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 »
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 »
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