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Cloud Will Not Consume IT – Apparently
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 »
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Cache or Tier – Does it Matter?
Who would have thought such an innocent comment would have created a stream of conversation? Well, that’s what happened after I called out the Avere folks on the use of the term “tiered file system” during their presentation at Storage Field Day 11. We even followed the discussion with a podcast, in an attempt to flesh… Read more »
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Storage Field Day 11 Previews: Intel, HGST
This is the second of two posts previewing the presenters at Storage Field Day 11, due to take place in San Jose 5-7 October 2016. In my previous post I discussed how the three companies in question (Avere, Primary Data and Scality) were focused on software-based data management. In this post I cover the two… Read more »
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Storage Field Day 11 Previews: Avere, Primary Data, Scality
In the past I’ve attempted to write a single post for each vendor as a preview to Tech Field Day. This time at Storage Field Day 11, for brevity, I’ve decided to divide the presenters into two groups. Trying to find some connection between the vendors isn’t easy, but there is some bizarre logic here…. Read more »
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M.2 SSD Drive Format is Under-rated by Enterprise Storage
Last week I was reading this article on Ars Technica discussing the latest Samsung M.2 format drives to hit the market. In something similar to a DIMM format, you get up to 2TB of capacity and read/write speeds of 3.5GB/s and 2.1GB/s respectively. M.2 comes in a range of sizes and was originally developed for… Read more »
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NetApp, Storage Class Memory and Hyperconvergence
Chris Mellor at The Register has an interesting article following up on rumours of NetApp moving into the hyper-convergence market. This intention shouldn’t be a surprise in some respects. As the storage market fragments, the incumbents have to adapt to the needs of customers and hyper-converged systems are – by any measure – popular. Storage… Read more »
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Unreliable Disks for Better Scale-out Storage
Recently I was asked to review a document that used as a reference a piece of work from Google which talked about the need to relax the resiliency levels of hard drives and SSDs. The premise is interesting; hyper-scalers claim they could do a better job in managing performance and availability if the HDDs they… Read more »
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HPE Sells off “Non-Core” Software Assets
On the day the Dell/EMC acquisition/merger completed, HPE announced it was selling off a load of non-core software assets in a “spin-off” merger with UK’s Micro Focus. HPE gets $2.5 billion in cash and HPE shareholders get a 50.1% ownership of the new entity, which will continue to be called Micro Focus. In addition SUSE… Read more »
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Object Storage Leading the Advancement of Software Defined Storage
Software Defined Storage (SDS) is one of those terms that has been readily hijacked by vendors over the past few years. The term developed from the adoption of Software Defined Networking (SDN), used to define the separation of control and data traffic in the networking world that provides the abstraction needed to deliver more efficient… Read more »