We’re moving to a multi-cloud world, there’s no doubting it. I hear from end users and vendors alike that increasingly, IT organisations are looking to use on-premises and multiple cloud service providers. From an operational perspective, how do we protect and maintain ongoing access to data and applications? What’s the right strategy for dealing with… Read more »
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 »
It’s time to gaze into the crystal ball and think what might be on the storage agenda for 2019. What will the biggest storage trends for 2019 be? Let’s start with some easy ones. NVMe over Fabrics will be big Of course it will. All of the major storage vendors are already working towards supporting… 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 »
At the end of 2018, Dell Technologies Inc returned to the stock market with the conversion of VMware tracking stock into Class C Dell Technologies shares. It’s interesting to note that over 90% of Class V shareholders voted to receive cash rather than shares. However, as the cash return was limited (and paid for by a… 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 »
This is certainly a question I’ve been pondering for a few weeks since the announcements at VMworld 2018 and where Ray O’Farrell presented ESXi running on an ARM Cortex A72 device. Since my last post covering some VMware news, I’ve been asking – is there any logic in running a hypervisor on an IoT platform… Read more »