In September 2018, NetApp acquired a little-known cloud services company called StackPointCloud. StackPoint offers a managed Kubernetes service that enables customers to build Kubernetes clusters across a range of public cloud providers. Why would NetApp want to acquire this technology and where could it be used? Containerisation First of all, let’s take a step back… Read more »
This week, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of Amazon DocumentDB, a MongoDB-compatible document database. For AWS at least, the database market has been heating up recently. With so many offerings to choose from, are databases the next land-grab for the public cloud? DocumentDB Let’s look first at the announcement of Amazon DocumentDB. This new… Read more »
I was interested to see that Red Hat recently decided to acquire NooBaa, a start-up developing an object storage platform. What makes this story interesting is not the NooBaa technology itself, but rather that Red Hat is acquiring yet another storage platform to complement those it already owns. Why add another to the list? NooBaa… Read more »
This is just a quick post to highlight the developments we’re seeing in processors at the moment. Intel has announced Foveros, enabling more efficient component stacking. AMD has EPYC, with more PCIe performance for external peripherals like storage. And of course, we’re seeing a whole host of ARM processors being put into public cloud. Let’s… Read more »
Elastifile has announced the availability of a fully managed scale-out file service for Google Cloud. This is more than just another marketplace offering. The company’s Cloud File Service is now fully integrated into the Google Cloud ecosystem. Storage is configured through GCP APIs and GUIs and billed by Google based on consumption. This is a… Read more »
As more an observer of the technology industry these days, something struck a chord with me as I listened to a recent podcast recording. Paul Stringfellow hosts a weekly podcast called Tech Interviews. In Episode 77, he spoke to Matt Watts from NetApp on “cloud first” as a strategy. The TL;DR of the discussion is… Read more »
One of the most tedious of tasks I’ve had to undertake over the years has been the planning and deployment of new storage technology. In that respect, I’m not referring to the physical installation, but rather the process of capacity planning, sourcing and agreeing terms on new storage capacity. Increasingly, internal businesses consume storage on-demand… Read more »
Congratulations to the folks at StorReduce for being acquired by Pure Storage. Although terms of the deal were not disclosed, hopefully, this represents a successful exit for an interesting technology. Background I first looked at StorReduce in March 2015, including a trial of the software. The premise of the technology is simple. StorReduce acts as… Read more »
At a recent AWS Summit in New York, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of EC2 on Snowball Edge devices. Does this move represent a challenge for private cloud and could it be the start of a hybrid strategy for the company? Snowball Edge In case you’ve not seen it before, the Snowball is a… Read more »
