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Nimble Storage Reaches Successful IPO – What Next?
Disclaimer – this post does not constitute financial advice in any way and all information provided is purely for illustrative purposes. Last Friday, which was the 13th and clearly not unlucky for some, Nimble Storage Inc floated on the New York Stock Exchange at an opening price of $21. The shares did well, closing at… Read more »
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The Maturing of Flash Storage
It’s interesting reading the comments that we’re added to my post of last week, discussing the summary of all flash arrays, initially started by Vaughn Stewart and continued by HP storage guy Calvin Zito. Unsurprisingly, most of the negativity came from EMC and their resellers, who are defending a late entrance into the market. They… Read more »
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Avere Systems Embraces Cloud with Cloud NAS
Cloud storage is a popular subject these days, with some good and some bad examples out there. The appeal is obvious – data needs to be retained somewhere, whether it is of the primary, backup or archive flavour. Being able to do that at low cost (especially when a large percentage of that data is… Read more »
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6TB HGST Helium Drive Continues Move to Two-Tier Storage
Over the years, hard disk drives have steadily increased their speeds, peaking at 15,000 RPM, with only a fleeting attempt by Western Digital to push the boundaries up to 20K. As we know, at that point solid-state drives became more viable than faster HDDs and manufacturers have reined back their aspirations. Recently we’ve seen more… Read more »
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NFS Vendor Benchmarks – Caveat Emptor
This week we’ve seen an update on NFS benchmarks with Hitachi announcing their latest results (via Hu’s blog) using HUS File and FMDs (Flash Module Drives). Of course Hitachi wouldn’t be announcing if they hadn’t beaten EMC with the figures; no-one releases data that makes them look worse, after all. But what are the data… Read more »
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The Psychology of Pricing
It’s been another interesting week in IT. Following on from recent rumours, Nirvanix have finally publicly announced they are closing down, replacing their website with a single holding page directing customers to IBM. Yesterday, Violin Memory released their shares to the public and floated on the New York Stock Exchange. Unfortunately there wasn’t a lot… Read more »
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The Fall of STEC and Rise of Western Digital
In a news announcement yesterday, STEC Inc, makers of solid state flash drives (SSDs) announced a “merger” with (i.e. was acquired by) Western Digital, one of the leading hard disk drive manufacturers. It’s a spectacular fall for a company that at one stage had a share price of over $41/share in September 2009. However an… Read more »
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HP 3PAR 7450 All Flash Array
I mentioned in a previous post that I would delve a little deeper into what HP have done to optimise performance on the new 3PAR 7450. I was lucky to be able to catch up at the 3Par booth with Priyadarshi Prasad, who works in marketing for HP 3PAR. We took some time to talk… Read more »
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Defining Software Defined Storage
The term Software Defined Storage has generally accepted within IT as a process for delivering storage without the lock-in of hardware from the vendor. How has our understanding of the term evolved over recent years? It’s easy to use the examples of server virtualisation and networking as reasons why thinking of storage virtualisation for SDS… Read more »