122TB Innovation: Solidigm’s Data Storage Breakthrough

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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Navigating the challenges of VMware migration to a new hypervisor

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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Broadcom’s VMware strategy: A plan that will reshape IT 

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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Key Acquisitions Drive Qlik Community Growth

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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Edge Compute Architecture Explained: What You Need to Know

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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AWS live blog post from Storage Field Day

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 […]

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Dell live blog from Storage Field Day

Here’s my my first live blog from Storage Field Day 24 – the Dell Live blog. Delivering a continuously modern storage experience Scott Delandy kicked off Storage Field Day with the presentation “Delivering a continuously modern storage experience”. He kicked it off with some revenue numbers. One third of Dell’s revenue ($34B) comes from ISG […]

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Project Monterey: What We Know So Far

Project Monterey was announced (in tech preview) at VMworld this year. This post is a collection of my early reactions to VMware’s Project Monterey, as well as contemplations from other sources. If you know of an important source of content that I’ve missed, please let me know. I am still hunting for some of the […]

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Have You Built Your VMware 2020 Adventure?

I can’t believe VMworld 2020 is finally here! I have taken my own advice and treated VMworld this year as an online adventure. This post outlines the details for for my VMworld campaign. All times are in my timezone – Central. Gathering Places Gathering places are important when we are in San Francisco (or Vegas), […]

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