The three snazziest announcements from Dell Technologies World
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. ...
5 Fun Things in Nutanix AOS 5.6
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...
Hybrid Architectures: Let’s Talk Availability
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...
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...
Nutanix .NEXT 2017 Announcements: Xtract
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...
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...
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...
Dell Releases New SC5020
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...
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...
Nutanix CE Memory Requirements
Datacenter Homelab Hyperconverged Virtualization
Nutanix CE has a bunch of powerful features, and new ones are coming out all the time. Some of them, however, require the CVM to have additional RAM in order to work properly. For...