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Author Archives: GeekFluent
Off to the Bio-IT World 2016 Expo
I’ll be spending Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday this week at the Bio-IT World 2016 Conference and Expo at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston. Mostly, I’ll be spending my time on the “Expo” side of things. I’ll be doing … Continue reading
Storage Field Day 9 – The High-Level #SFD9 Experience
Now that I’ve been back for a while and have had some time to reflect on it, I thought I’d pull together an overall impression of my experience at the recent Storage Field Day Event. I’ll be following up over … Continue reading
How I Accidentally Became a Conference Keynote Guest Speaker
Over the years, I’ve attended many industry technical conferences. I’ve been an attendee. I held a whiteboard session that was livestreamed over the Internet. I’ve done video interviews. I’ve been booth staff. I’ve given presentations in booths. I’ve been responsible … Continue reading
Posted in Pure Storage
Tagged BINGO, Buzzword Bingo, Buzzwords, Community, Pure Storage, Storage
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Pure Storage Announces New Solutions and New Architecture
Today, Pure Storage made several announcements: new product, new bundled solutions, and a brand-new scale-out architecture. These announcements were timed to coincide with Day One of their first-ever conference event, Pure//Accelerate, which I am attending. [DISCLAIMER: In the interest of … Continue reading
Posted in Pure Storage
Tagged Announcement, Flash, FlashArray//m, FlashBlade, FlashStack, Pure Storage, Storage
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Storage Field Day 9 (#SFD9) Preview and How to Follow Along From Home
If you weren’t able to guess from my previous post about this, I’m very excited to be returning to Storage Field Day as a delegate for SFD9. If you won’t be there at the event, I figured you might like … Continue reading
For Vendors: Handling Negative Social Media Feedback — Three Case Studies and Some Tips
If you’re a right-thinking individual, you’ll find it hard to believe that sometimes not everyone agrees with everything I write. In fact, sometimes people have taken exception to things I write. On the rare event when it has happened, it’s … Continue reading
Cisco Enters Hyperconverged Market with HyperFlex
Today Cisco announced their entry in the Hyperconverged Infrastructure marketplace, a solution called HyperFlex. Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) can be thought of as “Virutalization in a Box”. An HCI solution is one that offers everything needed for server virtualization: compute, memory, network, … Continue reading
Posted in Converged Infrastructure
Tagged Announcement, Cisco, Hyperconverged, HyperFlex, SpringPath, UCS, Virtualization, VMware
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What’s New in Isilon OneFS 8.0
You may remember that back in November EMC announced new features coming to Isilon. Most of the message focused on the IsilonSD Edge virtual appliance, but a lot of the rest had to do with “OneFS.NEXT” (which we all expected … Continue reading
VMware Announces vExperts for 2016
Today, VMware announced the list of vExpert recipients for 2016. The VMware vExpert program recognizes those who have gone above and beyond their normal job description in sharing the messaging, knowledge, and “how to” of virtualization in general and VMware … Continue reading
