Cloud

On May 17 I had the fortune to attend an invite-only event held by Rubrik at their Palo Alto offices. The event, dubbed Camp Rubrik: Insiders Edition, was aimed at industry influencers and bloggers. Going into it, I didn’t know what to expect. I’m not a Rubrik customer, nor am I a partner. Aside from some great conversations with various Rubrik staff over there years at events like Tech Field Day or VMUGs, I really didn’t have much exposure to Rubrik. Luckily, I found out that I wasn’t alone in the regard. ...

In my last post about Oracle Ravello Bloggers Day 2, I mentioned the distinction between OCI and the Ravello Systems product. I wanted to take some time to dive a bit into what Ravello has been up to because there is some cool stuff going on there. If you happen to not be familiar with Ravello Systems, it is a cloud service where you can run VMs. OK, doesn’t sound special in this day and age, right? The differences become apparent once you start using it. The interface and approach strike me as being quite different than most offerings on the market today. ...

I was recently fortunate enough to be invited to the second Oracle Ravello Blogger Day. A previous blogger day was held in 2017, and although I couldn’t attend, the content I saw generated from it showed that it was a great event. I was excited to see how far Oracle, and by extension Ravello has come in the past year. With about 30 bloggers in attendance, of which about %40 were there last year, it was a great event. ...