Author: GeekFluent
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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 with useful and interesting information that I’m more than happy to spend my own personal…
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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. I’m very happy about this. To me the Tech Field Day events have always been…
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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 attended past events. Folks who came from the EMC side (I include myself in this group)…
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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 have their place, but I’ve always found outlines too structured and too limiting. Outlines force…
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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 layer. FlashStack CI is not a product, per se, but a Cisco Validated Design (CVD) or…
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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 Marketing in the IT industry often take a lot of flak. There are several reasons…
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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 of extending appreciation and recognition to those folks who were going above and beyond their…
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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 knowledge sharing. Unlike some other similar programs, Cisco’s own employees are not eligible to be…
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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 have managed to do 128 episodes without having you as a guest before now? Isn’t…
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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 FlashBlade when it was first announced in 2016. At the time I was very excited…