Notes from the Field: The Rate of Change
From an outsider’s perspective, the enterprise environment can appear to […]
Articles by Rich Stroffolino
Improving Stateful Container Storage with StorageOS
Containers are in a weird place in IT right now. […]
Why design simplicity is bad for your network
Kevin Myers has worked as an enterprise engineer for both […]
Nutanix Posts First Earnings Report
A lot of people were wondering how Nutanix would look with their first earnings report. Well the results are in and so far they beat expectations. In their first three months as a public company, they posted $166.8 in revenue, representing a $0.37 loss per share. This beat analysts expectations, which amalgamated to expected revenue of $152.3 million and a $0.44 loss per share. Obviously it’s really early days, but good earnings are never a bad thing.
The Self-Healing Data Center Part 1: Using vR Ops with vRO to Automatically Remediate Alerts
We all know that old philosophical question: if vRealize Operations […]
The Igneous Synthesis
I saw Igneous Systems present at Tech Field Day earlier this month. Their offering is a bit of an odd mix at first. They want to offer the benefits of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for data that cannot be stored in the cloud. This seemed counter intuitive, after all, what else would you use the cloud for? But Igneous has a clever solution.
Coming to SD-WAN: The Build vs. Buy Decision
VeloCloud is offering a rather unique solution for SD-WAN. Instead […]
A VMware guy’s perspective on containers
In the enterprise IT world, virtual machines are like Marvel […]
Don’t be quick to build or migrate to cloud
I’m still getting my sea legs in the world of […]
Apstra: The Intent-Driven Cure for Network Blindness
Networks, sometimes it feels like you don’t even know them […]
