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75% of exploring VMware alternatives.
But vendor lock-in + hybrid cloud fragmentation = paralysis.

HPE's CloudOps suite at #CFD24 showed a way out: unified control plane, KVM-based VMware alternative, real-time migration, AI-driven observability.

Choice without chaos.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-chaos-clarity-hpes-cloudops-vision-hybrid-control-jack-poller-rf7cc

From Chaos to Clarity: HPE’s CloudOps Vision for Hybrid Control

A Perfect Storm in Hybrid IT Enterprise IT leaders face a turbulent landscape shaped by two dominant forces: the surge of AI and the upheaval in virtualization. While organizations invest heavily in AI, their ambitions often collide with data complexity and fragmented infrastructure.

Jack Poller Nov 6

Pure Storage at #CFD24: "Storage silos are why you're drowning in spreadsheets"

Their fix? Fusion V2's fleet management + automated presets + drift detection

Result: One control plane for all arrays. Define configs once, enforce everywhere.

Deep dive: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-enterprise-storage-still-stuck-2010and-how-pure-plans-jack-poller-w8mme

Why Enterprise Storage Is Still Stuck in 2010—And How Pure Storage Plans to Fix It

At Cloud Field Day, Pure Storage laid out a case that most enterprises already know to be true: traditional storage architecture is fundamentally broken. But rather than simply pointing out the problem, Pure demonstrated how its Enterprise Data Cloud—powered by the newly redesigned Pure Fusion V2—ai

JimTheWhyGuy ❌👑Nov 2

Hey fellow tech enthusiasts! My final article on Hewlett Packard Enterprise from #CFD24 last week is ready for your eyes. Enjoy!

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hpe-optimizing-hybrid-cloud-success-jim-czuprynski-pi4uc

HPE: Optimizing Hybrid Cloud For Success

Our final presenter at #CFD24 last week, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), focused on their vision for IT organizations to take advantage of a hybrid cloud operating model to tackle the coming anschluss of complexity that Agentic AI is bringing, as well as whatever follows on its heels. Fortunately,

JimTheWhyGuy ❌👑Nov 1

Hiya, fellow enterprise IT enthusiasts! Have a look at my impressions on Pure Storage's new Fusion V2 offerings, courtesy of #CFD24:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pure-storage-fusion-v2-shifting-from-siloed-jim-czuprynski-owbec/

Pure Storage Fusion V2: Shifting From Siloed to Cloud-Focused Storage

During my 25-year career as an Oracle DBA, I've noticed that traditional data storage and its related architecture tended to be deeply compartmentalized and siloed, usually clustered around a few specific sets of applications and their requirements, focused on their required infrastructure. Pure Sto

Jack Poller Oct 23

HPE wants to help customers gain intelligence about their entire body of unstructured data

#CFD24

Jack Poller Oct 23

HPE using GPU Direct and RDMA to accelerate S3-type object storage

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Jack Poller Oct 23

Infrastructure isn't just software. It isn't just hardware. It's complete systems.

Here's part of HPE's solution

#CFD24

Jack Poller Oct 23

The marketing product name translator between HPE and Broadcom for virtualization

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Jack Poller Oct 23

We're in the age of AI, but we're still talking about virtualization because that's the heart of the environment.

What's the virtualization challenge?

#CFD24

Jack Poller Oct 23

Day 0/Day 1/Day 2 are marketing terminology for the mishmash of continuous day-to-day work of the IT practitioner, and OpsRamp helps with the "Day 2" monitoring, maintenance, and remediation of your hybrid cloud environment.

#CFD24