Never throw away a good idea, they say (or at least I do). The same applies to blogs that haven’t yet crystallised into a worthwhile topic. Generally, I put them on the back-burner until a number of paths align. After seeing the Oracle Cloud team present at Cloud Field Day 3 in April this year… 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 »
It would be fair to say that Violin Systems (the former Violin Memory) has had a turbulent existence. Once the darling of the industry, Violin missed the all-flash evolution and fell on hard times, going bust and returning with new investors. Last year the new CEO stepped down to be replaced by Mark Lewis, previously… 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 »
For the past 20 years, Fibre Channel has been the dominant enterprise data centre storage networking technology. By this, I mean traditional Fibre Channel, not variants that work over IP or use Converged Ethernet (more on that in a moment). It’s true that other protocols exist. Smaller organisations have typically used iSCSI, because of the… 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 »
As the issues at TSB continue to unfold, I look on at an IT problem that will likely never be fully explained and eventually disappear into the archives as yet another “computer glitch”. Why does it keep happening, what’s wrong with the industry and how can we do better next time? Experience Who am I… Read more »
Wikipedia defines a service-level agreement (SLA) as an “official commitment that prevails between a service provider and a client. Particular aspects of the service – quality, availability, responsibilities – are agreed between the service provider and the service user”. In my experience, I’ve always seen an SLA as a contractual agreement for services, with penalties… Read more »
Kaminario recently announced that the company is moving to a software-based business model. Rather than build and support storage arrays, Kaminario will partner with Tech Data for logistics and essentially focus on the software part of their offering. Is this an admission of defeat or a sign of the times? A Hardware History Kaminario has… Read more »
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