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To Silicon Valley again – Storage Field Day 9

I will be at Silicon Valley once again in the third week of March, as it is will be the time for Tech Field Day awesomeness once again, it is the time for Storage Field Day, it is the time for Storage Field … Continue reading

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VMware vExpert 2016 – announced

My last post here was regarding recognition from EMC, EMC Elect for the third year in a row. Now I have one more update and this time from VMware. Yes, I am listed as a vExpert for 2016. That’s another … Continue reading

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EMC Elect for another year – EMC Elect 2016

Yesterday (1-Feb-16), EMC announced the EMC Elect 2016 list. I am really honored to be listed as one of the 73 members from 700 nominations and 150 finalists. I was a member of EMC Elect 2014 and 2015 class and … Continue reading

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Cohesity – Secondary storage consolidation

While almost the entire storage industry is interested in making the storage ready for mission critical environments/data, Cohesity thouhgt the other way. They started working to re-define the way Secondary data being dealt. Their presentation at Storage Field Day 8 discussed their vision and how … Continue reading

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2015 – Year-in-Review, from an enterprise storage standpoint

As always, another year is just coming to its end as if it was just a few hours. It was another awesome, eventful year for one in the world of technology and especially our small world – storage and virtualization. New products, acquisitions and startups and … Continue reading

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December give aways from vBrownBag and Veeam

Goodies..! Yes, this December there are many goodies awaiting you. Gifts from vBrownBag and Veeam may be coming your way. Fill-up the small forms, sit back and relax. vBrownBag End-Of-Year Give Away vBrownBag as usual is giving away a bunch of wonderful … Continue reading

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Understanding NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express)

SFD8 (Storage Field Day 8) gave us a great opportunity to listen from Intel about a few latest technologies on SSDs (Solid State Drives). The main discussions were on NVMe, 3D XPOINT, ISA-L etc… . I had to do some serious self … Continue reading

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All-Flash symphony from Violin Memory

Violin Memory is a US based Public company known for their AFA (All-Flash-Array ) storage systems in the market. Storage Field Day 8 (SFD8) helped me in having a deeper dive to the technical details of  Violin’s AFA products. Let us discuss … Continue reading

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EMC Elect 2016 – Don’t miss to nominate your heroes

Time is running out, nominate your heroes now for the EMC Elect 2016 batch. If you feel someone’s contribution towards EMC products and services to the community (ECN, Social events, Blogs, Tweets, LinkedIn posts etc…) need to be recognized, you can nominate … Continue reading

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Infinibox – Enterprise storage solution from Infinidat

During the SFD8 event recently, we had a presentation from Infinidat. A company lead by Moshe Yanai, a man who needs no words of introduction in storage industry. Infinibox  is an enterprise storage array from Infinidat referred (by one of … Continue reading

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