Rodney Haywood (Rodos) picks up the Stack Wars theme. Why is this happening? Is it good for end users? Where are IBM and Dell? What about the smaller players? What does this do to innovation? What about cloud?
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Drobo FS, Where does it fit?
This is the question I have been asking myself since Data Robotics demo’ed the products to myself and the other delegates. If I’m honest, I’m still not sure.
Podcast 3: Tech Field Day VKernel Roundtable
On April 8, 2010, the Gestalt IT Tech Field Day Boston delegates visited the offices of VKernel. This discussion covered the company's capacity and performance optimization technology and Optimization Pack, Capacity Analyzer, and...
Panasas, Parascale Shuffle CEOs For Growth
The CEO Shuffle is in full force in the IT infrastructure industry. Geoff Barrall, founder and CEO of Data Robotics, recently stepped aside for Tom Buiocchi, and Alex Bakman of VKernel shifted to CTO, bringing in Doug McNary. Now...
1000Base-What?
Networking may be straightforward, but the world of networking terminology is not. I've been steeped in the strange lingo of Ethernet for many years, but I still get confused by some of the terms. What's the difference between...
Podcast 2: Tech Field Day Drobo Roundtable
On April 8, 2010, the Gestalt IT Tech Field Day Boston delegates sat down with Data Robotics. This discussion covered the company's BeyondRAID technology and their Drobo product line. The session culminated with a roundtable...
Tech Field Day Boston: The Links
As usual, the Tech Field Day event received massive amounts of attention, generating thousands of tweets and dozens of blog posts and videos from delegates and bystanders alike. We will attempt to collect those links here for...
Stack Wars: The Links
We at Gestalt IT are not the only ones looking at the Stack Wars. We didn't even come up with the name! In the spirit of community, we will be collecting links to other sites covering the topic on this page. Check back often as...
Nominate 2010 vExperts Now
VMware announced this week that nominations for 2010 vExpert are being accepted until April 30, 2010. Be sure to vote for your favorite “bloggers, book authors, VMUG leaders, event organizers, speakers, tool builders, forum...
Where Is Microsoft’s FCoE Support?
The storage and networking industry is pushing for high-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and its dominance of FCoE seems almost certain to many industry watchers. But where is Microsoft when it comes to FCoE? Put simply...