January is the month of predictions in IT. While I do not have a crystal ball, I will not claim that 2019 will be the year of VDI or the year of Linux on desktops. Instead, I would rather like to focus on the Solid-State Memory industry. QLC 3D NAND
Should Cisco reinvent itself? Thoughts ahead of Cisco Live Europe 2019
2019 will mark my fourth Cisco Live Europe attendance in a row. A feat for a person like me who’s much estranged to the networking world. As strange as it may seem, Cisco Live Europe seems to one of the rare predictable events at this time of the year besides
Live at VMworld Europe 2018: An Update on VMware Strategy and Vision, or VMware is Cool Again
VMware has stuck around long enough to move from being an underdog into a major established player in the data center world. When companies grow, the added complexity can lead to a form of “corporate sclerosis”, where agility and the ability to always remain on the competitive edge start to
What future for Intel Optane?
I was privileged to attend a morning of presentations from the Intel Optane team last month (September 2018), straight at Intel headquarters while in the Silicon Valley. Here are my thoughts on Intel Optane, its future, and which use cases are relevant to this storage class. A difficult birth Intel
NetApp MAX Data: The Persistence of Memory, Revisited
If Salvador Dali was at our NetApp MAX Data Tech Field Day presentation, I’m sure he’d start painting melting NVDIMM modules or melting Optane modules. Excuse my nerdiness, though: have you ever heard of NetApp MAX Data? And what if I said Plexistor? Perhaps it will ring a bell to
NetApp Data Fabric: putting in practice the “Theory of Everything” for Data and Storage
I was at NetApp Insight 2018 in Las Vegas and had the opportunity to hear not only the general messaging during keynotes, but also get deep-dive on certain of the hot topics at NetApp. One of these was the NetApp Data Fabric, also known as NetApp Cloud Services. Some of
NetApp Insight 2018 – Hello Stranger, We Meet Again
If I had to name one major storage company that I have seldom written about, it has to be NetApp. Not that their solutions wouldn’t be appealing, but we’ve just been estranged work-wise. Rather, it’s been like these kind of platonic relationships where you never meet at the right moment
Komprise: Data Management Made Easy
Data management and secondary storage are all the rage these days. They have both been covered long & large by the most prominent industry analysts & research organizations. There are a growing number of solutions in this market which sometimes overlap. Both are still a widely debated topic in the
Computational Storage – TECHunplugged Industry Insights market research is now available!
The last couple weeks have been hectic: the summer season is well over, the school year start is at full speed and it’s also the return of conferencing season! If you’re a blog regular, you may have seen my post during the weekend about The Rise of Computational Storage. At
The Rise of Computational Storage
Last week I was in the Silicon Valley to attend Storage Field Day 17. If you don’t know what Storage Field Day is about, I encourage you to check out this recent post of mine. Nevertheless the goal of this article is to cover computational storage – but to cover
I will be at Storage Field Day 17! Wait, what is a “Storage Field Day”?
Once again I am humbled and happy to be invited by the GestaltIT crew to join them at Storage Field Day 17, this time from 19-Sep to 21-Sep and in the Silicon Valley. More info on the event: www.techfieldday.com/sfd17. Storage Field What? This acclaimed event series is well known by
Firefox on MacOS: insane battery drain, subpar performance and endless frustration
This content is 7 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.I recently installed (approx. a month ago) Firefox version 60 (now updated to 61) on MacOS in the hope of further strengthening my « Gexit » (Google Exit). Google is a company I do not trust anymore,
Opinion – Online Privacy: You’re In Control
This content is 7 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Not a week passes without hearing in the news of a major data breach, a social media service into yet another mess-up, or a major vendor purchasing a popular service. What’s the usual outcome? Outcries
Thoughts on the Rise of Equihash-capable ASICs and 51% Attacks against Equihash Blockchains
This content is 8 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.These have been two interesting weeks for individuals with a vested interest in equihash-based cryptocurrencies (Zcash, ZenCash, Bitcoin Gold and a few others). While my focus these days is solely on ZenCash (and by extension
Druva acquires CloudRanger, expands backup capabilities to AWS
This content is 8 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.I had a short call yesterday with my friend W. Curtis Preston, a Tech Field Day alumn turned Chief Technical Architect at Druva, to get an update about their latest whereabouts. It turns out that
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