{"id":1502,"date":"2012-09-15T00:08:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T07:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pogostorage.com\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2020-03-19T07:07:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T14:07:10","slug":"coming-clouds-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/coming-clouds-connect\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming down from the Cloud(s) (Connect)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>I\u2019ll take my Chicago Dog with a Side of Forbes, Thank You!<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>We just flew in from Cloud Connect and boy, are our arms are tired!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319 aligncenter\" title=\"Chicago Dog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Chicago-Dog.jpg\" alt=\"Chicago dog\" style=\"width:320px; height:240px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What a great show! \u00a0It was fun to be a part of the inaugural Cloud Connect Chicago &#8212; we\u2019ve always loved the Santa Clara show, and Chicago\u2019s event did not disappoint. \u00a0We got to meet lots of fellow cloud professionals, and had many interesting conversations about cloud and our Nexenta ZFS open storage offerings &#8212; they\u2019re a perfect fit for almost any cloud deployment.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: center;\">Our Chicago-area reseller, <a href=\"http:\/\/blackdiamondsolutions.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank;\">Black Diamond Technologies<\/a>, was there with us, too! \u00a0Black Diamond has experience deploying our Storage Director Nexenta products, and having them join us at Cloud Connect really helped provide a complete deployment package for our current and future customers in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-331 alignleft\" title=\"Forbes21\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Forbes21.png\" alt=\"Forbes\" style=\"width:246px;height:134px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And on top of all the Cloud Connect excitement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes<\/a> is talking about us!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tomcoughlin\/2012\/09\/02\/vm-world-is-a-flashy-place\/\" target=\"_blank;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Forbes contributor Tom Coughlin<\/a> summarized many of the exciting announcements at VMworld and we made the cut: \u201cPogo Storage announced their VMware certified StorageDirector powered by NexentaVSA as an all-in-one VDI (virtual desktop interface) plus SAN storage appliance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s great to be recognized by Forbes, among other top players in the storage market, at a show like VMworld.\u00a0As always, here at Pogo it\u2019s\u00a0onward and upward!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll take my Chicago Dog with a Side of Forbes, Thank You! We just flew in from Cloud Connect and boy, are our arms are tired! What a great show! \u00a0It was fun to be a part of the inaugural Cloud Connect Chicago &#8212; we\u2019ve always loved the Santa Clara show, and Chicago\u2019s event did&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-rackmount-servers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4497,"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/4497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pogolinux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}