A couple of weeks back at Episode 29 of the In Tech We Trust podcast we talked about the the failure rate of flash drives. […]
Continue readingCisco NBase-T – lipstick on your Cat5e pig
In January of this year I was invited to join the TechFieldDay crew at Cisco Live in Milan. On Monday we got a whole day […]
Continue readingIntel & VMware bring HyperSocket Infrastructure
History Virtualization has come a long way. In 1987 RAID (redundant Array of Independent Disks) was the first introduction to obfuscating what was really happening on a […]
Continue readingVeeam updates – sales reference
Lately I have been asked by resellers in the field in Belgium to help position Veeam at larger accounts. Most of those customers have tested […]
Continue readingProduction storage needs new benchmarks
Dragster Benchmarking I’ve ranted on this more than once. Benchmarks are 99% of the time utter bull… and tell you nothing about what the solution’s […]
Continue readingMy London Tech Week – 2 ducks in a row
I love London. Well, I like spending time in the UK in general anyhow but London is still a special place. Maybe it’s because it’s […]
Continue readingThe Podcasting Setup
2 years ago I wrote my “mobile studio” post where I shared my 3-angle-camera-in-a-backpack setup. Almost every item in that backpack has been replaced by […]
Continue readingSo now you’re a vExpert?
aToday you’ll see plenty of blogposts about the vExpert 2015 nominations. I am proud to say I’ve got a hat-trick now, being recognized as one […]
Continue readingvSphere 6 NFS4.1 does not include parallel striping!
Oh how happy are we that VMware FINALLY decided to add support for NFS4.1 especially since the NFS3 client’s major problem has always been single-session […]
Continue readingSnowflakes and Buzzword Bingo
It’s been a while but I’m back with another marketing rant! Some of you may already know my Fooled By Marketing Metrics which is probalbly a series I am […]
Continue readingThis Burning Man is a rising Phoenix
This end-of-year post is not a happy one, but at the very least it will be honest. As you have always known me. All in […]
Continue readingFlipping the Cloud Paradigm – part II
A little over a year ago I wrote “Are you a cloud paranoia”. The baseline of the post was that people don’t trust Public Cloud […]
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