Who Will Be The First Solid State Array Vendor To Be Acquired?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last two years, you can’t have failed to notice that solid state storage is here and is here in a big way. Two weeks ago at TFD#8, we had presentations...
View ArticleSolid State Arrays: SolidFire
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...
View ArticleXtremIO (aka Project X) – Where’s the Innovation? (Updated)
There have been a few interesting articles discussing EMC’s anticipated release of Project X, also known as their XtremIO acquisition from earlier this year. Tom Isakovich, CEO of Nimbus Data has a...
View ArticleStorage QoS – How Hard Can It Be?
Following up from yesterday’s post and the comments received, I thought it was worth considering how hard it would actually be to implement quality of service within a storage array. Almost all storage...
View ArticleSolidFire Update: New Products and Review
Last week SolidFire Inc announced the release of the latest evolution of their all-flash storage platform, the SF9010. This new system uses 960GB 2.5″ using the same 1U form factor as previous models,...
View ArticleScaleIO, EMC’s New Baby
Keeping up the theme of innovation in storage (yes, it exists, you just have to look), earlier this week I had a chat to one of the UK folks at ScaleIO, the startup now acquired by EMC. ScaleIO are a...
View ArticleMoving On From Storage Tiering
One of the subjects that was raised again at last week’s A3 IT Question Time in London was that of storage tiering. To recap, the concept is pretty straightforward; you install storage within an...
View ArticleDo we need Storage QoS?
I recently had a discussion with a vendor (who shall remain nameless) as to whether we really needed Quality of Service in shared storage arrays. His thinking went as follows; if we have a storage...
View ArticleWhatever Happened to VVOLs?
Virtual Volumes, or VVOLs is a technology first introduced by VMware in 2012 to enable the VM-level application of policies to storage. In the 5+ years since the technology was announced, have VVOLs...
View ArticleIn Storage, Software is the New Hardware
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...
View ArticleWho Will Be The First Solid State Array Vendor To Be Acquired?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last two years, you can’t have failed to notice that solid state storage is here and is here in a big way. Two weeks ago at TFD#8, we had presentations...
View ArticleSolid State Arrays: SolidFire
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...
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