Last week I was in a chat with an HP representative about cloud and openstack when he said “OpenStack is like linux”. You know, I’m not very fond of Openstack but I couldn’t agree more! The discussion went on about why OpenStack is like linux and here you are some thoughts: It’s growing like linux [...]
Dell Storage Forum in Boston next week
It’s that time of the year again, the storage part of the Dell family will happily gather to Boston for Dell Storage Forum where everybody is expecting new announcements and integration plans, especially now that the storage acquisition landscape seems to be quieter (at least for Dell’s standards ). It also looks like I’ll have [...]
Next stop: HP Discover
HP has once again invited me to attend HP Discover in Las Vegas: their yearly corporate event where you find and talk about everything concerning HP world. It’s really a great opportunity to meet people and to talk to technical experts. Last year it was very good, I met a lot of of interesting people [...]
HP (cloud): You can do better!
Last week, I spent some time on HP cloud and the only thing I can think of is: “HP, you can do better! (much better)” The first tour left me with a bitter taste in mouth: if this is intended as an AWS competitor let me say that the Amazon guys can sleep easy! I [...]
OpenStorage Summit EMEA 2012, I’ll be there.
Next week I’ll be at OpenStorage Summit EMEA 2012. Really, I can’t wait. First because I’m seeing that end users are asking for cheaper storage like crazy and then because I’m very curious to know the latest updates on Illumos and ZFS. (do I need to repeat that I’m very fond of Solaris?) I’ve already [...]
three thoughts on EMC and XtremeIO
Last week, EMC bought XtremeIO (an israeli Startup developing a 100% scale-out SSD storage, here a link to their website) for 420M$. This acquisition, less important than many others in EMC history (at least in terms of dollars), gave me the spin to write this post. SSD arrays are getting traction Well, this acquisition gives [...]
Drobo, the other SAN.
During the last Storage Field Day we met an interesting SOHO/ROBO-focused storage company called Drobo. Drobo was the talk of the town a few years ago when their first 4-bay RAID array stunned the home storage enthusiasts with their BeyondRAID technology, that enabled a very smart use of those drives laying around the house giving [...]
Video: John Spiers introduces NexGen Storage
John Spiers, CEO and co-founder of NexGen Storage (and former cofounder of Lefthand Networks), talks about NeXGen Storage and the strategy of the company. Enjoy the video! Disclaimer: I was invited at this meeting by Condor Consulting Group and they paid for travel and accommodation, I have not been compensated for my time and am [...]
Kaminario, scale out on flash!
After having digested all the awesome things that I gathered during the last Storage Field Day I’m ready to start talking about some of the interesting things we saw last week in beautiful north California. Kaminario was our first host, Kaminario is a relatively new play in the flash array market, being founded in 2008, [...]
PureStorage: SSD storage with feet on the ground
If there is a company that I seriously liked from my last trip to the US it is Purestorage. I always try to be impartial in my writings but sometimes style counts and the guys from Purestorage were smart and disclosed what they are doing very well. The company Pure isn’t new to me. I [...]
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