All-Flash is changing your hardware support

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. […]

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Cisco 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 […]

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Intel & 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 […]

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Veeam 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 […]

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Production 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 […]

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My 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 […]

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The 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 Almost every item in that backpack has been replaced by […]

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So 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 […]

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vSphere 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 […]

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Snowflakes 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 […]

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This 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 […]

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Flipping 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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