For those wandering on social media and saw some fuzz about .NEXT conference from Nutanix and wondering what that was all about, let me enlighten you. Nutanix which is become a well known player in the hyperconverged has their first user confernce this week in Miami and has some spectacular announcements. Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform: […]
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Well the title might be a bit misleading but its true! For those who haven’t seen the news yet, you can read about it here –> http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/uscorp1/press-releases/2014-06-24-dell-software-defined-storage-portfolio Now a little background story here, Nutanix has been in the market with its hardware based appliances in about a year/two years or so now. The appliances are
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Yesterday Microsoft published a blogpost stating that Microsoft 365 Local and Azure Local Disconnected are now generally available –> https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/02/24/microsoft-sovereign-cloud-adds-governance-productivity-and-support-for-large-ai-models-securely-running-even-when-completely-disconnected/ Both of these new features allow you to run both in an Airgapped or completely offline scenario, which ensures that you have no requirement to connect these services to the cloud. However still the need
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To be honest I did not think that I would start 2026 with so many discussions on Cloud Exit / Hybrid Strategy and sovereignty, but it seems with all that is doing on in the world that more and more organisations are starting to consider their options/alternatives when it comes to IT-services. And it is
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This is a long overdue blog post focusing on what I believe will be the future state of the EUC, and is essentially a summary of a session I did at EUC Denmark back in March. The current state: When I am talking with customer these days I see much of the same topics being
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After working a lot with GenAI the last couple of years, I see that some organisations must keep data, LLM inference inside their own data centres for compliance, latency or cost reasons. Therefore I wanted to show how to build a PoC/MVP running locally but also look more into the enterprise ecosystem in terms of
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The last 6 months I have been involved in numerous discussions related to virtualization and specifically related to “how do I move from A to B? what do I loose of functionality? what do I gain?”. Reason behind these discussions are often related to license cost and that their footprint within their own datacenter is
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I wanted to write this blog post as a follow-up to the EUC conference in Norway last week. This was the first EUC conference ever held in Norway, where I delivered the keynote on the future of the workplace and client environments. I’d like to share my thoughts on what the future might look like.
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With all the turmoil around VMware, should you consider moving to an alternative platform? With all the changes happening in VMware, both at the company and licensing changes many are looking towards changing to another virtualization layer. Why? While the price increase is different from customer to customer, you can look at this Reddit thread
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Contact me: [email protected] Marius Sandbu is a Cloud Evangelist for Sopra Steria in Norway.With some undiagnosed AHDH and new shiny object syndrome, he tends to get drawn to new cool technology. The current buzz is Generative AI and Security. * Public Cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP and even OCI and IBM) working 14 years with Azure.* Databricks
