As I was writing in June 2016, going against the grain has its merits and can bring the most unexpected seeds to grow and blossom. Pure Storage had surprised us in May 2016 with their All-Flash Array (AFA) for unstructured storage: the FlashBlade and its purpose-built architecture, especially its unique –
About one year ago, Cisco announced their HyperFlex hyper-converged offering. At that time I did review the solution and provided my mixed comments to that solution. Since one year has passed, what has changed in the hyper-converged space for Cisco, and what about Cisco HyperFlex? 2016: A year of changes for Cisco partnerships
At VMworld Europe 2016 I had the opportunity to stop by Cohesity’s booth where I had a long technical discussion with Joe Putti (Director of Product Management) followed by a demo. I’d like to thank Joe for his time and his patience, as well as Patrick Rogers (Head of Marketing
Most of you who are in the data center business certainly know about HPE and their famous ProLiant server brand. But do you know HPE Cloudline series? Personally I didn’t and honestly passing around a stand showing a 4U device with a stand name in the lines of « Service Providers
I’ve been curious for a long time about Rubrik and what they do in the backup space, however I really never had a chance to look at Rubrik closer until recently. I had the opportunity to steal some time from Rubrik and get a deep-dive session at VMworld 2016 with Chris
Yesterday my friend Enrico Signoretti shared an article about Microsoft open sourcing their next-gen cloud hardware design. This and another post from my friend Tom Hollingsworth on the Facebook Wedge 100 TOR switch and finally some mixed thoughts about a specific company presenting at Storage Field Day 11 had me pondering about
I recently had the immense (and undue) honour to discuss as one of the panelists at the Intel Storage Builders event in Barcelona on the theme of “Evolving Storage Platforms Transforming the Cloud and Enterprise”. The discussion was moderated by Tech Field Day organiser and self-proclaimed storage nerd Stephen Foskett.
This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 11. Find out the entire SFD11 content, presentations, articles, presenting companies and delegates here. M&E – a specific use case? Last week I was in the Silicon Valley to attend Storage Field Day 11 as a delegate. One
If you recall, I had attended Storage Field Day 10 where we had a fantastic presentation about Pure Storage’s Flashblade. I had subsequently written a comprehensive post to present the Flashblade system and its architecture. Now, we were just informed – through Stephen Foskett and Pure Storage – that Flashblade is
This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 10. Find out the entire SFD10 content, presentations, articles, presenting companies and delegates here. In an age where the major storage pundits and influencers claim that « The Storage Industry is Doomed », where software-defined is the new cloud-like
I thought a few months ago that it would be worth having a closer look at what Hedvig is doing in the storage space. My upcoming Storage Field Day 10 participation (where Hedvig will present their solution) gives me the opportunity to finally dig down further. This post is part
Yesterday Cisco announced with much fanfare their entrance into the select club of hyper-convergence purveyors. In a market dominated by Nutanix and SimpliVity, with VMware VSAN and now also VCE VxRail every serious data center contender wants to have their place under the sun. What is Cisco HyperFlex and
During Tech Field Day Extra in Berlin last week (at Cisco Live Europe) we had a fantastic and unique opportunity to meet with delegates who are working in various fields. We all know of some general concepts but well, we’re all so much into our specialization area that we do
We woke up very early today to attend a packed morning full of networking bonanza, especially Wi-Fi. Since this is not much my activity field, I will have only short entries for these sessions. However, I went around the exhibitor booths to visit SimpliVity, SolidFire, EMC and finally my good
Here are my notes as I did some background research on StorMagic and their SvSAN solution to prepare for the sessions at Tech Field Day Extra / Cisco Live Europe 2016. Company The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Bristol, UK. Intel from the experts at El Reg also