Category Archives: General

I last talked to Atlantis Computing at Virtualization Field Day 3 in 2014, at the time that they were releasing their USX data platform. I read about the release of their HyperConverged platform, HyperScale in 2015. HyperScale is a software … Continue reading →

People are very interesting. We each perceive the world slightly differently, sometimes very differently. Like most people, I am intrigued by how I think & how other people think. On my last trip to the US, I was thinking about … Continue reading →

I’ve heard about FalconStor as a storage virtualization platform for a while. I also think that we will see more products that virtualize clouds for mobility in the near(ish) future. The vision that FalconStor lays out is one where data … Continue reading →

It seems to be the season of object storage; I keep getting briefings on object storage products. At Tech Field Day Extra (TFDx) at VMworld USA, we had a briefing from Scality. Please refer to my standard TFD disclosure post. Scality … Continue reading →

You may have been surprised to see the name Pivot3 turn up as a leader in HCI in recent analyst reports. We are more used to seeing Nutanix & SimpliVity in the lead. Then a collection of others spread nearer … Continue reading →

Today’s briefing was with one of the founders of StacksWare. Don’t forget the second S or you get some other company. Their product gives visibility into the applications installed and running in your virtual and physical environment. A single OVA is deployed … Continue reading →

This week I have been at VMworld USA, always a busy time with lots of technology and making lots of videos. I did spend one afternoon attending the Tech Field Day Extra (TFDx) at VMworld, where I was briefed by … Continue reading →

Zerto is another company I have known for a while. At VMworld they announced a new release of their Zerto Virtual Replication. With some cool new features. I’ve written before that the biggest challenge in writing about Zerto’s products is … Continue reading →

You may know that I have been doing a bit of work with SimpliVity over the last year or so. If you work for SimpliVity you may have heard my voice on some training materials, hope you managed to stay … Continue reading →

Today’s briefing was with Robin Systems. Their pitch is around Application Defined Datacenters. It is an interesting focus since SDDC is usually all about the software that runs the data center and less about the applications that deliver value to the … Continue reading →