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 »
The cyber attack affecting a large part of the UK NHS (and also more globally) has been widely reported over the weekend. As usual, I find myself screaming at the TV, due to the misdirection being put forward by the media as to the causes and solution to the problem. This morning I read an… Read more »
This week, HPE offered to acquire Nimble Storage for around $1.09 billion, plus another $200 million in share options. Nimble sells all-flash and hybrid storage solutions, with a lot of intellectual property focused around storage analytics in the form of their “Infosight” SaaS platform. Commentators are seeing this as a good deal for both Nimble and… Read more »
Updated: AWS is pushing on with getting workload into the cloud directly too – see the new AWS Server Migration Service (link) Last week, VMware announced a new service called VMware Cloud on AWS (abbreviated by some people to VMC). I’ve been taking a little time to digest the news and views of others before… Read more »
Probably the most annoying and frustrating part of being a storage manager in the 1990s was the lack of decent management and automation tools. Each storage vendor had some good and some bad software for managing their arrays. EMC’s Symmetrix/DMX/VMAX range, for example, had a great and well thought out CLI management tool; Solutions Enabler…. Read more »
Public cloud will not consume all of IT, at least that’s what Michael Dell is claiming. In his opinion, cloud will become just another form of computing and a choice will be made by users to do cloud on-premises or rent from a cloud provider. Bearing in mind Dell is in the hardware business, we… Read more »
Earlier this year I was at HPE Discover in Las Vegas and talking to Calvin Zito (HP Storage Guy) about the latest IDC Storage Tracker results. Calvin posted on the Around The Storage Block blog, covering details on both servers and storage. He highlighted the fact HPE was now ahead of EMC in terms of… Read more »
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