Speed and automation is a high priority for many IT organizations. This is especially true when you think of your customers (employees or customers that consume your IT services.) Expectations have changed from months to years, to days and weeks and sometimes even seconds. If I can download an app on my phone and get […]
Category: Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Understanding vSAN/VxRail Capacity Management
Selfishly, I’ve wanted to write on this topic for some time. Mostly because I’ve found myself lost in the forest of abstraction that seems all too common in IT today. I remember seeing a tweet that said something to the effect, it’s scary how many layers of abstraction there is and amazing how we have […]
Utilizing HCIBench for Testing
Benchmarking for Proof of Concepts Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) remains one of the fastest-growing segments in IT. According to IDC’s latest release, HCI grew at 17.2% year over year and is now a 2.3 billion dollar business. Compare that to the external OEM storage market from IDC with a decline of 0.1%. I’ve been in pre-sales engineering roles covering […]