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 »
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 »
Nobody likes to be wrong, least of all me, and it’s with fascination that I look at the news coming out of VMworld 2018 this week. I’m comparing the news to my thoughts on VMware’s future two years ago in my Peak VMware post. Did we reach peak VMware or did we actually reach peak… Read more »
The New Stack had a very interesting article this week that talked about rethinking the way storage is mapped to microservices like containers. The discussion took me back 12+ months to my own attempts to raise money for a startup that addressed the issues raised in the article. I’m still not sure that the issues… 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 »