Posts tagged "vfd4"

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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: 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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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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Virtualisation Field Day 4 Preview: SimpliVity

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 just over two year old shipping hyper-converged infrastructure vendor who is making great strides in a very hot market segment. Simplivity are presenting for the 1st time at Virtualisation Field Day. Th...

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Virtualisation Field Day 4 Preview: SolarWinds

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: ( ]( "400px-SolarWinds_logo")]( Everyone has heard of ( and either used your seen their ubiquitous network monitoring product Orion but you may or may not be surprised to know that they do a lot more. They have...

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Virtualisation Field Day 4 Preview: StorMagic

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 an interesting product called SvSAN which is a SAN specifically designed for remote offices which require local IT infrastructure that can’t be delivered remotely. StorMagic has previously presented at (...

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Virtualisation Field Day 4 Preview: VMTurbo

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: ( ]( "VMTurboLogoSm")]( ( presented at the last ( with an update at the VMworld SFO compact edition so the Tech Field Day community know what they are about. VMTurbo has an application called Operations Manager...

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Virtualisation Field Day 4 Preview

Jan 8, 2015

I am very honoured and hugely excited to have been invited to the legendary ( being run by ( and ( as part of their ( series of events. I’ve been following Tech Field day events since they started and to be invited as a delegate for ( ( is fantastic. What a cool list of delegates I’ll be joining: ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( I’ve met a number of them before so will be happy to reconnect and meet some...

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