Violin + X-IO deal, it’s a Win-Win
yesterday I was quite surprised by the press release I received from Violin Systems. But then I got a briefing from them and it's better than it sounds. The operation Violin has acquired some XIO business and assets (all the ISE Arrays business unit in practice),...
DataDrivenTalk – Data Protection and Management on the cloud with Druva
In this episode I'm with Dave Packer (VP of Product and Alliances Marketing at Druva). He updates me on Druva product lineup and we also chat about the approach of his company to cloud data management, including a few hints on future developments regarding the...
Not Your Father’s Commvault
When I got invited to Commvault GO I didn't know what to expect, but my expectations weren’t very high. I was quite sure that I would have found an old, boring, and rigid company struggling to compete with new innovative startups and other very agile players with...
Heading to #CommvaultGO (with a lot of questions). #TFDx
Here we go again. I’m on the road for a two week trip to the US. Commvault GO first, and Tech Field Day later. Single-company events like Commvault GO don't usually excite me much. A 3-day event for a single company can easily become boring in the end. But this might...
Big News in Big Data
This was an interesting week for Big Data. On one side the merger between Cloudera and Hortonworks, on the other Elastic raising another $252M with the IPO! I have to say it comes as no surprise for either of them, but for totally different reasons. Cloudera and...
DataDrivenTalk – Secondary Data and Komprise with Krishna Subramanian
A new Episode of Data Drive Talk is available on Anchor.fm. In this episode I'm with Krishna Subramanian (co-founder and COO of Komprise) and we talk about secondary data and the solution developed by her company. A chat on the challenges faced by organisations of all...
The fascinating world of computational storage
One of the most interesting sessions at Storage Field Day 17 was with NGD systems. I'm a fan of computational storage, and not too long ago I recorded a podcast with Scott Shadley (VP Marketing at NGD stems) where we talk about it. It’s always a pleasure hearing about...
The era of composable storage infrastructures is coming
Last week, at SFD17, I attended a couple of very insightful presentations from Starwind and Intel about NVMe-oF and Intel's SPDK. I think we are on the verge of a major change in the way datacenter storage will be organized, managed and accessed. The SAN, as we know...
Secondary storage is the new primary
Most enterprises are finally realizing that secondary storage is not that secondary after all. We've been talking for years about the exponential growth of unstructured and secondary data, and now that everybody is experiencing it in first person, it looks like many...
