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 »
On the day the Dell/EMC acquisition/merger completed, HPE announced it was selling off a load of non-core software assets in a “spin-off” merger with UK’s Micro Focus. HPE gets $2.5 billion in cash and HPE shareholders get a 50.1% ownership of the new entity, which will continue to be called Micro Focus. In addition SUSE… Read more »
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