Tag: Announcement

  • You Can Find Me in the Cloud with HubStor

    You Can Find Me in the Cloud with HubStor

    It’s funny. The last thing I posted here was on January 1st. In it, I mentioned that 2019 had been a hard year. How foolish I was before 2020 came into its own… In the midst of whatever all of 2020 will continue to bring, I’m pleased to be able to report some good news.…

  • Time to Retire the #HireDaveNow Hashtag

    Time to Retire the #HireDaveNow Hashtag

    You read that right. After what felt like a very long job search (to be fair it only felt that way because it was, in fact, very long), I no longer need to use the #HireDaveNow hashtag. This frees me up to focus on other Dave-related hashtags, like the very timely #WriteInDave2020, the crowd favorite…

  • Summary of the Announcements From CommvaultGO 2018

    Summary of the Announcements From CommvaultGO 2018

    I’m at the CommvaultGO conference, and the new announcements are coming out at a rapid-fire pace. It’s hard enough to keep track of everything while I’m here and can ask questions in real time — I can only imagine how difficult it is trying to keep track if you’re not here. To make it easier,…

  • Cisco Names Champions for 2018

    Cisco Names Champions for 2018

    At the end of last last week, Cisco sent out the official “Welcome” emails to the folks they’ve named as Cisco Champions for 2018. What are Cisco Champions exactly? you might ask. It’s a fair question, I’ll admit. Started in 2014, the Cisco Champion program is a way for Cisco to recognize those members of…

  • Microsoft Enters Agreement to Purchase Avere Systems

    Microsoft Enters Agreement to Purchase Avere Systems

    Yesterday, Microsoft announced that it had entered into an agreement to purchase Avere Systems, a maker of software and hardware appliances that can perform filesystem virtualization, file-to-object gateway services, and allow customers to easily connect their onsite storage to public cloud storage. If you’re a long-time reader of this blog, you’ll know that I’ve been…

  • VMware Names First vExpert Cloud Recipients

    VMware Names First vExpert Cloud Recipients

    On Friday, VMware announced the recipients of their first-ever vExpert Cloud designation. This will be called “vExpert Cloud 2017”. This is the third specialization added to the long-running vExpert program, after vExpert VSAN and vExpert NSX. Already holding a current vExpert designation is a prerequisite for any of the specialty vExpert programs. What is a…

  • Aparavi Emerges From Stealth with an SaaS Solution for a Multi-Cloud World

    Aparavi Emerges From Stealth with an SaaS Solution for a Multi-Cloud World

    Yesterday, Aparavi, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) start-up company, emerged from stealth with a SaaS offering for managing long-term data retention in a multi-cloud world. The company says their name is derived from the Latin word apparare which means “to prepare”. Now, I’ve never had any formal training in Latin, but my own research suggests that apparare…

  • Zadara Storage Offers Hurricane Relief to Business Hit by Harvey, Irma, or Maria

    Zadara Storage Offers Hurricane Relief to Business Hit by Harvey, Irma, or Maria

    Zadara Storage, a Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) start-up company, is offering disaster relief to businesses affected by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, or Maria. The relief Zadara is offering comes in the form of up to 1PB of free data storage for six months. This storage can be installed on-site, in the Cloud, or as a hybrid model. (I’m…

  • Amazon Adds Per-Second Billing for Some EC2 Instances

    Amazon Adds Per-Second Billing for Some EC2 Instances

    Amazon’s per-second billing is now available for some types of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. Announced back in September, this billing model change went into effect on 2 October. Amazon Web Services (AWS) first launched their EC2 service in 2006. The success of AWS and cloud computing in general proves that there are uses for…

  • Cisco Announces Intention to Acquire Springpath

    On Monday, Cisco ended over a year of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) speculation and announced their intent to acquire Springpath. In this case, instead of Cisco the networking company, we’re looking at Cisco the manufacturer of the Unified Computing System (UCS) compute platform. Springpath makes hyperconvergence software. Cisco has been running that software — rebranded as…