Category: Storage

  • I’m Going to DisneyLand!

    I’m Going to DisneyLand!

    No, I haven’t won the World Series (although, if I had it would certainly be worth bragging about considering that I’m not a member of any professional baseball team). I’ll be attending the Nth Generation Symposium as a guest of HPE and as a Tech Field Day delegate. This is the 19th annual Nth Generation…

  • Microsoft Enters Agreement to Purchase Avere Systems

    Microsoft Enters Agreement to Purchase Avere Systems

    Yesterday, Microsoft announced that it had entered into an agreement to purchase Avere Systems, a maker of software and hardware appliances that can perform filesystem virtualization, file-to-object gateway services, and allow customers to easily connect their onsite storage to public cloud storage. If you’re a long-time reader of this blog, you’ll know that I’ve been…

  • Zadara Storage Offers Hurricane Relief to Business Hit by Harvey, Irma, or Maria

    Zadara Storage Offers Hurricane Relief to Business Hit by Harvey, Irma, or Maria

    Zadara Storage, a Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) start-up company, is offering disaster relief to businesses affected by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, or Maria. The relief Zadara is offering comes in the form of up to 1PB of free data storage for six months. This storage can be installed on-site, in the Cloud, or as a hybrid model. (I’m…

  • Summary of Monday’s Announcements at Dell EMC World 2017

    As you might have expected from a conference that was essentially created by combining two huge tech events (Dell World and EMC World), there were a large number of announcements made on the first day of Dell EMC World 2017. To help you manage the influx of so much information, this post will attempt to…

  • Pure Storage Announces NVMe DirectFlash and New FlashArray Model

    Pure Storage Announces NVMe DirectFlash and New FlashArray Model

    Today Pure Storage, known for their All-Flash Storage arrays, announced their next Big ThingTM, DirectFlash, as well as a new FlashArray model. DirectFlash is a combination of NVMe hardware and the software to manage it (more details on that below). The new array model, the FlashArray//X, uses exclusively DirectFlash as the storage medium. A Brief…

  • Qumulo Secures Round C Prime Funding – My Conversation with Bill Richter

    Qumulo Secures Round C Prime Funding – My Conversation with Bill Richter

    Today, Qumulo, vendor of the software-defined scale-out storage platform Qumulo Core, announced the completion a funding round of $30 Million. This C Prime round of funding brings the total amount invested in Qumulo to date to $130 Million. This new funding round was led by Northern Light Venture Capital and other first-time investors in Qumulo.…

  • Confirmed: I’ll be a Delegate at Storage Field Day 12 (#SFD12)

    A number of things had my status for this event up in the air for a little bit, but I’m very happy to announce that I am now officially confirmed as a Delegate at Storage Field Day 12 next week. I’m very happy about this. To me the Tech Field Day events have always been…

  • Pure Storage’s FlashBlade is now GA

    Pure Storage’s FlashBlade is now GA

    Today, Pure Storage, an All-Flash storage vendor, announced the General Availability (GA) of their FlashBlade, a scalable, All-Flash, NFS storage platform, as well as the GA of version 1.2 of Elasticity, the software that runs the FlashBlade. I wrote about FlashBlade when it was first announced in 2016. At the time I was very excited…

  • A Closer Look at the All-Flash Isilon, aka Nitro

    A Closer Look at the All-Flash Isilon, aka Nitro

    On 19 October, Dell EMC made an announcement about the All-Flash Isilon nodes. This product line has been code-named “Project Nitro”. The announcement was timed to occur during the first-ever Dell EMC World event. I’ll walk through what was announced, and then provide additional details.

  • Qumulo Core 2.5 is Now GA

    Qumulo Core 2.5 is Now GA

    On 15 November, Qumulo announced the availability of version 2.5 of their Qumulo Core software layer for their scale-out NAS platform. I’ve been involved with Qumulo since they came out of stealth approximately 18 months ago — I actually helped sell a Qumulo cluster to one of our customers while Qumulo was still operating in…