Monthly Archives: May 2019

Simply Zerto, It Just Works.

Posted on May 31, 2019 by Alastair

I had a great chat with a Zerto customer while we were eating lunch at ZertoCon last week. The customer is an MSP that offers Backup and DR as services to their customers. The DR as a Service (DRaaS) is … Continue reading →

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Cohesity Adds Imanis for More Cloud-native

Posted on May 29, 2019 by Alastair

Hopefully, you understand that cloud-native applications have very different architecture and different databases compared to traditional enterprise applications. There are now modern enterprise applications, which use cloud-native services and databases alongside traditional application constructs. We also see more enterprises having … Continue reading →

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ZertoCon, Small Is Beautiful

Posted on May 24, 2019 by Alastair

One of the beautiful things about a small conference is feeling less like I’m lost in a crowd. I spent three days in Nashville at ZertoCon with a few hundred other attendees. A smaller conference meant smaller queues for food … Continue reading →

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Protecting Nutanix AHV with Cohesity

Posted on May 22, 2019 by Alastair

This week I had a look at using my Cohesity cluster to protect a Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) environment. Most of my experience with Nutanix was using vSphere as the hypervisor, in which case Cohesity sees a vSphere environment. This … Continue reading →

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Long Haul to ZertoCon 2019

Posted on May 16, 2019 by Alastair

Next week I will be in Nashville for ZertoCon. Two firsts for me as I have never been to Tennessee or ZertoCon. I also get to have my longest flight, almost fifteen hours direct from Auckland to Chicago before my … Continue reading →

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Guarantees Are Good for Business and Engineering

Posted on May 14, 2019 by Alastair

When I first met Pure Storage, at Virtualization Field Day Three, the company objective was to deliver an all-flash storage array that was cost competitive with disk-based arrays. At that time Pure Storage was optimizing for cost, rather than all-out … Continue reading →

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