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Author Archives: GeekFluent
An Open Letter to Influence Marketers
[UPDATE: I’ve posted an Addendum to this Open Letter. After you read this, be sure to check that out, too.] Dear Vendor Marketers, I love being invited to your technical briefings. I can’t emphasize this enough. They’re awesome. They’re filled … Continue reading
Confirmed: I’ll be a Delegate at Storage Field Day 12 (#SFD12)
A number of things had my status for this event up in the air for a little bit, but I’m very happy to announce that I am now officially confirmed as a Delegate at Storage Field Day 12 next week. … Continue reading
Look Who’s Coming to Dell EMC World 2017
It’s official. I’ll be attending Dell EMC World 2017. I’ve been invited to attend on a Media/Analyst pass. Naturally, I’m excited and looking forward to it. This conference seems to be causing a small amount of confusion for folks who’ve … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged Analyst, Conference, Dell, Dell EMC, Dell EMC World, EMC, EMC World, Me, Media
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How I’m Using a Mind Map to Keep Track of My Job Search
Folks who’ve known me a while will know I’m a big fan of mind maps. A mind map is a diagram that helps to organize information visually. I know a lot of folks like outlines, and I’ll grant that they … Continue reading
Cisco and Pure Announce FlashStack – a Joint CI Solution
Last week, Cisco and Pure Storage announced FlashStack. FlashStack is a jointly-developed Converged Infrastructure (CI) solution bundle / reference architecture. The FlashStack solution uses Cisco network and compute hardware, Pure Storage storage hardware, and VMware for the hypervisor and virtualization … Continue reading
Posted in Converged Infrastructure
Tagged Announcement, CI, Cisco, Converged, Pure Storage, Storage, VMware
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Things Marketers Need to Just STOP Doing
In general, Marketing is a Good ThingTM. It’s how we learn about new products. It’s where we get info on how to differentiate between products. It can help us decide a particular product’s suitability for specific purposes. The folks in … Continue reading
VMware Announces vExperts for 2017
Yesterday, VMware announced their list of 2017 vExperts. The vExpert program is VMware’s way of recognizing those people who have made valuable contributions to the overall VMware and virtualization community. The program was started several years ago as a way … Continue reading
Cisco Announces Champions for 2017
Today, Cisco started sending out “Welcome” emails to folks they’ve named as Cisco Champions for 2017. The Cisco Champions program is a community recognition program. It’s intended to recognize people who are making valuable contributions to the IT community through … Continue reading
My Interview with Geek Whisperers on Being a Technical Generalist
I had the honor (and fun) of being the guest on the most recent episode of the Geek Whisperers podcast (Episode 129). I know this will cause my long-time readers to immediately ask two questions: How is it, exactly, that these folks … Continue reading
Pure Storage’s FlashBlade is now GA
Today, Pure Storage, an All-Flash storage vendor, announced the General Availability (GA) of their FlashBlade, a scalable, All-Flash, NFS storage platform, as well as the GA of version 1.2 of Elasticity, the software that runs the FlashBlade. I wrote about … Continue reading
Posted in Pure Storage
Tagged Announcement, Flash, FlashBlade, Pure Storage, Storage
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