Hans de Leenheer comments on his blog: The BYOD pipe is just too small The last presentation for the day was for Peter Jones, principal engineer at Cisco and chairman at the NBase-T alliance. He came to present us MultiGigabit Ethernet (2.5Gbps / 5.0Gbps). My immediate reaction was: who the hell needs a 2.5 and 5.0 GbE standard if […]
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TechFieldDay Extra at VMworld US
Hans De Leenheer comments on his blog: Oh yes, I’m honoured to be included in the TFD crew yet again. I previously was included in Storage Field Day 1 and Storage Field Day 5 but also at several of the smaller RoundTable events at VMworld, Cisco Live and Interop New York. TechFieldDay is by far […]
You Startups Challenge My Basic Knowledge
Hans de Leenheer comments on his blog: Today I got inspired by J.Metz’s article The Napkin Dialogues: “Open”-ing up to SDN where he admits being caught in speed by new technologies. Sometimes you need to go back to the napkin design to get a grip on it. These are the things I have tried to […]
The Economics of VSAN — it’s all in the design
Hans de Leenheer of @hansdeleenheer comments: Thank you for everyone that got in touch after my “Is VSAN affordable” post of a few days ago. I have enough new thoughts to give the post the extent it deserves and share a few new thoughts/questions. Hans gives you the cases where VSAN makes sense from a […]
Why I think Big Data IS “the new style of IT”
Hans de Leenheer of @hansdeleenheer comments: Actually I’m playing with you here as the title of this post is just a rip-off of Luigi Tiano‘s post: Why I think Big Data is NOT “the new style of IT”. In essence Luigi tell us that, although the commercial value of “collecting, analysing and mining data” the […]
Where is the EXIT route? My thoughts on Nimble Storage & PHDvirtual
Hans De Leenheer writes on his blog: Starting a new company by it’s nature means you are a business man! Otherwise you’d be going with your ideas to your CTO and just switch companies if he/she didn’t listen. From a business man’s point of view that technology idea needs to bring in some cash. So […]
Converged Architectures: it’s the use case, stupid!
Hans De Leenheer writes on his blog: Most of my readers are true technoligists and in that when we look at technology we focus a lot on the technology as such and sometimes lose the business case out of sight. this happens mostly when it comes to speeds and feeds. I already had some previous […]
Converged Architectures: it’s the use case, stupid!
Hans de Leenheer writes on his blog: There are two types of converged infrastructure: the one click sale all components in one SKU of which we know VCE vBLOCK, NetApp FlexPod, EMC vSPEX, Hitachi UCP, Dell vStart and HP VirtualSystem or most recently HP Sharks (working title). Technology wise there is hardly any added value […]
#SFD4 – Vendor 4: COHO Data
Hans De Leenheer writes on his blog: We were warned that COHO has a totally different approach to storage than the average startup. Most startups take a certain type of architecture and improve that either left or right and that becomes their added value or unique selling point. COHO takes a complete different approach. Both […]
VMworld Parties to follow
Hans DeLeenheer comments on his blog about VMworld: YES, I will be at VMworld SAN Francisco! And no, I am not coming as a disguised evangelist (yet, as this could still change). There is even more: I’m coming in one week early (august 19th). This means 2 more problems for you: I don’t ‘have’ to […]