Colin's random tech marketing tidbits and thoughts
It inevitably happens every Pride Month – someone trolls one of my personal or our corporate posts harping that we shouldn’t be talking about diversity. And as an aside, so glad that there is a troll emoji in the latest update! I usually just ignore and block said 🧌, but this time, coming right back…
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(repost from https://www.weka.io/blog/) Today we announced the launch of our new global channel partner program – WEKA X – that lets our value-added resellers (VARs), system integrators (SIs), and managed service providers (MSPs) take advantage of a comprehensive toolkit of training, certifications, exclusive pricing, and incentives to streamline deal registration and help to build a…
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…and 5 Facts to Back That Up I started a new job at WEKA late last year and received a lot of compliments here and IRL. But every so often I would get a message or be pulled into a conversation that mentioned me working at yet another storage company which led to a conversation…
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(reposted from http://www.hitachivantara.com/blog/) Rapid, near-constant change is the defining state of today’s modern, digitally transformed business environment. As the past year has made painfully clear, it is time for a storage infrastructure and a storage strategy that can rapidly adapt. Such flexibility is essential to support the requirements brought about by new business conditions. Storage…
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(repost from blog.purestorage.com) I love my work and spend a lot of time talking to people about converged infrastructure (CI) with friends, colleagues and customers. While almost everyone I talk to gets the value of buying a pre-built, pre-tested IT infrastructure platform that can be online supporting business applications in hours instead of weeks or…
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(reposted from blog.purestorage.com) That we live in a world of constant change is a long accepted truism. Heraclitus of Ephesus, declared over 2,500 years ago that ever-present change is the fundamental essence of the universe – and this is doubly true for the technology realm. We have grown accustomed to new technology debuting at an…
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Reposted from blogs.vce.com on May 23, 2017 It’s been one week since we debuted The Great Xscape (Steve McQueen would be proud, I’m sure) at Dell EMC World. Now, perhaps you’re asking yourself “just what is an escape room?” It’s a real-life adventure game where teams of players work together to solve a series of puzzles and…
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Reposted from blogs.vce.com on May 19, 2017 How to fasten a seat belt, when to inflate your life jacket, where to find the closest emergency exit – as a frequent traveler, I listen to these droning pre-flight instructions (and the occasional snarky one) at least once a week. Surely the FAA can’t be serious with the…
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Reposted from blogs.vce.com on January 19, 2017 Faster than a speeding data packet! More powerful than a 3.5 GHz processor! Able to conquer complex deployment challenges with a single family of appliances! Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s– Ok… so maybe she can’t fly. But she sure knows her way around…
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