The Art of Business at Its Finest: HPE’s acquisitions of Nimble Storage and SimpliVity appear to set the stage for vendors to dominate the hyperconverged market.
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VMware Ends Support for 3rd Party Virtual Switches
This post on reddit appears to intimate that VMware is closing its API for virtual switches to all parties, including its long-standing networking partner Cisco. When I first read the post, I thought the move was a retrograde step by VMware and another veiled dig at its ecosystem. The post links to an official blog post …
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Rewrite – Refactor – Recreate?
The world is moving to containers! Hop on board, or the train will leave you behind! Woah, stop right there—take some time to analyze and think about what you are doing. Do you need to rewrite your code? Refactor your infrastructure? Recreate your environment? All of these will take time, money, and experience (knowledge). Get …
Enterprises Operate Their IT; Hyperscalers Build Their IT
There is a lot of talk of having enterprises build and operate IT infrastructure the same way hyperscalers do. AWS, Google, and Microsoft can build and operate cloud platforms that are very cost effective. The logic is that enterprise businesses can use the same techniques to build and operate their own efficient data centers. I …
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In the Hybrid Cloud, Your Role Matters, but…
The title of this article is “In the Hybrid Cloud, Your Role Matters, but…,” and there is a big “but” there. How you use your role is what really matters. Whether you are a cloud, virtualization, or container administrator, evangelist, or architect, how you use your role makes or breaks the secure hybrid cloud. We …
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HCI Will Chase You up the Stack
I really do not see hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) as the final product for the leading vendors. It is more of a minimum viable product than a finished solution. Converging compute and storage has made infrastructure management easier, but there is still a whole lot of IT that is not easier. I sometimes tell people that …