have displayed three key characteristics: Engagement — Members are … Continue reading
Most-Read GeekFluent Posts of 2013
I love metrics. OK, that’s not precisely true. I love the things we can learn from metrics, and the process of discovering that learning. In and of themselves, the metrics are nothing but numbers, and by themselves numbers just aren’t … Continue reading
Use Your Windows Laptop as an Isilon Console Terminal
[NOTE: I did not develop this process. I’ve simply expanded on instructions I originally received in email from my colleague, Andrew Boggs. Thanks to Andrew for the tip.] If you’re like me, you have a company-issued Windows laptop. If you, … Continue reading
Cisco Launches Champions Program for 2013
Yesterday, Cisco began sending email notifications to the people they’re inviting to participate in the Cisco Champions Program. This program’s purpose is “to create and nurture a network of people who are passionate about Cisco and enjoy sharing their knowledge, … Continue reading
Posted in Data Center, General
Tagged Announcement, Champion, Cisco, Cisco Champion, Community, Data Center, Me
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EMC’s XtremIO Finally Available – Worth the Wait
Today, EMC announced the General Availability of XtremIO, their purpose-built all-Flash array. The announcement comes amid an unprecedented storm of pre-launch hyperbole from several vendors (as one might expect, very much “pro-” from EMC and rather “anti-” from some of … Continue reading
Avere Announces Cloud NAS Product
Today, at the Amazon AWS re:Invent show, Avere Systems announced new capabilities for their FXT Edge Filer. The new offering, Cloud NAS, offers support for both Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Glacier. Support for other services is … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, FXT
Tagged Amazon, Announcement, Avere, Cleversafe, Cloud, Glacier, S3, Storage
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VCE Announces New Vblock Offerings
Today, VCE announced new additions to their Vblock converged infrastructure product line. The offerings announced include the Vblock Model 340, two new specialized configurations for high-IO workloads, and version 2.5 the VCE Vision Intelligent Operations management software.
Posted in VCE
Tagged Announcement, Cisco, EMC, UCS, Vblock, VCE, Vision, VMware, VNX, vSphere5.5, XtremIO, XtremSW
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Isilon and Data Centers and Forklifts, Oh My!
Most of my blog posts are long and text-heavy. This one is short on text and mostly photos… Over the course of my career, I’ve been in a lot of different data centers. Some have been in interesting places, strange … Continue reading
Front Row at the EMC Speed 2 Lead Event
If you follow the storage industry at all, you know that today EMC is holding their “Speed 2 Lead” event. To some, this event is also known as “Mega-Launch III”. During the event, EMC is making several storage product announcements … Continue reading
EMC Expands VSPEX Offerings
Today EMC announced new offerings in its VSPEX program. VSPEX is EMC’s collection of pre-validated reference architectures, delivered by their channel partners. VSPEX provides a middle-ground. It offers greater speed for deployment than building and testing your own solution from … Continue reading
