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 »
The standard evolution for startup vendors in the storage market has been to create a product, build a customer base and wait to be acquired or float the company in an IPO. Some companies have been more successful than others. XtremIO for example was acquired very early – great for the VCs that put up… Read more »
Remember when converged infrastructure came in? We were told that packaging was the next best thing and doing things in separate towers of skills was bad. Now it appears we’ve developed Logo Addiction and should be looking to build things from scratch again. The basis of this thesis is a presentation at Interop ITX by… Read more »
Chris Mellor posted an article on The Register yesterday that follows up on the recent Dell EMC re-organisation. ScaleIO, originally a pure SDS (software-defined storage) play will now only be sold in conjunction with Dell hardware (in VxRack FLEX), as it moves into the server business unit. At a time when vendors are starting to… Read more »
This post title may sound a little controversial, but that’s far from my intention. Anyone who knows me will be aware that I started out in the mainframe era. I like the mainframe’s reliability and maturity of features, many of which took a long time to arrive in today’s IT world. However, the mainframe is… Read more »
Can this article on The Register be true? Has Microsoft removed Storage Spaces Direct from the latest Windows Server build? To be honest I’d initially not given this article much thought until I decided to have a look at the latest Windows Server build myself. I was interested to find that I can’t actually download… Read more »
I’ve been messing about with databases for a long time. I say “messing about” because I’ve never officially been a DBA. But as a systems programmer and storage administrator, I’ve been on the periphery of the application layer and of course I’ve deployed many personal databases. I was intrigued to read about the new global… Read more »
This post has been updated with details from HPE Discover 2018, where the use of Intel Optane is being described as HPE Memory-Driven Flash for existing 3PAR and Nimble products (see HPE blog). There’s been a lot of coverage and potential hype around the impending release of Intel and Micron’s 3D-XPoint persistent storage technology. Now it… Read more »
