HP might still go for true Converged Infrastructure?

HP has been marketing Converged Infrastructure for at least 3 to 4 years now. But for most of us it still is not even close […]

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Baby 3PAR has super powers

I know, the title is a bit of a teaser but it makes sense. I am at HP Discover Las Vegas this week and HP […]

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VMware’s Software Defined Storage – and some rant

There are 2 reasons for this blogpost. Firstly I was at VMUG Italy (#VMUGit) last week and the closing slot was Cormac Hogan (@VMwareStorage). Although he […]

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Learning new languages 2.0

I was never good at foreign languages in school. I failed my French classes each and every year and my English was as good as […]

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Your storage in the Cloud

Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, bleh bleh bleh, … get over it, it is all called CLOUD and it will remain that way for […]

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2013 – the year of FLASH in BeNeLux

First post of this year and the look forward comes out of the look backward. You have seen me writing a lot about storage (flash) […]

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2012 was Squirrels and Bacon

2012 has been, without a doubt, the most exciting year since I walk around this globe. There have been other years that had higher or […]

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HP Proliant Gen8 – Tech Q&A

Yesterday HP announced the new ProLiant Gen8. Formerly they had G3, G4, G5, G6 and G7 but this time it has been called the Gen8. Apparently it has something […]

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PureStorage arrives in EMEA

If you follow my blog closely you’ll notice that I like to follow up on some storage startups. A lot of them I did meet […]

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Please welcome baby 3PAR!

Rebranding the ‘future’ story: I’ve said it a few times in the last 2 years (actually since the acquisition of 3PAR) that HP should have […]

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Are you ready for the Flash

As promised at the last #VMUGbe (#17) I did deliver a session for the latest #VMUGbe (#18) november 9th. Although I did switch to ‘the […]

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The home lab – general

Finally I decided to create a decent home lab. Not only to run some tests but most of all to be able to show all […]

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