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 »
I’ve followed Scality for a long time, through many previous presentations at Tech Field Days (see the further reading below) and at UK events too. I also recently presented at Scality SDS Day in London talking about the future of Software Defined Storage. So what is object storage and what do Scality do? Object Storage… Read more »
I recently met up with the CEO of Violin Systems, Ebrahim Abbasi, for a chat about the industry and the future of the company. Those who knew Violin Memory will be familiar with this company as it is essentially the assets and IP of the failed Violin, acquired by the Soros Group and relaunched as… Read more »
Hyper-converged infrastructure is a great technology for running a range of mixed workloads. With HCI how do you manage DR? Typically the standard solution might be to run up another cluster in a separate data centre and run both 50% active/active or have one purely for standby. What about running in the public cloud? With… Read more »
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 »
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 »
This is one of a series of posts discussing the presenters at Storage Field Day 10, occurring 25th-27th May 2016 in Silicon Valley, at which I am an attending delegate. See links at the end of this post to other presenting vendors. Details of the event can be found on the Storage Field Day 10 page… Read more »
This is one of a series of posts discussing the presenters at Tech Field Day 10, occurring 3rd – 5th February 2016 in Austin, Texas, at which I am an attending delegate. See links at the end of this post to other presenting vendors. Details of the event can be found on the Tech Field… Read more »
One of the attendees at TFD#8 was SolidFire Inc, another startup company focusing on selling entirely solid-state disk arrays. As you’d expect, they have their own niche and part of the market they are targeting with their all-flash drive product. So how do they compare to the competition and what’s their “unique selling point” compared… Read more »