VMware Explore is one month away and I cannot wait to be up in San Francisco enjoying the nice weather, seeing VMworld backpacks everywhere, some familiar faces, absorbing as much…
Have you ever configured a SmartStore Bucket for Splunk on a Pure Storage Flashblade before? Me neither, till recently. Part of this exciting role is that you have the opportunity…
I ran into an issue the other day trying to assign the usual service profile to a couple new B200-M5 blades that were purchased and historically, these would be equipped…
If you missed Techfest 2022 yesterday, it is okay...the biggest announcement IMO was the new re-designed model of the Flashblade platform called //S. This time providing higher //Speed, //Simplicity, //Scalability…
The days of paying for more compute than truly needed on VMC are over with! With VMware latest announcement, Cloud Flex Storage you can now grow your storage separately without…
Did you miss the Pure Storage launch event this week? It's okay, so did I, however, I was able to catch up on the new FlashArray model announced, the //XL130…
Do not try to save some cents now to gain some headaches later. If you have to deal with bad architecture, let it be due to technological debt and not…
If you ever dreamed of a storage array that could be configured in less than an hour, required no zoning or iSCSI mappings (NFS), provided consistent performance to its workloads,…
Yesterday I got to hear about some really cool technology thanks to Scott and LaLe! GPU, NVDIMMs and disks combined for a higher throughput, scalable, lower latency solution! It also comes with a…
Did you miss the Nutanix .NEXT keynote yesterday with some of the biggest announcements of the year? No worries, let me summarize some of it for you. - Partnership with…