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Public Cloud Comparisons – Account Creation
I’m doing a little more structured work with public cloud, so have been going back and cleaning up and standardising the existing accounts I already have. The first thing is to create accounts that are company, not user specific. I like to use distribution groups or mailing lists for setting up accounts. They are more… Read more »
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Storage Field Day 14 Preview: E8 Storage
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 »
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OK, Google – Where are my Docs?
Hallowe’en turned out to be a real fright for some Google Docs users yesterday as access to content was blocked due to a buggy code push. The result was that certain content was flagged to have broken Google’s Terms and Conditions. As widely reported, for some users this could have been a real issue, had… Read more »
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Storage Field Day 14 Preview: EMC
Update: Looks like we’ll be seeing XtremIO again! (link) It’s over a year since I did a full Tech Field Day event. Where does the time go? Next week I’m attending Storage Field Day 14, based in the Silicon Valley area. Compared to most events, this one looks (at first glance) relatively quiet, with only… Read more »
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Windows Server, Release Cycles and HCI
The discussion on Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) seems to have generated a lot of interest and a lot of defensive posts. These posts seem to think that what has been written is either wrong or misinformation. Actually, the issue is poor communication on Microsoft’s part. However, what’s subsequently been said has left more questions than… Read more »
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Qumulo Releases QF2 – A Cross-Cloud Scale-Out File System
Over the last few weeks, I’ve talked a lot about data mobility and exactly how we should get data into the public cloud from on-premises locations. You can find links to the posts at the end of this blog entry. Much of what I’ve talked about revolves around moving data in a relatively static way,… Read more »
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DigitalOcean Introduces Spaces Object Storage Service
This week DigitalOcean introduced their own object storage platform called Spaces. Initially the service will only be available in the NYC3 data centre but is expected to be expanded to other locations over time. Build Your Own With so many object storage platforms already out there, do we need another? Well according to this blog… Read more »
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Flash Diversity: High Capacity Drives from Nimbus and Micron
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 »
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Scale Computing Moves Deeper Into the Enterprise With All-Flash HCI Nodes
Sometimes a technology captures your imagination and shows real promise for developing into something of real value for the customer. Scale Computing is one such company that has continued to demonstrate technical innovation and a continuning evolution in their platform. The most recent announcements bring to the market higher performance and capacity appliances, including an… Read more »