Here’s a little extra podcast Matt Leib and I recorded this afternoon in preparation for Storage Field Day 18. You can tell this wasn’t recorded in a studio, but actually Matt’s hotel room! Matt preps coffee in his mini-Nespresso device while we discuss each of the presenting vendors. The discussion is ad-hoc, off the cuff… 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 »
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 »
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 »
As we approach the start of a new working year, it’s time to take the almost traditional and obligatory review of the year hence. So, what made the news and how does that provide us insight on the year to come? Big Trends There were certainly some interesting developments in storage and the wider IT… Read more »
George Crump makes some interesting comments in his recent article on whether today’s breed of all-flash storage arrays could survive for 10 years in the data centre. Whilst the logic of his comments make sense, I think there’s little desire to be using today’s all flash devices in 10 years’ time. There’s no reason to… Read more »
