Category: Virtualization

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • The Virtustream MicroVM

    The Virtustream MicroVM

    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 Guy). That technology was Virtustream MicroVMTM — often abbreviated as µVMTM. There has been so much…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • My Schedule at VMworld US 2017

    After having had to miss out on VMworld last year, I’m pleased to announce my triumphant return to the event. Or at least my return. VMworld has always been, in my opinion, one of the best yearly events, not just in terms of the technical content and knowledge to be gained, but also because of…

  • 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…

  • Voting for Top vBlog 2017 is Open — Closes 30 June

    Voting for Top vBlog 2017 is Open — Closes 30 June

    It’s that time of year again when you’re seeing lots of “Vote for Me!” blog posts and tweets. This is not one of those posts. Yes, once again, Eric Seibert is running voting for the Top vBlog of 2017 on his really great blog vSphere-Land. (If it’s not already in whatever you’ve moved to since Google…

  • Job Search Successful — I’m Headed to the Cloud

    First things first: I want to thank everyone who has followed along and supported me during the recent job search. It’s meant a lot to me to know that I was never really alone during it. A special thank you to all of you who contacted me and acted as “connectors”, connecting me to people,…