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Tag Archives: Hyperconverged
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) … Continue reading
Posted in Converged Infrastructure
Tagged Acquisition, Announcement, Cisco, HCI, Hyperconverged, Software-Defined, SpringPath, Virtualization
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HPE Acquiring SimpliVity for a Bargain Basement Price
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
Posted in SimpliVity
Tagged Acquisition, Announcement, HCI, HPE, Hyperconverged, SimpliVity
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Report on GeekFluent’s Predictions for 2016 — How’d I Do?
Last year I did my first “Predictions for Next Year” post. I see a lot of these kinds of posts near the end of the year. I wanted to take things a step further and look back to see how … Continue reading
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Tagged Hyperconverged, Predictions, Report Card, Security, Social Media, Storage
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SimpliVity Announces OmniStack 3.5 and OmniView
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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Tagged Announcement, Hyper-v, Hyperconverged, OmniStack, OmniView, SimpliVity, Storage, Virtualization, VMware
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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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GeekFluent’s Predictions for 2016
It’s that time of year when it seems like everybody is doing “Top Ten ${WHATEVER} in 2015” or “Predictions for ${INDUSTRY} in 2016” posts. I was feeling left out, hence my jumping on the bandwagon. Rather than restrict myself to … Continue reading
Nutanix Files Intent to IPO
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
Posted in Nutanix
Tagged Announcement, Hyperconverged, IPO, Nutanix, Storage, Virtualization
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SimpliVity Announces OmniStack 3.0, New OmniCube for ROBO, and a HyperGuarantee
Today, SimpliVity announced three new improvements to their hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution offering. The improvements can categorized as software, hardware, and programatic: Software: version 3.0 of their OmniStack software-defined HCI Hardware: a new, smaller OmniCube, the CN-1200, designed specifically as part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Announcement, Hyperconverged, OmniCube, OmniStack, ROBO, SimpliVity, Virtualization
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SimpliVity and Lenovo Announce Hyperconverged Partnership
Last week, SimpliVity, a leader in the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) space, announced that their OmniStack HCI solution will be available on Lenovo hardware. Prior to this announcement, the SimpliVity HCI solution could be deployed in two ways: by using the … Continue reading
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Tagged Announcement, Hyperconverged, Lenovo, SimpliVity, Virtualization
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SimpliVity Closes $175 Million D Round of Funding
Yesterday, hyperconverged infrastructure vendor SimpliVity announced that they had raised $175 Million in series D funding. Waypoint Captial led the round, with previous investors Accel Partners, Charles River Ventures, DFJ Growth, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (KPCB), and Meritech Capital … Continue reading
Posted in SimpliVity
Tagged Announcement, Hyperconverged, SimpliVity, Storage, Virtualization
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