Tag: Storage

  • SimpliVity Announces OmniStack 3.5 and OmniView

    SimpliVity Announces OmniStack 3.5 and OmniView

    Today, SimpliVity announced version 3.5 of their OmniStack Data Virtualization Platform and a new predictive analytics offering called OmniView. Introduction to SimpliVity Founded in 2009 with a mission to simplify IT infrastructure, SimpliVity is one of the “Names” in the hyperconverged infrastructure space. Their OmniStack Data Virtualization Platform can be purchased in one of two ways:…

  • Storage Field Day 9 – The High-Level #SFD9 Experience

    Storage Field Day 9 – The High-Level #SFD9 Experience

    Now that I’ve been back for a while and have had some time to reflect on it, I thought I’d pull together an overall impression of my experience at the recent Storage Field Day Event. I’ll be following up over the next few weeks with posts focusing on the individual vendors and their presentations. This…

  • How I Accidentally Became a Conference Keynote Guest Speaker

    How I Accidentally Became a Conference Keynote Guest Speaker

    Over the years, I’ve attended many industry technical conferences. I’ve been an attendee. I held a whiteboard session that was livestreamed over the Internet. I’ve done video interviews. I’ve been booth staff. I’ve given presentations in booths. I’ve been responsible for the entire booth. With all that, there are still a few things I haven’t…

  • Pure Storage Announces New Solutions and New Architecture

    Pure Storage Announces New Solutions and New Architecture

    Today, Pure Storage made several announcements: new product, new bundled solutions, and a brand-new scale-out architecture. These announcements were timed to coincide with Day One of their first-ever conference event, Pure//Accelerate, which I am attending. [DISCLAIMER: In the interest of full disclosure, Pure Storage provided me with a complimentary pass to their conference and also…

  • Storage Field Day 9 (#SFD9) Preview and How to Follow Along From Home

    Storage Field Day 9 (#SFD9) Preview and How to Follow Along From Home

    If you weren’t able to guess from my previous post about this, I’m very excited to be returning to Storage Field Day as a delegate for SFD9. If you won’t be there at the event, I figured you might like more info on the presenters and on how you can follow along — in real…

  • What’s New in Isilon OneFS 8.0

    What’s New in Isilon OneFS 8.0

    You may remember that back in November EMC announced new features coming to Isilon. Most of the message focused on the IsilonSD Edge virtual appliance, but a lot of the rest had to do with “OneFS.NEXT” (which we all expected to be numbered 8.0). About 3 weeks ago, OneFS 8.0 became GA. The availability of…

  • Confirmed for Storage Day 9 (#SFD9)

    Confirmed for Storage Day 9 (#SFD9)

    You may remember that I made my Tech Field Day debut last year at Storage Field Day 7. If you followed any of the video stream during, or any of the recordings afterwards, you’ll have some sense of how much fun it was and just how much information we received over the course of the…

  • GeekFluent’s Predictions for 2016

    GeekFluent’s Predictions for 2016

    It’s that time of year when it seems like everybody is doing “Top Ten ${WHATEVER} in 2015” or “Predictions for ${INDUSTRY} in 2016” posts. I was feeling left out, hence my jumping on the bandwagon. Rather than restrict myself to one particular technology or industry, I’m going to make my predictions across the different parts…

  • Nutanix Files Intent to IPO

    Nutanix Files Intent to IPO

    Yesterday, Nutanix announced that it had filed Form S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Form S-1 is what companies use to proposed creating an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of publicly-traded shares of stock. Nutanix intends to list its Class A Common Stock under the ticker symbol “NTNX”. The number of shares to…

  • NetApp to Acquire SolidFire for $870 Million – GeekFluent’s Thoughts

    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)…