Tag Archives: Cloud

You Can Find Me in the Cloud with HubStor

Posted on 15 September 2020 by GeekFluent

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 … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Enters Agreement to Purchase Avere Systems

Posted on 4 January 2018 by GeekFluent

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 … Continue reading →

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The Virtustream MicroVM

Posted on 2 January 2018 by GeekFluent

Very soon after I joined Virtustream, I quickly realized that one piece of Virtustream technology in particular was something that was causing confusion for customers, prospects, and even employees — especially me as our group’s FNG (you know, the group’s New … Continue reading →

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VMware Names First vExpert Cloud Recipients

Posted on 30 October 2017 by GeekFluent

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 26 October 2017 by GeekFluent

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, … Continue reading →

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Amazon Adds Per-Second Billing for Some EC2 Instances

Posted on 11 October 2017 by GeekFluent

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. … Continue reading →

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Turbonomic Announces Version 5.9, Adds Support for Hybrid Cloud

Posted on 6 June 2017 by GeekFluent

Today Turbonomic announced  a new release of their autonomic management suite, version 5.9. The new version adds new capabilities, expanding their automated management into hybrid cloud environments, as well as a number of performance enhancements. With this release, Turbonomic is … Continue reading →

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Premise vs. Premises: A Modest Proposal

Posted on 10 May 2017 by GeekFluent

If you’ve ever listened to, or been involved in, a conversation about Cloud, you’re familiar with the idea that the infrastructure that runs any specific cloud can be either on-premises (local or private cloud), off-premises (remote or public cloud), or … Continue reading →

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Virtustream Launches Cloud Offering Designed for Healthcare

Posted on 9 May 2017 by GeekFluent

Today, at Dell EMC World, Virtustream — the enterprise-class cloud provider company in the Dell Technologies family of businesses — announced that they are offering a new service called Virtustream Healthcare Cloud. This service provides cloud-based hosting of mission-critical healthcare … Continue reading →

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Turbonmic Support for AWS and Kubernetes

Posted on 9 December 2016 by GeekFluent

[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 →

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