Tag Archives: Announcement

EMC Announces New Mid-Range Unified Storage Platform – Unity

Posted on 2 May 2016 by GeekFluent

Today, at EMC World, EMC announced their new mid-range unified storage platform, called Unity. Some time last summer, I remember thinking that it was weird that we hadn’t seen a “Mega-Launch” event announcement from EMC. VNX2 seemed due for a … Continue reading →

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Cohesity Announces Cloud Integration for Their Storage Platform

Posted on 12 April 2016 by GeekFluent

[DISCLOSURE: Cohesity was one of the sponsors of the Storage Field Day 9 event (SFD9) that I was a delegate for. As such, they helped to pay for my travel, accommodations, and meals for that event. There was no requirement or … Continue reading →

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Qumulo Adds Erasure Coding, Predictive Analytics, and Three New Hardware Models

Posted on 12 April 2016 by GeekFluent

Today, Qumulo, a scale-out NAS vendor, announced a major new version of their operating environment, Qumulo Core 2.0, and three new hardware models. Qumulo is hybrid storage, meaning each node has both Flash and spinning disks. The Flash layer (in … Continue reading →

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SimpliVity Announces OmniStack 3.5 and OmniView

Posted on 5 April 2016 by GeekFluent

Today, SimpliVity announced version 3.5 of their OmniStack Data Virtualization Platform and a new predictive analytics offering called OmniView. Introduction to SimpliVity Founded in 2009 with a mission to simplify IT infrastructure, SimpliVity is one of the “Names” in the hyperconverged … Continue reading →

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Pure Storage Announces New Solutions and New Architecture

Posted on 14 March 2016 by GeekFluent

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 →

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Cisco Enters Hyperconverged Market with HyperFlex

Posted on 1 March 2016 by GeekFluent

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 →

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VMware Announces vExperts for 2016

Posted on 5 February 2016 by GeekFluent

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 →

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Cisco Announces Champions for 2016

Posted on 1 February 2016 by GeekFluent

On Friday last week, Cisco started sending out email welcoming those people who have been selected to receive the Cisco Champion designation for 2016. For those of you not familiar with it, Cisco Champion is Cisco’s community recognition program. Its … Continue reading →

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Confirmed for Storage Day 9 (#SFD9)

Posted on 22 January 2016 by GeekFluent

You may remember that I made my Tech Field Day debut last year at Storage Field Day 7. If you followed any of the video stream during, or any of the recordings afterwards, you’ll have some sense of how much … Continue reading →

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Nutanix Files Intent to IPO

Posted on 23 December 2015 by GeekFluent

Yesterday, Nutanix announced that it had filed Form S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Form S-1 is what companies use to proposed creating an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of publicly-traded shares of stock. Nutanix intends to list … Continue reading →

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