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What is a Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC)?

Posted on 25th August 2015 by Millennia

What is a Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC)? If “Cloud” is internet based computing, in which large groups of remote servers are networked to allow the centralisation of data storage and online access to computer services or resources, then “SDDC” is the method through which cloud services...

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To Appliance or not to Appliance?

Posted on 28th August 2014 by Millennia

Everybody seems to think they know the answer, but sometimes I wonder if they even understand the question. Hot on the heels of the launch of VMware’s EVO:RAIL, and somewhat more under the radar, Maxta has announced Maxdeploy, in which they seek hardware partners for their software only hyper...

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Nutanix – the Energizer Bunny of IT Infrastructure

Posted on 21st August 2014 by Millennia

“Software Defined” has become the epithet of the Nutanix solution, but you will always need hardware and hardware will always fail. Recently we installed a relatively new NX-3460 for a Proof of Concept (POC) with all four nodes showing as up and running in the Prism management wit...

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Nutanix, Dell, VMware – it’s all go in a converged world

Posted on 25th June 2014 by Millennia

First of all an update to my blog from yesterday: I am very grateful for an almost immediate reach out from Dheeraj Pandey, CEO at Nutanix, and a subsequent 20 minute phone call to discuss the concerns I had raised. This only goes to show what a different breed Nutanix is as an organisation from [&h...

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Nutanix and the deal with the Dell-vil – a personal view

Posted on 24th June 2014 by Millennia

First of all kudos to Nutanix for their internal decision to inform the channel prior to the press release, which meant I could make this article timely rather than days after the event. Few vendors consider their channel is anything to do with their internal decision making, and while we may have n...