It’s not a long time since I was in the US for a conference, and soon I’ll have the opportunity to meet many companies down in the Silicon Valley once again. Some of them are already well known on this blog, others are newcomers, but the great news is that I will collect a lot of useful informations during every meeting and will share them on the blog. The list is longer than usual and all the companies mentioned are developing solutions focused on the hottest topics of the industry: SSD storage, Big Data and Cloud! Avere Systems: NAS optimization. Cloudera: A well known hadoop...

Last week I met Ed Saipatech and Bryan Cantrill at Joyent’s new HQ in San Francisco. It was an opportunity to get an update on their strategy, especially after some tweets and half words I intercepted on Internet about the development of their platform. Moreover, I was very curious about their future proposition in the object storage space. (Cloud) object storage is increasing its importance every day. For example, if you look at Amazon, the public cloud market leader, S3 is the most successful service of their entire product lineup. I’ve already written about Joyent in the past. It...

It has been a pleasure meeting Sam Curry (RSA’s CTO) here at RSA Conference. This video interview is a little bit long (18′) but, trust me, it worths a watch! Enjoy it

Disclaimer: My company was a Sun Microsystems partner (that later became part of Oracle) but now I no longer have a business relationships with this company anymore. Before the end of the year I had a lunch with a couple of friends: one Oracle’s employee and one partner of the same company. We weren’t there to talk about the most hated software company (and perhaps the wealthiest one) of the market but, eventually we opened up and shared each other some anecdotes. All the IT vendors have their fanboys and detractors, but I think that Oracle (not its products) is the one that could hold the...

Some days ago Isilon (now an EMC company) announced a new feature, in addition to existing options, for their storage solutions: HDFS support. This is a great move that I like very much but with a little reservation. Storage vendors are working hard to take a step forward by bringing data closer to the computational power. In this moment EMC is leading the pack (the other announcement they made last week is project lightning: a flash cache on servers tightly integrated with their storage), but it’s clear that it is only a matter of time: I’m sure that other primary vendors will release...