Earlier this week I defended the Dell EMC Certification Master – Enterprise Architect (DECM-EA) qualification at Dell Technologies World. Unfortunately, I did not pass. A combination of an old design and not being as well versed in Cloud-native technologies as I believed led to that result. My intention is to
Dell EMC has announced the XtremIO X2 will now support replication (metadata aware). This was always an annoying limitation of XtremIO, so it is great to see that hole plugged.
Dell EMC has announced the availability of the PowerEdge “xa” model (Xtreme Analytics, “xd” was Xtreme Density), where the ratio of CPU to GPU can be 1:1. They also previewed the new PowerEdge MX platform, which is slated to be released in 2H 2018. PowerEdge MX is taking the lessons
Dell EMC has announced the next generation of the VMAX series: the PowerMax family.
Dell EMC has announced improvements to the VxRail and VxRack SDDC platforms.
VMware vSphere 6.7 has just been released as Generally Available. This a list of the new features and improvements:
Nutanix has released version 5.6 of their Acropolis Operating System (AOS). This is the next installment of their AOS “Obelix” release from late last year. This obviously also means that many of the supporting components of the Nutanix eco-system also have new releases to complement AOS, namely AFS, AHV, Prism
