Red Hat acquires NooBaa, beefing up its Storage portfolio
I recently wrote a report for GigaOm about multi-cloud data storage and data mobility in which I mentioned NooBaa as one of the vendors to watch. And I'm glad to see Red Hat acquiring them, since it looks like NooBaa's technology fits perfectly in the RedHat product...
Disaster Recovery and Cyber Attacks
Usually when we think about disasters we think about natural disasters and IT is not an exception. Floods, earthquakes, storms and other climatic phenomena are on the top of our minds. But this is a misconception, particularly now with vicious cyber-attacks that can...
I’ll be attending Re:invent. Let’s meet up!
It's all set. I'll be landing on Sunday the 25th in Las Vegas and attending Amazon AWS RE:Invent for the first time. The event is massive in size and dispersed in several locations, which is odd and will make things quite complicated, especially if you need to switch...
Two-Tier Data Storage Strategy: A GigaOm Market Landscape Report
My second report for GigaOm is now online. This document paper is available for free to all GigaOm subscribers or purchase as a single report at $299.00. My next report, which focuses on alternatives to Amazon AWS S3, is in the works and will be out soon... Abstract...
Chassis- rack- and datacenter-scale composability
I have been thinking a lot about infrastructure composability since TFD17. I’ve always considered composability mostly as a marketing buzzword to shake up the server market a bit, especially in the blade segment. But, after talking with companies like DriveScale and...
From Storage to Data Virtualization
Do you remember Primary Data? Well, I loved the idea and the team but it didn't go very well for them. It’s likely there are several reasons why it didn’t. In my opinion, it boiled down to the fact that very few people like storage virtualization. In fact, I expressed...
Multi-Cloud Object Storage and Data Mobility: A GigaOm Market Landscape Report
As you may already know, last month I started working with GigaOm. I immediately got down to work on ideas and market trends that are related to what I've been doing in the last 4/5 years around unstructured data and object storage in particular. The first report of...
Oracle Cloud, Better Than You Might Think
Last week I had the opportunity to attend Tech Field Day 17, and one of the most interesting sessions of the week was with Oracle Cloud. I had been briefed about their storage options a few weeks ago and they looked pretty darn good. This time the focus was primarily...
DataDrivenTalk – Cloud File Systems with Jerome McFarland (VP Marketing, Elastifile)
In this episode we talk about cloud file systems, the challenges to build a file service solution for the cloud, most common use cases and Elastifile's product design and implementation. We also talk take this opportunity to talk about a new automated tiering feature...
