Ronin64

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[Ronin64 @Ronin64]

Beyond Cost Savings: The Strategic Side of the VMware Exit https://t.co/sRJatj0XQb

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Pay For Your VMware Exit with Refurbished Hardware https://t.co/WW8cmHd88h

[Ronin64 @Ronin64]

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"Taps" performed in Arlington National Cemetery (summer and winter) https://t.co/Yob29JaZca via @YouTube

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.”

― George S. Patton Jr.

[storageswiss @storageswiss]

Drive reliability should not be the deciding factor. Recovery behavior took its place.

Parity competes with production IO during rebuilds. Replication holds steady. Refurbished enterprise SSDs work when the platform absorbs the failure.

https://t.co/p5ZEZEBQtj

[Ronin64 @Ronin64]

VergeIO Delivers Kubernetes Support that Collapses the VMware Stack https://t.co/4MHp1RaLp3 via @korben

[VergeOS @VergeUCI]

Kubernetes on VMware created three separate taxes for IT teams:

• vSphere licensing
• Kubernetes distribution fees
• Overlay storage costs

Most VMware exits only remove one of them.

VergeOS changes the Kubernetes VMware exit math by collapsing compute, storage, networking, and Kubernetes infrastructure services into one platform decision. CSI, Cloud Controller Manager, Cluster Autoscaler, and Rancher node driver all ship as native Helm charts.

Rancher stays the management plane. The orchestration tax does not.

Read the blog: https://t.co/V2pqpYEBZB

#Kubernetes #VMware #PrivateCloud #Rancher #PlatformEngineering #CloudInfrastructure #VergeOS

[storageswiss @storageswiss]

Kubernetes solved portability for persistent storage. It did not solve operational fragmentation.

Most production environments still coordinate storage arrays, CSI drivers, snapshot tools, backup platforms, and DR tooling across separate operational domains.

This blog breaks down why Kubernetes persistent storage became more complex than most architects expected, and why unified infrastructure platforms are changing the operational model.

https://t.co/aEKmkI1Jcm

#Kubernetes #Storage #CloudNative #PlatformEngineering #VMware #DataProtection

[storageswiss @storageswiss]

Only 35% of organizations meet their recovery target.

The recovery time gap is not a backup product problem — it is an architecture problem.

Backup products solve data recovery. Most recovery operations fail on configuration.

https://t.co/XvFtZf4qbz

[VergeOS @VergeUCI]

Most VMware exit plans treat the backup tier as a hand-me-down decision.

That assumption is the source of more transition-window pain than any other architectural choice.

The transition window is the architectural problem.

https://t.co/MEFD7zmHin

[Ronin64 @Ronin64]

What Are You Really Paying To Stay With VMware? – Small World Big Data https://t.co/aKR9i2RBeB

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[storageswiss @storageswiss]

Most backup architectures were built for one generation of risk. We’re on our third:

Gen 1: hardware failure, floods, fires. That foundation still matters.

Gen 2: ransomware targeting backups. Air gaps and immutability became table stakes.

Gen 3: AI agents with valid credentials, operating at machine speed. By the time alerts fire, the damage is already spread.

These risks stack. Solving for Gen 3 doesn’t remove Gen 1 or 2. Your architecture has to cover all three. Learn how here: https://t.co/F8II67q635

[VergeOS @VergeUCI]

The "one more year on VMware" plan made sense in 2024. It doesn't in 2026. Server hardware just made the exit math even more compelling. New post: https://t.co/zD0K8O4LEc

[VergeOS @VergeUCI]

Ransomware doesn't care that you just exited VMware.

VergeOS rolls back entire virtual data centers in seconds. Veeam handles the next 60 days — compliance pulls, forensics, air-gapped copies.

Two layers. Each doing what it was built for.

https://t.co/y9iiHDcnCb

[georgeacrump @georgeacrump]

GPU virtualization has 3 models — passthrough, vGPU, and MIG. Most IT teams avoid MIG entirely because of CLI complexity. New beginner's guide in @TheRegister breaks down all three and what to look for in a platform. https://t.co/ezg6GjAYxx
#GPUVirtualization #PrivateAI #VMwareAlternative

[Ronin64 @Ronin64]

VergeOS Implements the oVirt Standard https://t.co/cHgz32IPru via @korben

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Company Profile: VergeIO https://t.co/WVDpHM6cXl via @korben

[Ronin64 @Ronin64]

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