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  • My Video Interview at VMware PEX

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    While I was at the VMware Partner Exchange conference in February, I had the pleasure of running into Josh Atwell. Josh asked if I wanted to be interviewed in the SolidFire booth. Naturally, I said yes, and asked what aspects of their product they’d like me to talk about. To my mild surprise, they didn’t…

  • EMC World 2015 Discount Code Giveaway

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    As in past years, EMC has given members of the EMC Elect community registration codes good for a $150 discount on the cost of this year’s EMC World registration. Thanks to the generosity of my fellow EMC Elect members Hrvoje Crvelin, Ian Anderson, Mohammed Salem, Fabio Chiodini, Brett Sinclair, and Rob Peglar I currently have access to…

  • Qumulo Comes Out of Stealth Offering Data-Aware Scale-Out NAS

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    I’ve let several people know that I’m traveling today, and I even told some folks that I was in Seattle, but it wasn’t until today that I can go public on why I’m here. Today, storage startup Qumulo came out of stealth mode. My company, Accunet Solutions, was involved in one of the first Qumulo…

  • SolidFire Announces New Hardware Node, FlashForward Guarantees, and Software-Only Offering

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    Yesterday, SolidFire released a hat-trick of announcements: The addition of a new hardware node to its all-Flash, scale-out storage platform The FlashForward program — a combination of a platform compatibility guarantee and an unlimited drive wear guarantee ElementX — the software-only version of SolidFire, designed for customers who want to build their own hyper-scale all-Flash…

  • Journey to EMC Elect 2015 (with Bonus Number-Crunching)

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    Today, EMC announced the list of names of those people named to the EMC Elect program for 2015. Now in its third year, the EMC Elect program seeks to recognize engagement with, commitment to, and leadership in the EMC technical community-at-large. EMC has been very active in reaching out to the Elect community, working to involve…

  • EMC Announces New High-Density Isilon Node – the HD400

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    Yesterday, EMC announced the addition of a new node type to their Isilon scale-out storage line. This new node offers higher-density storage than any other Isilon nodes, specifically 354TB raw capacity in 4U of rack space. The new node, known internally at EMC as “Colossus”, has been launched as the HD400. I’ll walk through the…

  • Storage Field Day 7 (#SFD7) — A Delegate is Me

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    I’ve been a fan of the folks at Gestalt IT for a while now. I follow them on Twitter, I read the stuff they post, and I’ve always followed their Tech Field Day events with great interest. If you’re not familiar with these events, I’ll give a brief idea here: these events bring together a…

  • Stealth Storage Startup Qumulo Closes Series B Round of Funding

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    Last week, storage startup Qumulo completed a Series B round of funding, gaining an additional $40 Million in investor backing — while still in “stealth mode”. This new round of funding brings the total amount invested in Qumulo to $67 Million. Qumulo hasn’t revealed much about themselves or their products publicly, despite having some customers…

  • SolidFire Announces New Version of Element OS – Nitrogen

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    Today, all-Flash storage vendor SolidFire announced the newest version of their array’s operating system, Element OS. In keeping with the “Element” theme, since this new OS version is the seventh generation of the OS, it is named “Nitrogen” — because Nitrogen is the seventh element on the periodic table. This updated software adds four main…

  • Avere Announces Software Updates, Adds Virtual FXT Filer

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    Today Avere Systems announced an update to the AOS software (version 4.5) that runs on their FXT Edge Filers. The big news in this version is the addition of a Virtual Edge Filer, the vFXT. Avere’s FXT works by placing an Edge Filer close to the end-user clients. The Edge Filer uses a global name…