Here’s a little extra podcast Matt Leib and I recorded this afternoon in preparation for Storage Field Day 18. You can tell this wasn’t recorded in a studio, but actually Matt’s hotel room! Matt preps coffee in his mini-Nespresso device while we discuss each of the presenting vendors. The discussion is ad-hoc, off the cuff… Read more »
As we move into 2019, storage performance becomes more important than ever. At the media level, vendors are pushing the boundaries with fast solid-state technologies like NAND flash and 3D-Xpoint. These products provide performance capabilities we’ve never seen before. Storage system vendors then take components and build storage solutions, either as bespoke hardware or part… Read more »
This is a guest post by Paul Stringfellow from Gardner Systems and was originally posted at “Building a modern data platform – The Storage” where you can also find Paul’s “Tech Interviews” podcast. It probably isn’t a surprise to anyone who has read my blogs previously to find out that when it comes to the… Read more »
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 »
Following their introduction on Microsoft Azure last year, native NetApp Cloud Volumes are to be made available through Google Cloud Platform. NetApp now offers Cloud Volumes in some form on the three major (Western) cloud providers, AWS, Azure and GCP. How should we view this, especially in respect of how cloud services are evolving? Maturity… Read more »
Technology is a fickle business and surviving more than a few short years is hard to achieve. The industry changes very quickly, as the next greatest thing consigns solutions and products to being legacy, even if they are still running many organisations’ core business. Storage has evolved to be a major part of any IT… Read more »
This week Kaminario announced a software-defined storage offering called Cloud Fabric, which packages the company’s storage software for cloud service providers. E8 Storage announced a software-only version of the company’s flagship product that can run on pre-qualified hardware platforms. Has the golden age of Software Defined Storage finally arrived? Software First In some respects, the… Read more »
One not-so-obvious presentation at NetApp Insight in Berlin (November 2017) was the announcement of NetApp Cloud Orchestrator. This is a tool to manage not only storage but also compute resources across public cloud providers. The technology comes from the acquisition of Greenqloud earlier this year. Joe CaraDonna presented the use of Cloud Orchestrator on-stage to… Read more »
I hadn’t realised that NetApp acquired Plexistor earlier this year. Depending on which site you look at, the acquisition was a pretty cheap $20m or $32m, based on an A-round investment of around $4.5m in September 2014. NetApp demonstrated application acceleration using the Plexistor technology at Insight in Berlin last week (see the day 2… Read more »
