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Cloud Field Day 3 Preview: Oracle
This post is one of a series of previews of companies presenting at Cloud Field Day 3, an invitation-only event in Silicon Valley, taking place 4-6 April 2018. For more information, see the dedicated CFD3 events page https://blog.architecting.it/events/cloud-field-day-3/. There are few people in the IT world who haven’t heard of Oracle. The company has dominated the… Read more »
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Cloud Field Day 3 Preview: Rubrik
This post is one of a series of previews of companies presenting at Cloud Field Day 3, an invitation-only event in Silicon Valley, taking place 4-6 April 2018. For more information, see the dedicated CFD3 events page https://blog.architecting.it/events/cloud-field-day-3/. Over my career, data protection has never been one of the most exciting areas for which I’ve been… Read more »
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Cloud Field Day 3 Preview: NetApp
This post is one of a series of previews of companies presenting at Cloud Field Day 3, an invitation-only event in Silicon Valley, taking place 4-6 April 2018. For more information, see the dedicated CFD3 events page https://blog.architecting.it/events/cloud-field-day-3/. NetApp has been an interesting company of late, with an evolving portfolio of cloud-related products. Historically, NetApp was… Read more »
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Podcast #1 – Serverless and Containers 101
In what might become a more regular series, I spent some time yesterday chatting with Christian Beedgen, CTO and co-founder of Sumo Logic and Alex Chircop CTO and co-founder at StorageOS. We recorded the conversation as a live podcast, which is an introduction to the concepts of containers and serverless computing. The aim here was… Read more »
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Rent Out Your Spare Disk Space With Storj
As I think I’ve mentioned a few times on this and other blogs before, around the late 1990s I looked at the practicality of creating a distributed storage platform that would act as a backup for personal storage. As the amount of data being personally stored was increasing (via photos, video and other content), being… Read more »
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Storage Market Shows Growth – But Not In External Arrays
It’s been about six months since I last looked at the IDC quarterly storage market figures. The latest data for 4Q2017 has just been released, so it’s time for an update. I’ve also found some missing data, which means I can show the annual growth figures for both 2016 and 2017, providing 7 years of… Read more »
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ScaleIO Becomes Software Defined on Hardware
Chris Mellor posted an article on The Register yesterday that follows up on the recent Dell EMC re-organisation. ScaleIO, originally a pure SDS (software-defined storage) play will now only be sold in conjunction with Dell hardware (in VxRack FLEX), as it moves into the server business unit. At a time when vendors are starting to… Read more »
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Modern Storage Architectures: Datrium
This is one of a series of posts that will cover new storage architectures for the enterprise data centre and form part of an Architecting IT white paper later this year. Storage platforms for primary workloads have generally fallen into a few standard categories, such as dual-controller or scale-out. With spinning media, the overhead of… Read more »
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Dropbox Files for IPO
It’s arrived. Dropbox, the ubiquitous file-sharing platform, has finally submitted a rather light S-1, indicating an Initial Public Offering is on the way. From the various reports written so far, it’s likely the company is intending to raise around $500m. Subsidies The first thing that leaps out at me when looking into the announcement is… Read more »