As primary data becomes ever more portable, we need to ensure that our backups have the same levels of flexibility to be moved, stored and used wherever we need them. Why is this important, and what features should we look out for? Data Protection in a Multi-Cloud World The Need for APIs in Storage and… 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
