Posts by ROIdude

Fujitsu, NetApp to drop it like it's Vblock: Year 8 is not 2000-and-late

VP Client Strategy Nutanix

Agree with Anonymous Coward - EMC had nothing to do with the invention of UCS. In fact, Cisco originally proposed the concept to both HP and IBM - hoping they would build it (with Cisco's assistance). The UCS did, however, become the compute platform not only for vBlock, but also FlexPod, Hitachi UPS & Nimble SmartStack. http://bythebell.com/2016/08/the-roi-of-nutanix-enterprise-cloud-on-cisco-ucs.html

And so we enter day seven of King's College London major IT outage

RAID

Amazingly, some HCI mfs are not only utilizing RAID, they're even bragging about it:

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8/25/16, 10:40 AM

#HyperConverged 380 has RAID which means no system downtime! #HPEDare2Compare #VMWorld hpe.to/6015BNqfl pic.twitter.com/F9bKUfHI8r

SDI wars: WTF is software defined infrastructure?

I would think that Cisco would have learned its lesson with WhipTail.