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Powering the cloud report – APTARE

9 November 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutes My briefing with APTARE, during the last Powering the cloud event, was with Nigel Houghton (Regional director of sales EMEA). APTARE is the leading independent provider of enterprise data center optimization software that helps companies maximize their storage environment, reduce TCO (total cost of ownership) and ensure that their critical data is protected. The company has a long history because was founded in 1993 by a team of enlightened computer software engineers that focused on designing and delivering transactional database systems that were massively scalable in two dimensions: capacity and performance.

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Powering the cloud 2012 report – Virtual Instruments

8 November 2012
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Reading Time: 4 minutes My briefing with Virtual Instruments, during the last Powering the cloud event, was with Skip Bacon (CTO) and Chris James (EMEA Marketing Director). Virtual Instruments is a company focused in Infrastructure Performance Management for physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments. The VirtualWisdom® platform provides end-to-end visibility into real-time performance, health and utilization metrics from the entire systems stack. Virtual Instruments drives improved performance and availability while lowering the total cost of the infrastructure supporting mission-critical applications.

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Powering the cloud report – Avere Systems

7 November 2012
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Reading Time: 4 minutes My briefing with Avere Systems, during the last Powering the cloud event, was with Rebecca Thompson (VP Marketing) and Bernhard “Bernie” Behn (Principal Technical Marketing Engineer). Avere Systems brings to the market NAS Optimization solutions designed specifically to scale performance and capacity separately and take advantage of new Flash-based storage media using real-time tiering. The company was founded on 2008 by a team of seasoned storage experts, and the President and CEO Ronald Bianchini, Jr. was a Senior Vice President at NetApp. Before it, he was CEO and Co-Founder of Spinnaker Networks, which developed the […]

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Powering the cloud report – Violin Memory

6 November 2012
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Reading Time: 3 minutes My briefing with Violin Memory, during the last Powering the cloud event, was with Garry Veale (Managing Director, EMEA). The company was founded on 2005, but has started with first products released on 2009 (due to the long research and development and the high standard quality reached before goes to the market). The main focus is build Flash Memory Arrays for Enterprise Data Storage (note that the target is the Enterprise, and actually not the SMB). In the EMEA region they have offices in UK, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain with more than 50 people. […]

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HP Discover Frankfurt – Why attend

5 November 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutes There is less than a month to the big HP european event. Here the top 10 reasons on why attend (from HP site): Vision: hear about HP’s vision for the future directly from Meg Whitman and HP’s top executives. Learn about new innovative technology that is shaping the industry and your enterprise. Strategy: understand how you can make big ideas happen in your enterprise with a strategic approach to converged cloud, information optimisation, security and risk management, and more. Technology: touch new products. See them work. Be there for the roll-out of the latest engineering […]

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November 2012 IT events

1 November 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Interesting European IT events: OpenStorage Summit – Online (Nov, 1 2012) E2EVC (Expert2Expert Virtualization Conference) 2012 – Hamburg (Nov, 2-3 2012) LinuxCon Europe 2012 – Barcelona (Nov, 5-9 2012) Gartner Symposium – Barcelona (Nov, 5-8 2012) Dell Storage Forum Paris – Paris (Nov, 13-16 2012)

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Powering the cloud report

1 November 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutes So also this event is gone. This was my first year at this kind of event and I think that was really useful and interesting, especially for the good meetings that I’ve got during those two days. I will post more about them on the next weeks.

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