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Author Archives: GeekFluent
HPE Acquiring SimpliVity for a Bargain Basement Price
Yesterday, Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that they had entered into an agreement to acquire hyperconverged infrastructure vendor SimpliVity for $650 Million in cash. This number comes in significantly lower than the rumors that had been going around, valuing SimpliVity as … Continue reading
Posted in SimpliVity
Tagged Acquisition, Announcement, HCI, HPE, Hyperconverged, SimpliVity
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Job Search Mode: Engaged!
After five very happy years, I find myself back on the job market. Instead of attempting to take on a new job search entirely on my own (which is exactly what I would have done in the past), I’m looking to … Continue reading
State of the Blog Report: 2016
New Year’s Day. Today we find ourselves breathing a sigh of relief that we actually made it through the year that was 2016. It’s also a time to look forward with a mixture of hope and dread at the year … Continue reading
Report on GeekFluent’s Predictions for 2016 — How’d I Do?
Last year I did my first “Predictions for Next Year” post. I see a lot of these kinds of posts near the end of the year. I wanted to take things a step further and look back to see how … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged Hyperconverged, Predictions, Report Card, Security, Social Media, Storage
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Turbonmic Support for AWS and Kubernetes
[DISCLAIMER: Turbonomic is, in fact, a sponsor of this blog. That said, there was no requirement or even request from them that I write this post. I’m writing it because it’s news that I think folks will find useful. No one … Continue reading
What’s New in VMware vSphere 6.5
The big virtualization news from the past week or so was definitely the release and General Availability of VMware vSphere version 6.5, available for download now. New features include: Improvements to vCenter Server 6.5 Transition to Web Client-only Improved host … Continue reading
A Closer Look at the All-Flash Isilon, aka Nitro
On 19 October, Dell EMC made an announcement about the All-Flash Isilon nodes. This product line has been code-named “Project Nitro”. The announcement was timed to occur during the first-ever Dell EMC World event. I’ll walk through what was announced, … Continue reading
Qumulo Core 2.5 is Now GA
On 15 November, Qumulo announced the availability of version 2.5 of their Qumulo Core software layer for their scale-out NAS platform. I’ve been involved with Qumulo since they came out of stealth approximately 18 months ago — I actually helped … Continue reading
10 November “Caption This” Contest Winners
My 10 November #CaptionThisThursday Tweet was this: #CaptionThisThursday #CTT Caption This: pic.twitter.com/VwFyCAbORt — Dave Henry (@davemhenry) November 10, 2016 The best responses (as judged by me) are below.
Posted in Experiments
Tagged #CaptionThisThursday, #CTT, Caption This, Contest, Social Media, Twitter
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