Posts tagged "tfd"

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Crowdsourcing Community Knowledge with CloudPhysics

Aug 22, 2016

( is a SaaS based solution for sucking up all your on-premises vSphere metadata into its own data lake and performing any number of analytics crunching on it. The Cloud Physics offering is built upon a system of displaying cards where you can correlate configuration and/or performance information to show you for example datastore utilisation or iSCSI LUNs. One of the interesting aspects of Clou...

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ZeroStack's full stack from Infrastructure to Application

Jan 13, 2016

ZeroStack is a recently out of stealth company providing a cloud managed hyper-converged appliance running OpenStack. It is targeting private cloud customers who are wanting to stand up their own OpenStack instances but don't want the hassle of getting it all working themselves. What ZeroStack also does which is unique is combine this infrastructure part with application deployment which for me...

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FalconStor's rebirth with FreeStor

Dec 7, 2015

FalconStor as a company seems to have had a much needed rebirth which it sorely needed after ( 4 years ago started to sink the ship. FalconStor then bled cash for a while and lost another CEO before current boss Gary Quinn took the helm. Current management as expected takes pains to distance themselves from the dark times and are passionate about the company's future and believe they have what...

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I'm heading to Virtualisation Field Day 6

Nov 10, 2015

Excitement is mounting as I've been asked to be part of ( next week, part of the ( series of events. I was hugely humbled to have been asked to be part of Virtualisation Field Day 4 so being asked back is a real honour, means I wasn't a total waste of space at the last one, right! This time we're heading to Silicon Valley, the cradle of our IT world. I'll be joined by ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( and ( What...

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Virtualisation Field Day 6 Preview: AppFormix

Nov 10, 2015

( is happening in Silicon Valley, California from 18th-20th November and I’m very lucky to be invited as a delegate. I’ve been previewing the companies attending, have a look at my introductory post:( ( is a company that has recently come out of stealth mode. It is basically a monitoring and analysis tool for cloud infrastructure to help people manage a shared and multi-tenant infrastructure. O...

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Virtualisation Field Day 6 Preview: Cirba

Nov 10, 2015

( is happening in Silicon Valley, California from 18th-20th November and I’m very lucky to be invited as a delegate. I’ve been previewing the companies attending, have a look at my introductory post:( I briefly met ( at ( and they presented briefly at ( ( this year. Cirba is a privately owned company and has been operating since 1999. Cirba is a Canadian company with a product which is all abou...

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Virtualisation Field Day 6 Preview: FalconStor

Nov 10, 2015

_Updated on 11/11/2015 with some changes based on additional information._ ( is happening in Silicon Valley, California from 18th-20th November and I’m very lucky to be invited as a delegate. I’ve been previewing the companies attending, have a look at my introductory post:( FalconStor is a company I've heard of over the years (it's been going for 15 years) but haven't had any direct experience...

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Virtualisation Field Day 6 Preview: ZeroStack

Nov 10, 2015

( is happening in Silicon Valley, California from 18th-20th November and I’m very lucky to be invited as a delegate. I’ve been previewing the companies attending, have a look at my introductory post:( As a start-up its worth looking at who is involved and it has quite a pedigree. Founded by Ajay Gulati who spent 6 years at VMware working on Storage I/O control, Storage DRS and DRS, and Kiran Bond...

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Virtualisation Field Day 4 Preview: CommVault

Jan 8, 2015

( is happening in Austin, Texas from 14th-16th January and I’m very lucky to be invited as a delegate. I’ve been previewing the companies attending, have a look at my introductory post: ( ( is a data company (what backup companies also now call themselves) and has previously presented at ( and ( Calling Commvault just a backup company isn’t a little disparaging as their software aims to do a lo...

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Virtualisation Field Day 4 Preview: Scale Computing

Jan 8, 2015

( is happening in Austin, Texas from 14th-16th January and I’m very lucky to be invited as a delegate. I’ve been previewing the companies attending, have a look at my introductory post: ( ( has presented previously at ( this is their 1st Virtualisation Field Day but they must be keen to get their message out as they’ve already signed up for Virtualisation Field Day 5. Scale Computing is another...

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