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Category Archives: Storage
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Avere, Azure
Tagged Acquisition, Announcement, Avere, Azure, Cloud, Microsoft, Storage
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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. … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
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). … Continue reading
Posted in Pure Storage
Tagged Announcement, DirectFlash, Flash, FlashArray//X, NVMe, Pure Storage, SDS, Software-Defined, Storage
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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 … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Pure Storage
Tagged Announcement, Flash, FlashBlade, Pure Storage, Storage
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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, … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
