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Recent Cyber Attacks Show a Massive Misunderstanding About Technology
The cyber attack affecting a large part of the UK NHS (and also more globally) has been widely reported over the weekend. As usual, I find myself screaming at the TV, due to the misdirection being put forward by the media as to the causes and solution to the problem. This morning I read an… Read more »
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SNIA has high hopes for Swordfish
Probably the most annoying and frustrating part of being a storage manager in the 1990s was the lack of decent management and automation tools. Each storage vendor had some good and some bad software for managing their arrays. EMC’s Symmetrix/DMX/VMAX range, for example, had a great and well thought out CLI management tool; Solutions Enabler…. 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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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 »
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News: Rackspace Goes Private with Apollo Global Management
In a deal worth $4.3 billion, Rackspace is being acquired by investment company Apollo Global Management for $32 a share. From what I’ve read so far, the press releases are putting a spin on it that implies the private route allows Rackspace to transform the company without the stress and attention of being a public… Read more »
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Hardware Still Delivering – New Products from Nimbus and E8
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 »