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 »
Back in August 2018, Pure Storage announced the acquisition of StorReduce, a start-up company with a nifty data de-duplication engine. That technology has been put to good use and now appears in ObjectEngine, a backup-to-flash data protection solution. StorReduce As previously highlighted, I looked at StorReduce in 2015 and was quite positive about the technology. … Read more »
“Build it and they will come” they say, or at least, something similar. So, Vast Data has built a new scale-out storage platform and hopes that customers will flock to adopt it. It’s 2019 – do we need another scale-out storage architecture? Amelioration I’m sure when we reflect on products that have gone before, we… Read more »
Pure Storage recently announced support for NVMe over Fabrics on FlashArray. The technology is implemented by an upgrade to Purity (the platform O/S) and installation of RDMA-capable Ethernet NICs. Pure has chosen to go with Ethernet as the first NVMe fabric offering, while other vendors have chosen the Fibre Channel route. How has this choice… Read more »
Occasionally a technology leaps out at you, not for the current capabilities, but for potential future value. That’s a feeling I had when I heard about NDAS or NetApp Data Availability Services. At first glance, NDAS looks like nothing more than a simple backup-to-cloud tool, but dig into how the data is managed and you… Read more »
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 »
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 »
