Cloud Data Migration – Data Transfer Using Physical Shipping & Appliances

One of the most interesting challenges with using the public cloud is how to get data into cloud storage platforms so it can be used with services like analytics or e-discovery.  One scenario is to use “analogue” shipping services to send physical devices like hard drives and appliances to the cloud provider. Shipping a Drive… Read more »

Dude, Where’s My 100TB Hard Drive?

It wasn’t that long ago we were being promised hard drives of unimaginable capacities.  I’m sure that at some stage triple digit numbers were being talked about.  However today we’re stuck with a “mere” 12TB of capacity per drive.  So what went wrong, or are we just being a little too hopeful? I did some… Read more »

Scality Introduces Zenko – A Multi-Cloud Data Controller

When I met with Scality CEO Jerôme Lecat last week, he was at pains to ensure that Zenko – the company’s latest software product – wasn’t described as a storage gateway.  Jerôme sees gateways as protocol conversion devices, which as we will discuss is definitely not what Zenko is about.  So what is it exactly? … Read more »

Tintri IPO: What Next?

Despite a little hiccup and a delay of a day, Tintri Inc (NASDAQ:TNTR) finally successfully executed their Initial Public Offering of shares on 30 June 2017.  It looks like the extra day was used to rethink the opening share price, which reduced from $10 to $7 a share, netting the company around $60m.  So far,… Read more »

Pure1 META – Analytics for Pure Storage Arrays

It seems storage array analytics solutions are like opinions – everybody has one!  Pure Storage is the most recent entrant into the platform analytics game, with the introduction of Pure1 META at Pure Accelerate last month.  META claims to analyse the data from 1000’s of storage arrays, with over 7 petabytes of stored data and… Read more »

DataGravity Pointed The Way to Data Rather Than Storage Management

It’s interesting to see The Register report that DataGravity, a storage startup has been acquired.  At this stage there are rumours, but as yet the buyer has not been officially identified.  As a concept the company pushed a sensible idea; know more about the data your are storing to be able to offer value-add data… Read more »

Pure Accelerate: FlashArray Gets Synchronous Replication

Synchronous replication is a key feature that many enterprises depend on for data protection as it offers the ability to ensure data is 100% copied to a remote site in the event of a disaster.  On flash storage, sync replication may seem a little at odds with the idea of providing high performance, but the… Read more »

HPE 3PAR and Nimble – Finding that Differentiating Niche

Update: I initially wrote this post and had it in draft for publication, however my views were changed by an announcement made today (see later in the post) I had some interesting feedback from one of my recent previous posts, in which I suggested that HPE might be planning to retire the 3PAR platform in… Read more »

Has Dell EMC Redesigned XDP on XtremIO?

Earlier this month Dell EMC announced XtremIO X2, the next generation hardware platform of their once flagship all-flash storage offering.  With the new systems, storage capacity per node has been increased from 25 to 72 drives.  The numbers quoted for initial deployments and upgrades seems to counter the original design of data protection on XtremIO,… Read more »

Recent Cyber Attacks Show a Massive Misunderstanding About Technology

The cyber attack affecting a large part of the UK NHS (and also more globally) has been widely reported over the weekend.  As usual, I find myself screaming at the TV, due to the misdirection being put forward by the media as to the causes and solution to the problem.  This morning I read an… Read more »

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  • Cloud Data Migration – Data Transfer Using Physical Shipping & Appliances

    One of the most interesting challenges with using the public cloud is how to get data into cloud storage platforms so it can be used with services like analytics or e-discovery.  One scenario is to use “analogue” shipping services to send physical devices like hard drives and appliances to the cloud provider. Shipping a Drive… Read more »

  • Dude, Where’s My 100TB Hard Drive?

    It wasn’t that long ago we were being promised hard drives of unimaginable capacities.  I’m sure that at some stage triple digit numbers were being talked about.  However today we’re stuck with a “mere” 12TB of capacity per drive.  So what went wrong, or are we just being a little too hopeful? I did some… Read more »

  • Scality Introduces Zenko – A Multi-Cloud Data Controller

    When I met with Scality CEO Jerôme Lecat last week, he was at pains to ensure that Zenko – the company’s latest software product – wasn’t described as a storage gateway.  Jerôme sees gateways as protocol conversion devices, which as we will discuss is definitely not what Zenko is about.  So what is it exactly? … Read more »

  • Tintri IPO: What Next?

    Despite a little hiccup and a delay of a day, Tintri Inc (NASDAQ:TNTR) finally successfully executed their Initial Public Offering of shares on 30 June 2017.  It looks like the extra day was used to rethink the opening share price, which reduced from $10 to $7 a share, netting the company around $60m.  So far,… Read more »

  • Pure1 META – Analytics for Pure Storage Arrays

    It seems storage array analytics solutions are like opinions – everybody has one!  Pure Storage is the most recent entrant into the platform analytics game, with the introduction of Pure1 META at Pure Accelerate last month.  META claims to analyse the data from 1000’s of storage arrays, with over 7 petabytes of stored data and… Read more »

  • DataGravity Pointed The Way to Data Rather Than Storage Management

    It’s interesting to see The Register report that DataGravity, a storage startup has been acquired.  At this stage there are rumours, but as yet the buyer has not been officially identified.  As a concept the company pushed a sensible idea; know more about the data your are storing to be able to offer value-add data… Read more »

  • Pure Accelerate: FlashArray Gets Synchronous Replication

    Synchronous replication is a key feature that many enterprises depend on for data protection as it offers the ability to ensure data is 100% copied to a remote site in the event of a disaster.  On flash storage, sync replication may seem a little at odds with the idea of providing high performance, but the… Read more »

  • HPE 3PAR and Nimble – Finding that Differentiating Niche

    Update: I initially wrote this post and had it in draft for publication, however my views were changed by an announcement made today (see later in the post) I had some interesting feedback from one of my recent previous posts, in which I suggested that HPE might be planning to retire the 3PAR platform in… Read more »

  • Has Dell EMC Redesigned XDP on XtremIO?

    Earlier this month Dell EMC announced XtremIO X2, the next generation hardware platform of their once flagship all-flash storage offering.  With the new systems, storage capacity per node has been increased from 25 to 72 drives.  The numbers quoted for initial deployments and upgrades seems to counter the original design of data protection on XtremIO,… Read more »