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Who Will Be The First Solid State Array Vendor To Be Acquired?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last two years, you can’t have failed to notice that solid state storage is here and is here in a big way. Two weeks ago at TFD#8, we had presentations from two all-flash array startups, Pure Storage and SolidFire. I’ll have more specifics on these companies… Read more »
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Why Does Microsoft Hyper-V Not Support NFS?
I recently wrote an article covering storage for virtualisation and was surprised to find out that Microsoft does not support the use of NFS shares with Hyper-V. At first I thought perhaps I was doing something wrong and that my configuration was in error. But after a lot of lab testing and eventually finding some… Read more »
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So Your AWS-based Application is Down? Don’t Blame Amazon
After a busy day in London I returned home to read the news of issues in one of Amazon’s US data centre locations causing problems with EC2 and database (RDS) instances. It seems the services of many Internet companies were affected including Reddit, Quora, Hootsuite and FourSquare, Is it fair that Amazon should shoulder the… Read more »
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You can’t trust what you read on the Internet – Unless it’s EMC
Seems like Chris Mellor has struck a raw nerve with EMC and in particular Chad Sakac over this article he wrote for The Register. Unfortunately Chad’s response makes him appear more like a spoilt child than a marketing professional who’s prepared to take the rough with the smooth in IT marketing. Of course this isn’t… Read more »
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Enterprise Computing: The Slow Demise of The Hard Drive
Yesterday Nimbus Data Systems announced the release of their S-Class storage array. What’s different about this storage device is that it uses purely NAND memory rather than traditional spinning disk. With it’s arrival, we’re seeing another nail in the coffin of the traditional hard drive. OK, so the S-Class isn’t going to replace hard drives… Read more »
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Enterprise Computing: Thin Provisioning and The Cookie Monster!
The Gestalt IT Field Day was a great success in bringing together a mixture of delegates from varying discplines. Following the presentations from 3Par and Symantec, there was heated debate about the implementation of Thin Provisioning and the ability to reclaim released storage resources. This post covers the basic concepts of Thin Provisioning and more… Read more »
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Enterprise Computing: Why Thin Provisioning Is Not The Holy Grail for Utilisation
Thin Provisioning (Dynamic Provisioning, Virtual Provisioning, or whatever you prefer to call it) is being heavily touted as a method of reducing storage costs. Whilst at the outset it seems to provide some significant storage savings, it isn’t the answer for all our storage ills. What is it Thin Provisioning (TP) is a way of reducing… Read more »
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Whatever Happened to Hybrid Drives?
Over 18 months ago, I discussed in a post (here) the Hybrid Storage Alliance who were looking to increase the performance of hard drives by adding large amounts of flash to each device. But where are they now? A quick check on their website shows precious little information. In fact what’s on offer seems to… Read more »
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Invista
There’s been a few references to Invista over the last couple of weeks, notably from Barry discussing the “stealth announcement”. I commented on Barry’s blog that I felt Invista had been a failure, due to the number of sales. I’m not quite sure why this is so, as I think that virtualisation in the fabric… Read more »