A highlight of VMware’s Newest Updates from Partner Exchange 2015 On Monday February 2 VMware announced the release of several new updates and new offers. I previously blogged a bit about this titled: vSphere 6 Storage – The Future of Storage At-Scale. Here’s a few of the highlights to be aware of and how SolidFire integrates…
Warning – This blog is not an engineering deep dive on everything VVOLs. There will be many of those launched at VMware Partner Exchange 2015 with incredible info. This blog will be about the future of VMware Storage at Scale. First off congrats to VMware for the release of vSphere 6. In this release there…
VMworld 2014 Recap The Themes VMware is trying to transcend the hypervisor with a Software Defined Data Center – Not news but repackaging and renaming it a modernization of the marketing approach sometimes needed to move forward (See announcements on vRealize). New products/services were announced but not as prominently as previous VMworlds. VMware is transcending…
Cut to the chase; today 7/16/2014 I join SolidFire! I’m doing this to: Further build out some of their most strategic technology partnerships including VMware, Citrix Systems and others Work with an elite team of solution architects focusing on areas like virtual infrastructure and virtual desktops, orchestration, automation and database systems Work with the SolidFire…
VMware has been in the works for a software SAN also known as VSAN. The technology functions with up to 8 nodes in the current beta and will support 32 once GA. Also vmware purchased Virtso which is an incredible storage software solution that virtualizes storage and re-orders the write patterns to sequential. Take a…
My wife hates my Logitech Harmony remotes. I love it. It’s hard to get everyone to unify on a concept but last I checked the Harmony remote concept is ruling the universal remote markets She, like a lot of people, doesn’t have any tolerance for flaws in the HD TV system. If it doesn’t work flawless,…
The industry has been crazed by the notion of “Unifying” storage. NetApp has lead the charge as has EMC and others. Above I’ve offered the classic “spork” as a symbol (similar to swiss army knife) of the ultimate flexible eating utility. What could beat it? The problem is I’ve never seen kitchen drawers with sporks. Huh.…
On the Solutions Exchange floor for vmworld 2012 I got an extensive run through of the Nutanix platform and software. Since last vmworld I don’t know of any other storage vendor that’s received this much buzz. Why? What’s interesting to me is they are a server/storage no SAN platform. That’s right a full integrated solution…
A continuation of my floor review of FusionIO and their new technology. ION is one of those technologies that is an externally sharable solution. The concept is you provide the x86 box, insert multiple FusionIO cards, load ION software code and boom; you have an all PCIe flash, fault tolerant (stripped across cards), sharable via…
From the show floor of vmworld 2012 I got a chance to get a demo and overview from the FusionIO folks. These are the folks that @NexusStratos (the company I’m with) worked with on the Polaris success (earlier in the year we did a “brief-n-ride” at their corp HQ – uber sleds, uber tech). The…
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