Posts tagged "tfd11"

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Restoring DevOps to Infrastructure with Actifio

Aug 23, 2016

As Enterprises integrate DevOps into more of their development lifecycles they start to bump up against some of the practicalities of managing data. A major tenet of DevOps is being able to ship code quicker to give you that edge against your competitors. It may be fast to write code and a continuous integration pipeline and continuous deployment capability allows you to take that new code, tes...

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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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I'm heading to Tech Field Day 11 and DockerCon!

Jun 9, 2016

| | | | --- | --- | ( is happening in Boston, from 22-24 June and I feel very honored to be asked to participate as a delegate. This will be my third Tech Field Day event, I previously attended ( and ( I like the change back to the roots of naming it Tech Field Day as virtualisation is so ubiquitous it has lost its meaning and can in some circumstances be a limiting definition. I’ll be joined...

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Tech Field Day 11 Preview: Actifio

Jun 9, 2016

( is happening in Boston, from 22-24 June and I’m super happy to be invited as a delegate. I’ve been previewing the companies attending, have a look at my introductory post: ( ( is a data management company and has a product which I believe could be of great use to Enterprises yet perhaps counter intuitively is a tough sell. Actfio presented at ( way back at the end of 2010. Companies waste vas...

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Tech Field Day 11 Preview: CloudPhysics

Jun 9, 2016

( is happening in Boston, from 22-24 June and I’m super happy to be invited as a delegate. I’ve been previewing the companies attending, have a look at my introductory post: ( ( is somewhat of a darling of the visualisation ecosystem, founded by a number of ex-VMware brains. CloudPhysics has previously presented at ( two years ago It has a SaaS product for analysing on-premises VMware installat...

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Tech Field Day 11 Preview: Comtrade

Jun 9, 2016

( is happening in Boston, from 22-24 June and I’m super happy to be invited as a delegate. I’ve been previewing the companies attending, have a look at my introductory post: ( ( is a slightly different company for Tech Field Day in that it is a sort of IT conglomerate that does system integration and is also a large software development house for hire. The Slovenian headquarted company wrote Ry...

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Tech Field Day 11 Preview: Netwrix

Jun 9, 2016

( is happening in Boston, from 22-24 June and I’m super happy to be invited as a delegate. I've been previewing the companies attending, have a look at my introductory post: ( I must admit I hadn't heard of Netwrix before but it is a company focused on auditing IT infrastructure and has an impressive 6000 customers, shame on me for not knowing about them. IT auditing can be seen as one of those...

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Tech Field Day 11 Preview: Plexistor

Jun 9, 2016

( is happening in Boston, from 22-24 June and I’m super happy to be invited as a delegate. I’ve been previewing the companies attending, have a look at my introductory post: ( The product has the tagline of "Software Defined Memory" which is a term that doesn't have an obvious meaning but is a near-memory speed storage platform for crunching data at scale while keeping the infrastructure simple...

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Tech Field Day 11 Preview: Plexxi

Jun 9, 2016

( is happening in Boston, from 22-24 June and I’m super happy to be invited as a delegate. I’ve been previewing the companies attending, have a look at my introductory post: ( Plexxi has three parts to its solution. Plexxi Switch is an Ethernet Switch which is connected to a bunch of other switches in a physical ring with a clever optical multiplexed connector that means they act as if they wer...

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Tech Field Day 11 Preview: Zerto

Jun 9, 2016

( is happening in Boston, from 22-24 June and I’m super happy to be invited as a delegate. I’ve been previewing the companies attending, have a look at my introductory post: ( Zerto provides a whole bunch of the usual backup functionality as well such as creating test bubbles and efficiently storing the multiple copies of data. Zerto is expanding its reach and that's what I'm expecting we'll he...

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