by Rob Lyle | 11 Oct 2016 | Cloud, Disaster Recovery, Networking, Security, Storage, Virtualisation
My day-job in Langton Blue is helping clients fix messy, complicated problems in the manner of Winston Wolf – quickly, efficiently, with a minimum of fuss and bother. When attending exhibitions my name badge often reads “Problem Solver” to...
by Rob Lyle | 7 Jan 2016 | Cloud, Disaster Recovery, Security, Virtualisation
Disaster Recovery is in some way on every organisation’s agenda. It is no surprise that Gartner have now produced a magic quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service (https://www.gartner.com/doc/3033519?ref=AnalystProfile&srcId=1-4554397745) What caught my...
by Chris Evans | 23 Oct 2015 | Storage
My latest white paper for Kaminario is now online. You can download it here. This talks about the change in direction of the all-flash industry with a renewed focus on cost as the technology becomes more mainstream. This is a free download with no registration...
by Chris Evans | 27 Aug 2015 | Storage
The speculation has been rife for some time, but finally news has broken that Pure Storage has filed for IPO. The S1 Filing doesn’t tell us any detail about the share volume, funds to be raised or share price (yet), but does shed some light on the way in which...
by Chris Evans | 25 Jun 2015 | Storage
With the rise of flash storage deployments in the data centre, either in all-flash or as part of hybrid arrays, there is continual speculation in the market (and positioning from vendors) that it is only a matter of time before all hard disk media is eliminated from...
by Chris Evans | 9 Jun 2015 | Virtualisation
Back in the 1990’s the battle for hearts and minds in the “platform” (the hardware and operating system used to run your applications) was the processor architecture. Sun had SPARC, IBM had Power (RISC-based) as well as z/Architecture, HP had...
by Chris Evans | 3 Jun 2015 | Storage
Last week Nimble Storage announced their Q1 2016 results. These show continued growth (both in customers and revenue) but also highlighted an equivalent increase in quarter on quarter losses, with break even predicted for 2017, four years after the company floated on...
by Chris Evans | 13 May 2015 | Storage
I my last post I talked about EMC open-sourcing some of their products (in that scenario ViPR) and how that was probably a covert way of gaining access to other platforms they have no support for. This week, Nutanix (a hyper-converged solution provider) announced...
by Chris Evans | 7 May 2015 | Storage
This week at EMC World 2015, EMC announced the intention to open source or offer free downloads for a number of their recent software acquisitions, most notably ScaleIO and ViPR. ScaleIO was acquired in 2013 for around $300 million, ViPR is a mixture of iWave Software...
by Chris Evans | 13 Apr 2015 | Cloud, Storage
Just when you think you have a post ready for publication, a vendor comes out and releases a new product and you’re back to square one with a re-write. This was the case at the end of last week when Amazon Web Services (AWS) released news of their new Elastic...
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