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
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
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
PowerMax – Dell EMC returns to Tier-0 land with a Next-Gen, ML-enabled storage platform
This content is 9 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.This week, Dell EMC have announced the availability of their latest and most powerful storage array to date, the PowerMax. The announcement took place at Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas, where I was present
Cisco HyperFlex 3.0 – A mature hyper-converged solution ready for next-gen workloads
This content is 12 months old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Today we were briefed at Cisco Live Europe 2018 in Barcelona about the latest improvements done on the Cisco HyperFlex platform. My readers may know that I have covered HyperFlex first in 2016, then in
Dell EMC VMAX All-Flash: A proven solution for mission-critical systems
This content is 1 year old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.When determining storage capacity, performance and availability requirements for their mission-critical systems, most if not all organisations try to solve the equation, once presented with alternatives, by looking primarily at pricing and attempting to juice
E8 Storage: The Mercedes-Maybach 6 of NVMe Flash Arrays
This content is 1 year old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.When it comes to design, making things elaborate and complicated is not necessarily the best way to go. Keeping things simple while focusing on delivering outcomes that match the customer expectations (if not exceeding them)
InfiniBox: solving the enterprise storage cost vs performance equation?
This content is 1 year old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 14. Find out the entire SFD14 content, presentations, articles, presenting companies and delegates here. As I wrote in my announcement of joining Storage
Open Convergence: the next evolution of HCI?
This content is 1 year old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.Recently we’ve seen data center vendors advocate for a new breed of on-premises infrastructures branded as open convergence. Datrium is one of these, and if they are not the herald bearing high the flag of
X-IO Axellio and Edge Computing: an NVMe-enabled emerging architecture model?
This content is 1 year old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.This post is part of the blog series related to Storage Field Day 13 and the Pure Storage Accelerate conferences. Find out the entire SFD13 content, presentations, articles, presenting companies and delegates here. Redefining X-IO
Cohesity FlashProtect – a look into Pure Storage and Cohesity Integration
This content is 2 years old. Please, read this page keeping its age in your mind.My readers know that I have a weak spot for Pure Storage as well as Cohesity, as I believe both companies are innovators and disruptors of their own markets. I had the occasion to be