9Dec 2016
AWS Snowball Edge doesn’t compete with Nutanix but…
I made a hyperbolic statement on Twitter. I claimed that AWS’ Snowball Edge device was a direct competitor to Nutanix and other hyperconverged platforms. It’s Twitter. Tweets like mine are meant to generate conversation. It’s equivalent to clickbait. Of course, …
13Mar 2016
Is Cisco All in on Hyper-converged?
I’ve wanted to write on the Cisco exclusive partnership with hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) company SpringPath Inc. I wrote about SpringPath Inc. as part of my participation in the Storage Field Day 7 event. It’s a smaller software only play. They …
1Nov 2015
Why are HPUX, Solaris and Mainframes still a thing?
I’ve decided to participate in the …


