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 »
Probably the biggest talking point this week is the announcement that IBM intends to buy Red Hat Inc, purveyor of the open source Red Hat operating system and an entire ecosystem of products around it. The acquisition is interesting, firstly because of the attention it has garnered, but also for the implications to public cloud,… Read more »
I can only feel sympathy for the team at GitHub, after they suffered an outage recently, due to issues with database replication. The problem was caused by a mere 43-second break in network connectivity. We’ve all been there – keeping replicated data in sync is a thankless task and one that can be a nightmare… Read more »
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 »
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