Tag Archives: Announcement

Cisco Announces Champions for 2017

Posted on 2 February 2017 by GeekFluent

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 →

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Pure Storage’s FlashBlade is now GA

Posted on 25 January 2017 by GeekFluent

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 →

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HPE Acquiring SimpliVity for a Bargain Basement Price

Posted on 18 January 2017 by GeekFluent

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 →

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What’s New in VMware vSphere 6.5

Posted on 29 November 2016 by GeekFluent

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 →

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A Closer Look at the All-Flash Isilon, aka Nitro

Posted on 22 November 2016 by GeekFluent

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 →

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Qumulo Core 2.5 is Now GA

Posted on 18 November 2016 by GeekFluent

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 →

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Cisco Announces New Storage Building Blocks — UCS S3260

Posted on 1 November 2016 by GeekFluent

Today, Cisco made some storage-related announcements that may have sounded confusing. On a first read, you might think that Cisco is attempting to re-enter the storage market. Personally, I view their announcement as wanting to ensure that they become — … Continue reading →

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The Name Has Changed, but the Job Remains (Mostly) the Same

Posted on 28 October 2016 by GeekFluent

If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that I’ve been working for a great VAR and systems integrator, Accunet Solutions, for the past 4.5 years or so. Recently, that’s changed. The Announcement

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I’m Going to Storage Field Day 11 #SFD11

Posted on 22 September 2016 by GeekFluent

Guess who’s heading to Storage Field Day 11? OK, you’ve already read the title, so you know it’s me, but that doesn’t make me any less excited about it. It’s an honor to be chosen as a delegate for an … Continue reading →

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Avere Systems Announces New Complete Storage Solution

Posted on 20 September 2016 by GeekFluent

Today, Avere Systems announced its first complete storage solution. Avere is known for their Edge Filers that virtualize NAS systems and/or act as a file-access gateway to object storage. The just-announced C2N solution combines Avere FXT Edge Filers with Avere’s … Continue reading →

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