As a Service Provider you need to have support for multiple platforms, multiple services, multiple applications but still having to have a consistent way to deliver each and every service to the end-customer. Now most vendors have their own self-service solution which works for their own service, the issue with these are that they often …
So last year I switched jobs to Exclusive Networks here in Norway, which was distributor which focused on Nutanix, Arista, vArmour, AviNetworks, VMturbo as part of their BigTec portfolio and so on which was a looooong gap from my regular day-to-day work which focused on Microsoft, and ohhh boy did I learn a lot during …
With the uprise in Hyperconverged technology it is interesting to see how the different vendors in the market has embraced different architectures in their implementation . I’ve previously blogged about how VMware, Microsoft and Nutanix has done this –> http://msandbu.org/storage-warshci-edition/ Now therefore I decided to dig a bit deeper into the way Microsoft has implemented …
So lately a lot HCI vendors in the market have stated in their marketing campaigns that they bring all the benefits of the cloud to on-premises solutions. Some have also states that they make on-premises cool again. A lot of companies these days are evaluating the benefits that the cloud could bring to their enterprises …
Comparison of on-premises HCI vs Microsoft Azure Read More »
Earlier last week it was announced that Azure Stack will be deliverd as a turnkey solution duing 2017 via Dell, HPE and Lenovo systems. Now this came as a disappointment to many that they now could not be able to run Azure Stack on their existing hardware, since many have started to look forward to …
Azure Stack as an turnkey solution is that the right approach from Microsoft? Read More »
So like many people I have been watching todays keynote from the comfort of my own chair, and taken notes during the entire keynote. So people don’t have to read all the annoucements from every minor annoucement and rewatch the keynote here is a summary of todays news: XenDesktop 7.9 XenDesktop 7.9 was announced, so …
Summary of todays annoucements at Citrix Synergy Read More »
So this question came up a couple of days ago in my inbox, what actually makes customers choose Citrix over plain RDS?Isn’t RDS good enough in many circumstances? and has Citrix out-played its role in the application/desktop delivery marked? Not likely… So this questions has also appeard in my head many times over the last …
So just a bit of advertisment for our upcoming event at Exclusive Networks here in Norway! On the 27th of May we are having a whole day event with topics about Software-defined datacenter, deep-dive cybersecurity and datacenter networking, interested? You can read more about it here –> http://bit.ly/1o135Q0 We have alot of the coolest vendors …
A bit for my norwegian followers! Club Exclusive Read More »
So with Cisco and HP now accepting that HCI is now acceptable and with Cisco announcing their solution based upon Springpath last week and HP coming soon (already targeting Nutanix), and let us not forget VCE with the newly announced VXRAIL as well. It seems like everyone is jumping the boat for hyperconverged infrastructure these …
There is alot of fuzz these days around hyperconverged, software defined storage etc.. especially since VMware announced VSAN 6.2 earlier this week, that trigge alot of good old brawling on social media. Since VMware was clearly stating that they are the marked leader in the HCI marked, if that is true or not I don’t …
