VMworld 2017 and Las Vegas once again delivered as the top enterprise storage show in the world.   Announcements, acquisitions, huge parties, lots of happy hours, late night dinners, reconnecting with old friends, spotting old nemeses – all before the show really got going on Monday! The Kaminario #AllFlashSuperHeroes team rolled into Vegas fueled by…

As modern businesses are re-shaped by the forces of digital transformation, one of the most impactful trends is the adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS).   Perhaps most interesting is how the rise of SaaS is impacting the operations of both small-medium businesses as well as large enterprise.  In The SaaSification of Enterprise IT, I discussed how enterprise…

Kaminario’s technology philosophy is grounded in the principle that customers should be able to scale-out seamlessly with the newest generation technology – mixing and matching generations of K2. This is a vital component of our value proposition and important as K2 Gen6 enters the market this week. Legacy storage architectures are based on tightly integrated…

Storage has historically been managed in a vacuum with configuration and optimization done with a very insular, storage focused view. As applications become more complex and standards for user experience have only increased, application owners must look at every level of the application delivery stack – from storage to database to servers to network to…

Vegas is the place to be for events this fall. As I prepare for VMWorld, here’s why I am not looking forward to yet another trip to Vegas.