I hadn’t realised that NetApp acquired Plexistor earlier this year. Depending on which site you look at, the acquisition was a pretty cheap $20m or $32m, based on an A-round investment of around $4.5m in September 2014. NetApp demonstrated application acceleration using the Plexistor technology at Insight in Berlin last week (see the day 2… Read more »
I initially held off reviewing E8 Storage as we had a podcast scheduled with CEO Zivan Ori, which went live last Friday. Rather than make assumptions about the technology, I wanted to ensure I was giving some credit to the architecture. I’m glad I did wait because there were one or two fundamentals I hadn’t… Read more »
The desire to provide cheaper and greater capacity storage devices knows no bounds and has been a focus of the industry for the last 60 years. Following on from Seagate’s 60TB “concept” flash drive, we now have two vendors selling 50TB OEM flash drives from Nimbus Data. Let’s put that into context – the largest… Read more »
Despite all the recent noise around software defined storage (SDS), vendors still keep coming to the market with new hardware solutions. Over the past weeks we’ve seen new products from Nimbus Data and emerging startup E8. Nimbus Nimbus Data has had what can only be called a ‘chequered’ history. My first introduction to the company was… Read more »
This is one of a series of posts discussing the presenters at Storage Field Day 10, occurring 25th-27th May 2016 in Silicon Valley, at which I am an attending delegate. See links at the end of this post to other presenting vendors. Details of the event can be found on the Storage Field Day 10 page… Read more »
This is one of a series of posts discussing the presenters at Storage Field Day 10, occurring 25th-27th May 2016 in Silicon Valley, at which I am an attending delegate. See links at the end of this post to other presenting vendors. Details of the event can be found on the Storage Field Day 10 page… Read more »
This week IBM announced three new flash products, two of which are based on existing technology. Mainframe/Power customers got the all-flash DS8888, with the A9000 and A9000R models covering the rest of the market. What’s interesting about these latter two products is that they are based on Spectrum Accelerate, otherwise known as the software behind… Read more »
It’s been pointed out to me from time to time that I don’t give IBM a fair mention when talking about all-flash systems. According to Gartner, IBM are in the top right quadrant of the AFA MQ and therefore classed as leaders and visionaries. So, let’s spend a few moments to discuss their strategy and products. TMS IBM… Read more »
Flash storage (and in particular, NAND flash) has taken the IT world by storm and is quickly set to replace the majority of HDDs as the choice for primary storage systems. We now have every major storage vendor delivering all-flash solutions. Most recently, EMC finally showed more details on DSSD, a new product in the… Read more »
