Does your company have ticket battles? Here’s what they look like: An alert fires. Something is broken. The operations team looks at their dashboards and sees healthy services, so they point to the application code. A ticket is filed. The development team, swamped with feature requests, pushes back, suspecting an infrastructure issue. This “ticket battle” […]
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Businesses rely on data to get things done. For example, airlines depend on data to analyze passenger demand and travel patterns to optimize schedules, pricing, and staffing. You can imagine how much data an airline must crunch through to provide the best services to their clients. AI, in particular Narrow AI, can help us analyze […]
Today, Solidigm announced the introduction of the world’s highest capacity PCIe solid-state drive (SSD), the 122TB (terabyte) Solidigm™ D5-P5336 data center SSD. During the launch event, we attended a presentation on the new 122TB drives. However, the highlight for me was a panel featuring Solidum’s partners and customers. Throughout the event, I experienced a strong sense […]
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With the recent changes in Broadcom’s VMworld portfolio, many organizations are exploring VMware migration to other virtualization platforms. As companies like AT&T voice concerns over unwanted subscription costs, businesses are considering alternatives like Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM, and Xen to replace VMware’s ESXi. Some are even going to HCI (hyperconverged infrastructure) solutions like Scale Computing or […]
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I wrote about mourning the VMware vCommunity in this blog post. However, every technical community evolves as technology changes. The question we should be asking ourselves is: how is Broadcom’s VMware strategy reshaping the virtualization market? Which segment of the server virtualization market is Broadcom interested in? Let’s examine this from a business perspective. In […]
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Earlier this month I headed to Kansas City with the Tech Field Day crewe to attend the SHARE conference. SHARE is the oldest enterprise user conference in the world, so it makes sense that attendees are people who manage mainframes. This post is a review of a Tech Field Day presentation from BMC that discussed […]
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I had the opportunity to attend Clik Connect last week in Orlando, Florida with the Tech Field Day crewe. The event was a chance for Qlik to showcase their new product enhancements, all of which centered around Qlik’s data-first AI adoption approach. But what sticks out in my mind is the Qlik Community. The Qlik […]
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I was ecstatic when I was invited to be a delegate at the very first Edge Field Day. Edge is a weird term. Is it COLO 2.0, or about IoT? How do you get your arms around requirements for edge compute architecture? We found out at Edge Field Day 1. The line up was stellar: […]
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Here’s my 3rd post from Storage Field Day – Pure live blog post. Storage sustainability – Reducing carbon footprint Pure is working on being more transparent about how their arrays impact the environment. They started with a review of the industry. IT is 1% of worlds energy, that’s more than some countries use. Power use […]
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Here’s my 2nd post from Storage Field Day – AWS live blog post. Overview In this section we got some of the business reasons to use AWS managed file services. For example, some customers want to move to cloud for file service because they don’t want to deal with the on-prem hardware anymore (procuring and […]
