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Rethinking Storage For Microservices
The New Stack had a very interesting article this week that talked about rethinking the way storage is mapped to microservices like containers. The discussion took me back 12+ months to my own attempts to raise money for a startup that addressed the issues raised in the article. I’m still not sure that the issues… Read more »
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Pure Storage Acquires StorReduce
Congratulations to the folks at StorReduce for being acquired by Pure Storage. Although terms of the deal were not disclosed, hopefully, this represents a successful exit for an interesting technology. Background I first looked at StorReduce in March 2015, including a trial of the software. The premise of the technology is simple. StorReduce acts as… Read more »
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What Next for Violin Systems?
It would be fair to say that Violin Systems (the former Violin Memory) has had a turbulent existence. Once the darling of the industry, Violin missed the all-flash evolution and fell on hard times, going bust and returning with new investors. Last year the new CEO stepped down to be replaced by Mark Lewis, previously… Read more »
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The Shifting Storage Investment Paradigm
The standard evolution for startup vendors in the storage market has been to create a product, build a customer base and wait to be acquired or float the company in an IPO. Some companies have been more successful than others. XtremIO for example was acquired very early – great for the VCs that put up… Read more »
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Is AWS Moving to Private Cloud with Snowball Edge and EC2?
At a recent AWS Summit in New York, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of EC2 on Snowball Edge devices. Does this move represent a challenge for private cloud and could it be the start of a hybrid strategy for the company? Snowball Edge In case you’ve not seen it before, the Snowball is a… Read more »
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Pure Storage AIRI – CI for AI
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) are two of the biggest buzzwords in the tech industry at the moment. The technologies have wide application, much greater than the often-repeated stories about self-driving cars. ML/AI solutions can be used in healthcare to improve diagnostics. It has applications across the financial world, allowing companies to be more… Read more »
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Is Your Flash Storage Riding the DRAM Curve?
Interested in learning more about NVMe? Download our free 21-page white paper report (no registration required) here NVMe in the Data Centre The rate of growth in flash media is truly incredible. In ten years, we’ve gone from highly expensive SLC devices to a range of NAND flash media for all requirements. Flash manufacturers continue… Read more »
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Why Deterministic Storage Performance is Important
In the days of spinning media, I/O performance was anything but consistent. When mechanical head movement is involved, response time can vary enormously. Actually, the variation of I/O isn’t just to do with mechanics as we will discuss in a moment. However, inconsistent I/O response time is a problem for applications and as tolerances reduce,… Read more »
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Samsung Introduces 8TB NF1 NVMe SSDs
Samsung has recently announced an 8TB NF1 format NVMe SSD. NF1 was originally called NGSFF (Next Generation Small Form Factor) and is intended as a replacement for the existing M.2 format drives. With 15K and 10K drives disappearing from the market, is it time to accept we should move on from legacy HDD drive sizes?… Read more »