Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

I love this quote from Richard Branson: Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple. Is there any place Mr. Branson's words are more relevant than our big data world ? I'm convinced that an important minor contributor to the business world being less data driven is the fact that we are not as awesome as we need to be when it comes to communicating clearly, logically and simply when it comes to presenting data.

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Paul DeBeasi

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Cisco has announced their intent to buy Meraki. Meraki provides wired/wireless LAN and security products all managed via the cloud. What does “managed via the cloud” mean? It means that the management server is in the cloud, rather than in the enterprise data center (see figure). The benefit of such an approach is ease of installation and management.

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Nutanix

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

With the lessons learned in the field we are now well capitalized and poised for much more accelerated growth and give our best shot to own the market for hyperconverged appliances.

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Paul DeBeasi

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Cisco launched their Connected Mobile solution today. What is it? In short, it is a method by which hotspot providers can advertise and deploy services to mobile devices before the device authenticates with the network and with little or no user action. Why should anyone care? Well, think about what you have to do to login to WiFi at a retailer, hotel, or airport.

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Nutanix

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Coming from a large IT consulting firm I’ve gone through a great deal of datacenter build outs, green field IT deployments and cutovers. Now from all of those deployments, what was always the biggest issue and caused the most headaches?

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Nutanix

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

With an introduction from the VP of marketing Howard Ting, former Palo Alto Networks dynamo, CEO Dheeraj Pandey kicked the day off with high level overview of the company and its vision for the future of the datacenter.

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