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Category Archives: Storage
I’m Going to Storage Field Day 11 #SFD11
Guess who’s heading to Storage Field Day 11? OK, you’ve already read the title, so you know it’s me, but that doesn’t make me any less excited about it. It’s an honor to be chosen as a delegate for an … Continue reading
Posted in Storage
Tagged Announcement, Gestalt IT, SFD, SFD 11, Storage, Storage Field Day
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Avere Systems Announces New Complete Storage Solution
Today, Avere Systems announced its first complete storage solution. Avere is known for their Edge Filers that virtualize NAS systems and/or act as a file-access gateway to object storage. The just-announced C2N solution combines Avere FXT Edge Filers with Avere’s … Continue reading
Posted in C2N, Cloud
Tagged Announcement, Avere, C2N, Cloud, NAS, Object, Storage, Virtualization
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EMC Announces New Mid-Range Unified Storage Platform – Unity
Today, at EMC World, EMC announced their new mid-range unified storage platform, called Unity. Some time last summer, I remember thinking that it was weird that we hadn’t seen a “Mega-Launch” event announcement from EMC. VNX2 seemed due for a … Continue reading
Cohesity Announces Cloud Integration for Their Storage Platform
[DISCLOSURE: Cohesity was one of the sponsors of the Storage Field Day 9 event (SFD9) that I was a delegate for. As such, they helped to pay for my travel, accommodations, and meals for that event. There was no requirement or … Continue reading
Qumulo Adds Erasure Coding, Predictive Analytics, and Three New Hardware Models
Today, Qumulo, a scale-out NAS vendor, announced a major new version of their operating environment, Qumulo Core 2.0, and three new hardware models. Qumulo is hybrid storage, meaning each node has both Flash and spinning disks. The Flash layer (in … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Pure Storage
Tagged BINGO, Buzzword Bingo, Buzzwords, Community, Pure Storage, Storage
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Pure Storage
Tagged Announcement, Flash, FlashArray//m, FlashBlade, FlashStack, Pure Storage, Storage
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
