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 »
As we move into 2019, storage performance becomes more important than ever. At the media level, vendors are pushing the boundaries with fast solid-state technologies like NAND flash and 3D-Xpoint. These products provide performance capabilities we’ve never seen before. Storage system vendors then take components and build storage solutions, either as bespoke hardware or part… 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 »
It’s time to gaze into the crystal ball and think what might be on the storage agenda for 2019. What will the biggest storage trends for 2019 be? Let’s start with some easy ones. NVMe over Fabrics will be big Of course it will. All of the major storage vendors are already working towards supporting… Read more »
I was interested to see that Red Hat recently decided to acquire NooBaa, a start-up developing an object storage platform. What makes this story interesting is not the NooBaa technology itself, but rather that Red Hat is acquiring yet another storage platform to complement those it already owns. Why add another to the list? NooBaa… Read more »
At the end of 2018, Dell Technologies Inc returned to the stock market with the conversion of VMware tracking stock into Class C Dell Technologies shares. It’s interesting to note that over 90% of Class V shareholders voted to receive cash rather than shares. However, as the cash return was limited (and paid for by a… Read more »
As more an observer of the technology industry these days, something struck a chord with me as I listened to a recent podcast recording. Paul Stringfellow hosts a weekly podcast called Tech Interviews. In Episode 77, he spoke to Matt Watts from NetApp on “cloud first” as a strategy. The TL;DR of the discussion is… Read more »
