Few weeks ago I met Whiptail team. Whiptail produces one of the few “1-Million-IOPS” solid state storage arrays out of there. The meeting went very well with a lot of insights about their architecture, roadmap and their vision on the future of SSD market in general. After the meeting I recorded this short video with [...]
NuoDB is sexy!
The most interesting meeting by far that I attended last week was the one with NuoDB. This Bostonian startup is baking a potentially impressive DB platform aimed to overcome ordinary DB limitations while maintaining traditional ways to access data. The final goal is to obtain, as it’s written underneath their name, “The elastically scalable DB”. [...]
Video: A brief chat with Ziya Aral (DataCore’s Chairman)
Yesterday I was at DataCore HQ (Fort Lauderdale, FL) to meet some members of the management team, one of them is Ziya Aral (Chairman and co-founder). I recorded a short video where he talks about data storage evolution and gives his point of view on what is important when you look at storage. Enjoy the [...]
A bunch of meetings on the east coast
Next week, once again, I’ll be in US for what is set to become another terrific business trip! I can’t conceal my excitement: also because this is the first time that I travel to the east cost. I’m going to meet many companies, and some of them are very interesting startups with innovative ideas, at [...]
Small data, big boxes. Big data, small boxes.
Yesterday I was in a briefing with Kevin Brown (CEO of Coraid) we were talking about the latest news from his company when he said something like this: “in the past people managed small data in big boxes, now they are managing big data in [many] small boxes”. I couldn’t agree more, I dug into [...]
Tech Trailblazers awards: Hurry, hurry!
This is the last call for a competition that has been recently launched for enterprise technology start-ups, offering them the chance to win a share of an estimated prize fund worth more than $1 million. Tech Trailblazers Awards are designed specifically for small businesses and start-ups that are less than five years old and at [...]
Scale’s HC3, Datacenter-in-a-box for the SMB/SME
Scale Computing just announced their new software upgrade to ICOS that brings server virtualization capabilities to their scale out storage. (yes, you read it right, it’ll be available to existing customers too). HC3 is based off Scale Computing‘s ICOS operating environment, the storage part is still built on the HPC-hardened GPFS while the new server [...]
Some thoughts about 1 Million IOPS and pennies for Gigabytes
Last week we attended a briefing with Nimbus Data about their next generation flash storage system. The new array is capable of running at the astonishing speed of 1 Million IOPS. This isn’t the first time that I hear “1 Million IOPS” from a vendor (TMS and Violin have also been publicizing it for a [...]
It’s VMworld time!
Just like every year, August marks the appointment with the most sought-after industry event of the year: VMworld! This will surely be one of the most exciting VMworlds since years, rumors say that there is going to be a huge product announcement, and recent acquisitions such as DynamicOps and (especially) Nicira will give the right [...]
Bye bye Xsigo
Xsigo is one of the first companies with a real solution to network virtualization and Oracle has done an interesting move acquiring them to reinforce its hardware stack and, once again, it’s interesting to see that they are investing in HW despite the weak sales figures… Oracle loving infiniband isn’t news (and I wholeheartedly agree [...]
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