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EMCworld 2013 day 1
Lines for coffee at the Cafe were pretty long this morning and I missed my opportunity to have breakfast to do some work. But eventually made my way to the press room and got some food and coffee....
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Windows Server 2012 R2 storage changes announced at TechEd
Microsoft TechEd USA is this week and they announced a number of changes to the storage services that come with Windows Server 2012 R2 Azure DRaaS - Microsoft is attempting to democratize DR by...
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Peak server, the cloud & NetApp storage for AWS
I was at a conference a month or so ago and one speaker mentioned that the number of x86 servers being sold has peaked and is dropping. I can imagine a number of reasons for this and the main one being...
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Is object storage outpacing structured and unstructured data growth?
NASA Blue Marble 2007 West by NASA Goddard Photo (cc) (from flickr) At the Pacific Crest conference this week there was some lively discussion about the differences in the rates of data growth. Some...
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Who’s the next winner in data storage?
Strange Clouds by michaelroper (cc) (from Flickr) “The future is already here – just not evenly distributed”, W. Gibson It starts as it always does outside the enterprise data center. In the line of...
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Storage changes in vSphere 5.5 announced at VMworld 2013
VMworld2013 is going on in San Francisco this week. The big news is the roll out of network virtualization in NSX and vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) but there were a few tidbits in the storage arena...
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DS3, the BlackPearl and the way forward for … tape
Just got back from an analyst summit with Spectra Logic. They announced a new interface to tape called, Deep Simple Storage Service (DS3) and an appliance that implements this interface named the...
View ArticleGoogle cloud offers SSD storage
Read an article the other day on Google Cloud tests out fast, high I/O SSD drives. I suppose it was only a matter of time before cloud services included SSDs in their I/O mix. Yet, it doesn’t seem to...
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Replacing the Internet?
safe ‘n green by Robert S. Donovan (cc) (from flickr) Was reading an article the other day from TechCrunch that said Servers need to die to save the Internet. This article talked about a startup called...
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Cloud storage growth is hurting NAS & SAN storage vendors
Strange Clouds by michaelroper (cc) (from Flickr) My friend Alex Teu (@alexteu), from Oxygen Cloud wrote a post today about how Cloud Storage is Eating the World Alive. Alex reports that all major NAS...
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EMC acquisitions & other announcements at #EMCSummit last week
EMC’s recently announced the acquisition of Maginetics and Spanning, which are mainly for pushing data protection out to cloud storage and cloud storage data protection. The other major item to come...
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Transporter, a private Dropbox in a tower
Move over Dropbox, Box and all you synch&share wannabees, there’s a new synch and share in town. At SFD7 last month, we were visiting with Connected Data where CEO, Geoff Barrell was telling us all...
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EMCWorld2015 Day 2&3 news
Some additional news from EMCWorld2015 this week: EMC announced directed availability for DSSD, their Rack scale shared Flash storage solution using a PCIe3 (switched) fabric with 36 dual ported, flash...
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Seagate releases 4TB Backup Plus drive with Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage
Seagate today announced the release of a single platter, 4TB Backup Plus drive. The new (20.5mm) thin device offers USB 3.0 and is targeted for PC backup applications. The drive has a MSRP of $239.99...
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When 64 nodes are not enough
Why would VMware with years of ESX development behind them want to develop a whole new virtualization system for Docker and other container frameworks. Especially since they already have a compatible...
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Facebook down to 1.08 PUE and counting for cold storage
Read a recent article in ArsTechnica about Facebook’s cold storage archive and their sustainable data centers (How Facebook puts petabytes of old cat pix on ice in the name of sustainability). In the...
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Mobile devices as a cache for cloud data
Howard Marks (DeepStorage.net) and I were on a GreyBeard’s podcast last month (PB are the new TB) talking with the CTO (Brian Carmody [@initzero]) of hybrid storage vendor, Infinidat, who just...
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AWS vs. Azure security setup for Linux
Strange Clouds by michaelroper (cc) (from Flickr) I have been doing some testing with both Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) these last few weeks and have observed a significant difference in the...
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Platform9, a whole new way to run OpenStack
At TechFieldDay 10 (TFD10), in Austin this past week we had a presentation from Platform9‘s Shirish Raghuram Co-founder and CEO and Bich Le, Co-founder and Chief Architect. Both Shirish and Bich...
View ArticleBetter erasure coding for scale-out & cloud storage
Microsoft Azure uses a different style of erasure coding for their cloud storage than what I have encountered in the past. Their erasure coding technique was documented in a paper presented at USENIX...
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