Sitting on the sidelines, I’ve been watching some of the traffic and communications coming from VeeamON this week. Chris Mellor just posted a quick article summing up the ambitions of Veeam as a company. It struck me that we continue to conflate the idea of data protection and data mobility. To me, these are two… Read more »
Following their introduction on Microsoft Azure last year, native NetApp Cloud Volumes are to be made available through Google Cloud Platform. NetApp now offers Cloud Volumes in some form on the three major (Western) cloud providers, AWS, Azure and GCP. How should we view this, especially in respect of how cloud services are evolving? Maturity… Read more »
Vendors like to claim that their software is “1-click” or installable within 30 seconds. In general these claims are pretty fatuous unless you’re either frequently deploying or looking to automate. I’ve been spending a bit of time looking at a range of storage solutions that are fully software-defined and seeing how easy that deployment process… Read more »
It’s Dell Technologies World this week in Las Vegas and the first announcement of interest is the future offering of the Isilon NAS platform on Google Cloud Platform. The details of Isilon Cloud on GCP are scant, to say the least. All I’ve found so far is this community post (link). With little to go… Read more »
Technology is a fickle business and surviving more than a few short years is hard to achieve. The industry changes very quickly, as the next greatest thing consigns solutions and products to being legacy, even if they are still running many organisations’ core business. Storage has evolved to be a major part of any IT… Read more »
For the past few months, I’ve been working with the idea of building a model for the adoption of hybrid cloud. Some people may say that hybrid is already here, but I think what we see today is a set of tactical implementations. Instead, we need a bolder vision of what the use of hybrid… Read more »
All technology evolves over time and backup is no different. I started protecting data with tapes – the kind that are stored on reels as shown in this lovely picture I took at the Computer History Museum recently. While at Cloud Field Day 3 last week we saw three different facets to how backup is… Read more »
Amazon Web Services recently introduced a new class of S3 Object storage called S3 One-Zone Infrequent Access. This extends the options for S3 to four levels of availability and associated cost. What is the point of introducing another option and what could it be used for? S3 Options Until now there were three S3 classes. … Read more »
This post is one of a series of previews of companies presenting at Cloud Field Day 3, an invitation-only event in Silicon Valley, taking place 4-6 April 2018. For more information, see the dedicated CFD3 events page https://blog.architecting.it/events/cloud-field-day-3/. There’s a very interesting theme to the presenters at CFD3 and that highlights one of the challenges of… Read more »
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