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New Dell Poweredge MX Series

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  Dell Technologies World this year was a combination of the former Dell World and EMC World events that has come about from the joined companies.  This year, I think one...

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by Rick Gouin | on May 2nd 2018 | 1 Comment

The three snazziest announcements from Dell Technologies World

Datacenter Servers Storage

Dell Technologies World is in full swing in Las Vegas this week.  There are so many new products and features being announced that it can be hard to keep track of them all. ...

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by Rick Gouin | on May 1st 2018 | No Comments

5 Fun Things in Nutanix AOS 5.6

Datacenter Hyperconverged

Nutanix released AOS 5.6 on 4/16.  In addition to a bunch of cool features we will highlight below, this also marks a change to a new release schedule.  The new release...

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by Rick Gouin | on Apr 17th 2018 | No Comments

Hybrid Architectures: Let’s Talk Availability

Datacenter Tech Soup

Hybrid architectures are popular.  As I look across the organizations that I consult with, I am hard pressed to point out many that aren’t working in some flavor of...

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by Rick Gouin | on Dec 19th 2017 | No Comments

Nutanix .NEXT 2017 Announcements: Rollup

Datacenter Disaster Recovery Hyperconverged Storage Virtualization

Coming out of .NEXT 2017, we saw 3 major strategic announcements from Nutanix, as well as a number of smaller updates.  Some of these had been previously announced, and some...

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by Rick Gouin | on Jul 3rd 2017 | 2 Comments

Nutanix .NEXT 2017 Announcements: Xtract

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The 3rd annual Nutanix .NEXT held in Washington DC at the end of June 2017 brought 3 major strategic announcements to light.  I talk about the first one, Calm, here.  The...

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by Rick Gouin | on Jul 3rd 2017 | 2 Comments

Nutanix .NEXT 2017 Announcements: XI and GCP

Datacenter Disaster Recovery Hyperconverged

In this article, I talked about the first of 3 major strategic announcements to come out of .NEXT 2017.  That article goes over how the calm.io acquisition has been put to...

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by Rick Gouin | on Jul 3rd 2017 | 2 Comments

Nutanix .NEXT 2017 Announcements: CALM

Datacenter Hyperconverged Virtualization

Today marks the end of the 3rd US Nutanix .NEXT conference.  When I think back to the first .NEXT that I attended in 2015 in Miami, everything starts to click.  At that...

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by Rick Gouin | on Jun 30th 2017 | 3 Comments

Dell Releases New SC5020

Datacenter Storage

I previously blogged about the release of the SC7020, which is part of the “odd number refresh” that has now added the SC5020.  By this, I mean that it appears...

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by Rick Gouin | on May 9th 2017 | No Comments

Nutanix AOS 5.1 Available!

Datacenter Hyperconverged Virtualization

Just a quick note about Nutanix AOS 5.1 that was just released on 5/1/17.  There are a few things in this update that I’ve been waiting for, so I thought I’d...

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by Rick Gouin | on May 3rd 2017 | No Comments
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rickgouin Rick Gouin @rickgouin ·
23 Aug

Dell SC storage arrays, maybe better known as Compellent, are now officially end of sale. I wrote up a post with a few things users need to know here: https://www.rickgouin.com/dell-sc-end-of-life/

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rickgouin Rick Gouin @rickgouin ·
25 May 2021

Worked with a few folks to use storage array snapshots to recover from ransomware attacks recently. Here is a checklist to help harden your @Dell SC Storage array: https://www.rickgouin.com/hardening-dell-storage-center/

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rickgouin Rick Gouin @rickgouin ·
8 Apr 2021

Our own @vMattK popped up on @boston25 news last night talking about a recent cyber attack on the State of Mass RMV that caused vehicle inspections to shut down: https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/rmv-inspections-out-commission-after-cyber-attack-vendor/EL5PVJWKVVCLFCRT5MVO4MYQ5E/

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