Powering the Cloud 2013: Spectra Logic Black Pearl
During the last “Powering the Cloud” event in Frankfurt, I had the opportunity to privately meet some exhibitors. One of them has been Spectra Logic. I had the opportunity to talk directly with Matt...
View ArticlePowering the Cloud 2013: Quantum DXi
During the last “Powering the Cloud” event in Frankfurt, I had the opportunity to privately meet some exhibitors. One of them has been Quantum. I talked about their solution called DXi with Stéphane...
View ArticleStorage Field Day 4: CloudByte
I’ve been invited as a delegate at Storage Field Day 4 in San Josè, California. The first vendor we met was CloudByte. CloudByte is a company partly indian and partly american, with offices both in...
View ArticleCoho Data Deep Dive: the future of storage, now.
I've been invited to Storage Field Day, during its 4th edition in San Josè, California. I met Coho Data at their offices in Sunnyvale. This post is a really detailed review, and as you will see also a...
View ArticleGridStore, a storage dedicated to Windows
I've been invited to Storage Field Day 4 in San Josè, California. One of the vendors I met has been GridStore. GridStore is located in Mountain View, CA, and has been founded in 2009. They have a...
View ArticleAdd a Flash storage in an existing environment
I'm reading lately a huge amount of informations regarding Slash storage. Articles, blogs, whitepapers, written by analysts, bloggers and companies that produce and sell any solution based on NAND...
View ArticleStorage Field Day 4: Avere Systems
I’ve been invited as a delegate to Storage Field Day, in its 4th edition in San Josè, California. I met Avere Systems and I learned about their solution; our host has been their CEO and founder, Ron...
View ArticleService providers ARE NOT large companies
I heard lately many presentations about virtualization solutions, being them orchestration solutions, or storage, networking or soemthing else, and the vendors selling them have a usual phrase "this...
View ArticleQoS: the next “Big Thing” in storage?
In the last months I talked with or looked at several storage vendors, and I saw a new topic becoming more and more important: QoS (Quality of Service). The list of vendors offering this feature (with...
View ArticleMe too!
Whenever a new technology is launched, there is (almost everytime) a clear inventor of it, the one who first had the idea in his/her mind and was able to make it something real. As soon as others...
View ArticleAn introduction to Microsoft Scale Out File Server
Last week I attended the E2EVC Conference in Brussels. It’s an independent conference about virtualization, filled with technical sessions about many different technologies and platforms: there were...
View ArticleHas Flash PCIe market reached the peak?
Whenever there is a new idea, a new movement, a new music style, any new thing in any aspect of life, we can observe more or less the same timelines during its lifecylce. These days, I’m starting to...
View ArticleYour next storage tier? Your volatile memory
In a previous post, I talked about the evolution of the Flash memory market, and how some software solutions are starting to change the way we consume storage. Whenever a new hardware technology comes...
View ArticleCloud storage? It’s all about compute
One of the fastest growing business in the service provider space is with any doubt BaaS: Backup as a Service. but for enterprises and mid-market customers to become an effective solution, these...
View ArticleErasure Coding: the best data protection for scaling-out?
I’ve always been a fan of scale-out storage solutions, and I’ve always preached about them. As data is skyrocketing, the best viable way to cope with this growth is having a system that can be scaled...
View ArticleVVOLs are more than just “per-VM”storage volumes
As I’m following closely the growth and evolution of this new technology for vSphere environments, I’ve found an article on the blogosphere and some additional comments on Twitter that made me re-think...
View ArticleIs AWS an all-flash storage vendor?
Looking at the latest announcements and the history of the behemoth of public cloud services, probably yes. And a leading one. The original post of this article is here: Is AWS an all-flash storage...
View Article3D TLC NAND flash, your new SATA disk
In 2014, in a presentation I’ve done, I’ve said to people that in 2-3 years new and cheaper flash memory would have become the stardard solution for general purpose disk storage, thanks to a price per...
View ArticleThe war for the public cloud is claiming its victims
Latest news about telecommunication companies and their struggles against giant cloud service providers show how the war for the public cloud is at its peak, and we are starting to see the first...
View ArticleNetflix runs 100% on AWS now
Netflix decided in 2008 that its new business model would have been the complete consumption of public cloud, specifically AWS. It took 8 years to the leader in Video Streaming to complete the...
View ArticleWindows 2016 and Storage Spaces as a Veeam backup repository
As Microsoft Windows 2016 is now finally generally available, people are starting to seriously looking at its features, and no doubt S2D together with the new ReFS 3.1 is one of the hot topics. I've...
View ArticleThe new Ceph 12.2 Luminous and its BlueStore storage backend
With the release of Ceph Luminous 12.2 and its new BlueStore storage backend finally declared stable and ready for production, it was time to learn more about this new version of the open-source...
View ArticlePowering the Cloud 2013: Spectra Logic Black Pearl
Durante la mia recente partecipazione all’evento “Powering the Cloud” a Francoforte, ho avuto la possibilità di avere degli incontri privati con diverse società presenti. Una di queste è stata...
View ArticlePowering the Cloud 2013: Quantum DXi
Durante la mia recente partecipazione all’evento “Powering the Cloud” a Francoforte, ho avuto la possibilità di avere degli incontri privati con diverse società presenti. Una di queste è stata Quantum....
View ArticleStorage Field Day 4: CloudByte
Sono stato invitato a partecipare in qualità di delegato allo Storage Field Day, nella sua quarta edizione in quel di San Josè, California. Il primo produttore che abbiamo incontrato è stato CloudByte....
View ArticleCoho Data Deep Dive: il futuro dello storage, adesso.
Sono stato invitato a partecipare in qualità di delegato allo Storage Field Day, nella sua quarta edizione in quel di San Josè, California. Ho potuto incontrare Coho Data presso i loro uffici a...
View ArticleGridStore, uno storage dedicato a Windows
Sono stato invitato a partecipare in qualità di delegato allo Storage Field Day, nella sua quarta edizione in quel di San Josè, California. Il secondo produttore che abbiamo incontrato è stato...
View ArticleAggiungere uno storage Flash in un ambiente esistente
Sto leggendo ultimamente una enorme mole di informazioni riguardanti lo storage Flash. Articoli, blog, whitepaper prodotti da analisti, blogger e dalle stesse aziende che producono una qualsiasi...
View ArticleStorage Field Day 4: Avere Systems
Sono stato invitato a partecipare in qualità di delegato allo Storage Field Day, nella sua quarta edizione in quel di San Josè, California. Ho potuto incontrare Avere Systems e parlare con loro delle...
View ArticleI service providers NON sono grandi aziende
Sento spesso parlare di nuove soluzioni di virtualizzazione, siano essere relative a software di orchestrazione, piuttosto che prodotti storage, networking, servers o altro, da parte dei vari...
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