In a word, community - 23 April 2013
Value. That one word carries many implications today, and one of those that is big for me right now is, how we deliver more value to the business and handle (or hide) the complexities we're managing.To...
View ArticleSee no evil - 26 April 2013
See no evil, hear no evil , speak no evil could yet become synonymous with the software defined datacenters as it pertains to networking. To read the full entry, or make a comment, click here
View ArticleITIL - Its as relevant as ever - 29 April 2013
To get good IT service management, the ITIL framework works - it's just common sense.To read the full entry, or make a comment, click here
View ArticleCloud strategy recommendations - 13 May 2013
Organisations require a strategy - a clear statement of direction and intent - before they can establish a roadmap of cloud adoptionTo read the full entry, or make a comment, click here
View ArticleThe Seven Principles of Software Defined Storage - 10 June 2013
We've just ran events in Auckland around Converged Infrastructure and VDI involving our partners Nutanix and VMwareTo read the full entry, or make a comment, click here
View ArticleAre you ready? - 21 June 2013
People, get ready for change is the thought that has prompted me to put together this blog. To read the full entry, or make a comment, click here
View ArticleAnytime anywhere support ? collaborate or die - 17 July 2013
Work is no longer a place. The boundaries between work and personal time are blurred, at the same time the technology we once thought of as personal is evolving rapidly to enable work activitiesTo read...
View ArticleViFX supports regional launch of hot storage vendor Actifio - 08 August 2013
Internationally hot storage vendor Actifio, was supported by ViFX at their Australasian launch event in SydneyTo read the full entry, or make a comment, click here
View ArticlevBCA service - 20 August 2013
Major enterprise applications realise the benefits of virtualisationTo read the full entry, or make a comment, click here
View ArticleRace to the bottom of the world - 27 August 2013
Pat Gelsinger delivered the opening keynote on Monday morning to a hall packed full of the party faithful To read the full entry, or make a comment, click here
View ArticleDispatches from VMworld Day One - 28 August 2013
There was a really good session on the ins and outs of space reclamation in vSphere. To read the full entry, or make a comment, click here
View ArticleIs there anything new under the sun? - 06 September 2013
Recently we were asked "what is the value of Software Defined Storage, and is it just old stuff with a new name?"To read the full entry, or make a comment, click here
View ArticleViFX appoints Andrew Fox as new CEO - 04 December 2013
ViFX announced the appointment of IBM Global Technology Services lead Andrew Fox as their first Chief Executive Officer effective February 2014.To read the full entry, or make a comment, click here
View ArticlePaaS - Are we there yet? - 09 December 2013
As far as cloud technology goes, PaaS has been slower to get visible traction, mostly because its focus is custom application developmentTo read the full entry, or make a comment, click here
View ArticleThe art of cloud - 16 December 2013
Not unlike the forthcoming weather outside, clouds of the IT services variety are also gathering ominously. To read the full entry, or make a comment, click here
View ArticleHow to jump onto a fast moving train - 10 June 2014
Inherent to the nature of cloud technologies, are that advances are borne from experimentation.To read the full entry, or make a comment, click here
View ArticleVirtual SAN and the rise of distributed storage - 21 July 2014
Over the last six months we have been hearing a lot about VMware?s Virtual SAN solution, and how it will shake up the industry by providing the first true Software Defined Storage platform.To read the...
View ArticleThe charge of the cloud brigade - 04 August 2014
Last week Adam Dodds, New Zealand's IDC Research Manager published an interesting note highlighting the ongoing uptake of cloud services. While the growth highlighted will not be news to industry...
View ArticleTesting the hyper-convergence waters - 20 August 2014
By virtualising and integrating all compute and storage into one system, IT managers can say goodbye to misaligned refresh cycles, over-provisioned storage and ever-increasing complexity.To read the...
View ArticleEVO:RAIL - The fast track to infrastructure excellence - 10 September 2014
We?re definitely glad not to have missed an action-packed VMworld conference in San Francisco that saw VMware?s major announcement of EVO:RAIL. To read the full entry, or make a comment, click here
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