Nutanix .NEXT 2018 was held the 2nd week of May in New Orleans this year. I have to say that I greatly appreciate attending a conference somewhere other than Las Vegas. Keep it up as long as you can Nutanix! There were a number of announcements, and quite a bit […]
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 of the most important and exciting announcements to come out of the show was a sneak preview of the […]
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. I’ve sifted through all this stuff and come up with a few of the biggest things to […]
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 schedule sounds a bit like what you might find from Ubuntu Linux. There will be long term support releases, […]
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 hybrid environment, even if they don’t realize it. One of the things that can become confusing is the overall availability of […]
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 were all new. In this article, I’d like to give a quick overview on some of those smaller announcements or […]
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 2nd one is a hybrid cloud enabler called Xi, which I talk about here. One of the thematic elements […]
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 use by Nutanix in their Enterprise Cloud Platform. Now, lets talk about the 2nd major announcement, which is Xi […]
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 very first .NEXT conference, there was lots of hinting towards integrations with cloud providers. At the time, all […]
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 the even numbered SC platforms (SCv2000, SC4020, SC8000) will be refreshed via odd numbered platforms, of which we now have […]