Howdy! Phew, now that’s out the way, I was expecting writers block, but hey, no! Who is this fool you ask? Well let me introduce myself, My name is Phil Marsden and I have been invited by @rogerlund to start blogging my experiences, well at least my experiences in the world of cloud computing…
Splunk Announces Availability of Splunk Enterprise 7.0
Splunk Enterprise 7.0 is now available for download. Some key new features have been added to the latest release. These are: Metrics – which are sets of numerical, time series data are now treated as a first class data type bringing massive performance improvements such as up to 200x faster queries Event Annotation seamlessly unifies logs and…
Splunk.conf Coming
Hello everyone! It has been a while since I have posted. My new job role is completely focused around Splunk these days. Splunk’s annual conference is next week in Washington DC. I will be posting news and announcements throughout the week so stay tuned for some Splunk goodness. Sometime after the conference I will work…
Netapp ‘s Soldifire HCI Overview at VMworld 2017 – Tech Field Day Extra.
Netapp ‘s Soldifire HCI Overview. I had a chance to get a overview of Netapp’s new HCI Product while at Tech Field Day Extra while attending VMworld 2017. I’ve long been a fan of the Solidfire Technology. From the early day’s to after the purchase and the re-branding of the product into Netapp. …
Pluribus Networks Netvisor & Adaptive Cloud Fabric @ VMworld 2017 – Tech Field Day Extra
I had the chance to get a Netvisor And Adaptive Cloud Fabric Overview by Pluribus Networks at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld 2017. White box Networking has been main stream in the service provider world for some time. Plurbus has been strong in that space, but now more and more enterprise’s are looking for…
Druva – Infrastructure Data Protection
Druva – Infrastructure Data Protection I had a chance to have a overview with Druva at Tech Field Day Extra while attending VMworld 2017. Druva , on demand , at scale, and cloud-first. Druva is a as a service offering that includes the AWS costs. Thanks Roger Lund…
Kingston – NVMe Overview at VMworld 2017 – Tech Field Day Extra.
Today I’m at Tech Field Day Extra at VMword. I had the chance to sit in on a presentation by Kingston. Overview of NVMe by @kingstontech at #TFDx #VMworld #vmworld2017 Kingston has developed and released a couple NVMe products with a read focus. Below are the slides highlighting the products. Kc1000 card DCP1000 SSD…
Uila – A view into your data center.
I recently had the chance to get a product overview of Uila. What product does Uila have? “Uila’s Application-Centric Infrastructure Monitoring Monitoring helps align business and IT Operations goals in a single product by providing IT Operations with the application visibility and correlated network, compute and storage insights for Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud-based Data Centers…
Big Switch – Big Cloud Fabric
A overview of Big Cloud Fabric Big Switch labels Big Cloud Fabric, the ” Next-Gen Data Center Switching Fabric” From the above Link. ” Big Cloud Fabric™ is the next-generation data center switching fabric delivering operational velocity, network automation and visibility for cloud-native applications and software-defined data centers, while staying within flat IT budgets.…
Big Switch – Container Integration
I had a the opportunity of a Big Switch and Containers overview. From the Big Switch Page above. ” Single SDN Fabric for Multi-Container Ecosystems. Big Cloud Fabric delivers network automation, deep visibility and rapid container-to-container troubleshooting in multi-container environments. Containers are a new atomic unit of computing that is ideal for emerging cloud-native,…