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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I participated in the TFDx PoweredUp event in June 2020. This post is a round-up of the content I created and my experience at the event. Before I get started, I should say that I was not paid for participating in the event, and I was not required to create any content as a condition […]
During TechField Day, we discovered how Dell EMC Isilon tackles unstructured data challenges with its scale-out NAS and cloud integration. […]
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