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...
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 | 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...
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