Yesterday, after the launch of 3PAR StoreServ 7450, David Scott announced a second product: StoreOnce VSA. What is it? StoreOnce is a series of VTLs (virtual tape libraries) with all the features that you can expect from these kind of enterprise products: deduplication, remote replication, scalability and so on. The features that I love the [...]
HP announces a Flashy 3PAR
Today, during the HP Discover event here in Las Vegas, HP announced a new member of the 3PAR family: the StoreServ 7450. As you can imagine, it’s not a completely new product but it is an evolution of the 7400, the biggest difference is that this one is a 100% flash array. Not just flash [...]
Next trip to Silicon Valley in June
Next month, after HP Discover in Las Vegas I will stop once again in Silicon Valley for a full week… this time for the IT Press Tour. The schedule is very tight, some of the companies that I’m going to meet are new to me but others are already well known. In any case, they [...]
Cloud based storage management is cool
Last week I was briefed by NimbleStorage and in April I met Exablox during the Storage Field Day 3 event. Both of them are doing something intriguing with Cloud, Big Data, and the management of their stuff. Cloud for what? They are in the hardware business (the first produces iSCSI based hybrid-storage appliances while the [...]
Ceph is growing like crazy!
A few months ago I met some people from InkTank (a startup founded by most of the people behind Ceph) but I never had time to write my thoughts about it. The good thing with Ceph is that it has been quickly moving from the “science experiment” stage to a more mature form and is [...]
HCP Anywhere, one of those gateways… (2)
In my latest articles I have often mentioned that gateways are the power of object storage. Today HDS has announced a new piece of its object storage platform: a gateway called HCP Anywhere. Enterprise sync&share HCP anywhere is a very simple product that was thought up to solve a big problem: the enterprise dropbox-like service. [...]
Twinstrata, one of those gateways… (1)
I’ve written a lot on object storage lately and some weeks ago I published an article about object storage platforms and gateways. This time I would like to write a few words on one of those gateways. This is one of the many that you can find out there but the interesting thing is that [...]
When flash and cache are synonyms!
Last week I attended Storage Field Day 3, and I met some interesting companies that are looking at Flash to build hybrid solutions. Looks like 100% flash products are still too expensive for the rest of us and hybrid is gaining more and more attention by the end users. The easiest, and probably most efficient, [...]
Object storage is the platform, gateways are the solution
I’ve just finished to read this article from Chris Mellor about object storage and I would like to add my 2 cents to this conversation. A brief market recap If you take a look at Object storage industry today you can easily find three kinds of products: good for high volumes and ISPs: great scalability, [...]
Exablox: simple scale out storage for SMB
The first session of Storage Field Day 3 was with Exablox. Exablox publicly announced its products during the event (ant that’s great, indeed!). The company was born in 2010 and already went through two funding series for a total of M$ 22.5 from various Venture capitalists. Exablox is based in Sunnyvale (CA). The technology behind [...]
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