Tag: NetApp
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NetApp to Acquire SolidFire for $870 Million – GeekFluent’s Thoughts
Yesterday, NetApp announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SolidFire for $870 Million in an all-cash bid. SolidFire is a privately-held storage company who makes an All-Flash array based on a scale-out architecture. I’m a big fan of both SolidFire and their Element X operating system (available as a software-only option)…
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Enhancement to VAAI-NAS in vSphere 5.1
I’ve already done a write-up of the VAAI-NAS features in vSphere 5.0, but one of the three VAAI NAS primitives has expanded functionality in vSphere 5.1. In vSphere 5.1, the NFS File Cloning primitive is expanded to allow array-based snapshots to be used for virtual machines and vApps being fast-provisioned by vCloud Director. When vCloud…
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CloudSlam 2011 Multi-vendor Panel on the Future of Storage for the Cloud
I had the opportunity last week to sit in on a CloudSlam multi-vendor panel session on the future of storage in the cloud. It was a very interesting and revealing discussion. I’ll do my best to summarize it here and share my thoughts and conclusions. What is CloudSlam? CloudSlam is a virtual conference, an online…