The fairytale of Hypervisor Commodity

We hear some people chanting that the Hypervisor is a commodity. What they actually mean is that for an administrator it doesn’t really matter that […]

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My transatlantic 1o1 travelguide

This week I was the guest at SpeakingInTech podcast. It was just the result of Greg Knieriemen flying in through Brussels and we had a […]

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Brussels, capital of Europe. Worst pupil in innovation class.

It’s a pitty most of my readers will miss half of the fuzz as according to Google Analytics, only 15% of you is from Belgium. […]

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you startups challenge my basic knowledge

DISCLAIMER: the companies named in this blogpost COHODATA: sponsor of Storage Field Day 4, where I was an attendee and my T&E was covered by […]

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Say nay to the naysayers – serverside storage for believers

DISCLAIMER: I am currently working on a Marketing project for ScaleComputing, one of the players in the HyperConverged platform market. The heat is on! That’s […]

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The price of Independence

This morning I read a very nice article by Federica Monsone (A3 Communication, UK) on Product Reviews by Independent writers. In her article she gives […]

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Who is ScaleComputing and why do they appear on my blog?

I think everyone knows by now that I am a huge fan of HyperConverged Infrastructure. The biggest reason for that is that I love per-node […]

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is Cisco InterCloud late to the party?

Cisco just announced their move to the Cloud as a public/hybrid player. A few short details: name: InterCloud platform of choice: OpenStack model: hybrid, partner […]

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The Economics of VSAN – it’s all in the design

Thank you for everyone that got in touch after my “Is VSAN affordable” post of a few days ago. I have enough new thoughts to […]

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is VSAN more affordable?

I was very pleased to see actual results coming on the VMware blog concerning VSAN 5.5 GA benchmarks in the lab. First of all please […]

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Stop bitching! It might help you

So a few weeks ago I wrote this great story about Jawbone going the extra mile and replacing my Jawbone UP which I have broken […]

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The Big Hearts Community

I truly love it when people go above and beyond their paycheck to support people in need. A good recent example is where Duncan Epping […]

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