The idea of programmatically managing infrastructure provides capabilities to scale, manage and control technology much more effectively than can be achieved through manual methods. But the use of APIs means so much more than simply providing an interface that can be automated. APIs introduce greater efficiency and accountability into storage platforms. We look at how… Read more »
During our coffee talks at HPE Discover 2018, statements were made that claimed HPE 3PAR storage platforms wouldn’t benefit much from going to NVMe at the back end. Instead, the statement of direction is to use storage-class memory as a platform accelerator. I’ve been trying to understand why HPE isn’t making the move at this… Read more »
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 »
Towards the end of 2018, I was invited to attend HPE Discover in Madrid. In previous years, this has been a great opportunity to get up to speed on the storage strategy the HPE Storage team is following. What did we learn this year? Intelligent Storage Platform The message being broadcast for the last year… 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 »
This is a guest post by Paul Stringfellow from Gardner Systems and was originally posted at Building a modern data platform – what have we learned? where you can also find Paul’s “Tech Interviews” podcast. As I reach the end of this series, it raises the question “what have we learned?”. If you’ve read through it all,… Read more »
Earlier this year I was invited to Hitachi NEXT in lovely San Diego. As part of my trip, I took the time to learn a little more about some of the technology Hitachi has been working on and bringing to market either directly through Hitachi Ltd or Hitachi Vantara. You may remember that Hitachi Vantara… Read more »
Probably the biggest talking point this week is the announcement that IBM intends to buy Red Hat Inc, purveyor of the open source Red Hat operating system and an entire ecosystem of products around it. The acquisition is interesting, firstly because of the attention it has garnered, but also for the implications to public cloud,… Read more »
