by Rob Lyle | 24 Mar 2015 | Security
It did, once, with the transportation of the 3,106 carat Cullinan Diamond, the world’s largest uncut diamond from South Africa to Edward VII in England. This is one of Bruce Schneier’s favourite examples in his book Beyond Fear, however the general consensus is that...
by Chris Evans | 23 Mar 2015 | Virtualisation
This month, SimpliVity Corporation (www.simplivity.com) announced a Series D round of financing, raising an additional $175m for a total valuation of $1bn. To date, the company has raised $276 million in four rounds (press release). The money is to be used to fund...
by Rob Lyle | 18 Mar 2015 | Security
One of the most difficult problems in securing any business that depends on information technology is working out what “secure enough” looks like. Every stakeholder will have a different view, and offer a different opinion on the ideal outcome. These opinions come...
by Chris Evans | 4 Mar 2015 | Storage
In a classic move worthy of The Innovator’s Dilemma, a number of recent announcements by flash and HDD vendors have continued a trend that could have the incumbent shared storage array vendors worried. In December 2014, HGST, a subsidiary of drive manufacturer...
by Chris Evans | 25 Feb 2015 | Storage
At the beginning of the year I wrote a post over at the Architecting IT Blog talking about what we can expect for storage in 2015. This coming year I believe we need to see more on the management of data and less of a focus on storage hardware per-se. To a certain...
by Chris Evans | 16 Feb 2015 | Storage
Chris Mellor recently posted an interesting review of NetApp’s financial position, following on from the release of their latest financial figures for the period 3Q/2014. The comments posted to the article show a pretty polarised view; 50% of the commenters...
by Chris Evans | 11 Feb 2015 | Cloud, Virtualisation
According to Adrian Cockcroft, ex Cloud Architect at Netflix and now with Battery Ventures, 2014 could spell the end of enterprise computing as we know it. According to the misquoted Mark Twain – “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated”...
by Chris Evans | 9 Feb 2015 | Storage
It seems that some of the big 6 vendors are in disagreement as to whether there is a real “all-flash” segment of the storage market, or whether all-flash is simply an extension of primary storage, as detailed in this article from Chris Mellor on The...
by Chris Evans | 16 Jan 2015 | Virtualisation
There’s been a bit of conversation recently on the intention of EMC to put drivers for their ScaleIO platform into the VMware ESXi hypervisor kernel. The discussion was triggered by an article published in LeMagIT on 25 November 2014 by Christophe Bardy and...
by Chris Evans | 8 Jan 2015 | Storage
Sometimes it’s hard to believe that there’s anything more to achieve in data storage. Surely things are pretty much complete; we have the ability to store vast quantities of data reliably and each year the per unit cost of storage continues to decline. So as 2015...
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