Posts tagged "vfd"

16 posts

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: Spirent

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:( Spirent is a company I've never dealt with. It's heavily on the networking side of virtualisation which is not my area of expertise but luckily at Virtualisation Field Day we have experts in all t...

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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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CommVault: We're not just a backup company but we don't like telling you

Apr 8, 2015

I was very fortunate to attend ( earlier this year. One of the companies presenting was ( who bill themselves as a "data" company. They spent the majority of their time at Virtualisation Field Day going through all the details of how they can do backups and restores and to be honest it was rather dull. Backups are hugely critical to your infrastructure and just like insurance you don't want to...

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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: Dell

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: ( Dell is the strappy direct selling IT upstart that became a big enterprise hardware and software vendor and is hugely interesting at the moment. First of all, it has just been through its 1st year of being a p...

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Virtualisation Field Day 4 Preview: Platform9

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 new to Tech Field Day so we welcome them to VFD4 and they only came out of stealth 6 months ago. OpenStack’s issues are complexity and divergence and Platform9 intends to fix that with a cloud management...

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