During the last VMworld Europe I had the chance to sit down with Suresh Vasudevan, President and CEO of Nimble Storage, one of the hottest Silicon Valley storage startups, to talk about their product in good detail. Nimble was founded in early 2008 when they started working on their product, in late 2010 (September) they officially launched the CS-Series product line, both founders and the current CEO have a high profile pedigree from NetApp and Datadomain. The widespread availability of flash drives catalyzed their interest in founding a new startup, while everybody else was focused on solving...

Next week (2-3/Nov/2011) I’ll attend SNW Europe (or Powering the cloud as the organizers renamed it), it’s one of the biggest European events focused on data storage, packed with useful sessions and networking opportunities! I have already scheduled many meetings with vendors to hear the latest news but you will also find me at both #storagebeers meetups after 7PM! I have a fond memory of the last SNWE and I have high expectations on the next one, can’t...

Last week, Phil Jaenke and me attended the recording of an Infosmack podcast episode hosted by Nigel Poulton and Rick Vanor: “what makes something enterprise”. Ok, my English wasn’t perfect but I’m sure you’ll enjoy the contents of the show. here the link to download the show, enjoy!...

It’s that time of the year again and I’m getting ready to fly to Copenhagen for three days of virtualization-related madness at VMworld Europe. VMworld Europe is usually regarded as the poor man’s VMworld due to its size (compared to the US event) but it’s still the go-to event in Europe for everything virtual, and this year many high-profile vendors will unveil new products and make announcements. My schedule is already packed, I will split my time between technical sessions and vendor meetings during all my time in Copenhagen, if you want to meet up with me just give me a...

It’s well known that storage accounts for about 50% of your virtual infrastructure costs, so storage is the most important element to look after in a virtualized infrastructure and it’s very important to understand how to manage the TCO growth and what can we do to lower it. You can find the full article here at the Acronis Blog.