Yesterday’s post generated a few comments that focused on the cost and ease of use of the Chromebook. Now it’s time to put a data management spin onto it.
Today we keep our primary data either directly on our PC/laptop or on a file server. File server can mean many [...]
Continue Reading This Post →I’ve just been watching a discussion on the Google Chromebook on BBC Breakfast. Surprisingly the presenters had some half decent questions to ask Rory Cellan-Jones as he showed them the latest attempt by Google to grab a further hold on the [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Here’s another video from HP Discover 2011 last week. In this one I talk to Kate Davis about the P4800. I’ve been pretty much all in on commodity storage hardware these days and the P4800 is another example of this. You’ll see in the video that the two blades run [...]
Continue Reading This Post →During last week’s HP Discover 2011 event, Nigel Poulton (@nigelpoulton) raised a very interesting point regarding the way VMware potentially intend to control the storage space through VMFS and the apparent contradiction in terms of also pushing off tasks to the storage array through VAAI. [...]
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Yesterday HDS announced (via this press release) their entry into the converged infrastructure market. The solution offerings go under the name Hitachi Unified Computing Platform and comprise reference architectures and orchestration software to bring the whole thing together. While I think it is a good thing that HDS are starting [...]
Continue Reading This Post →In a slightly distracted post, I talk with Thomas Jones, Devang Panchigar, Nigel Poulton and Lee Johns, Director of Converged Storage at HP about the new Converged Storage Strategy and Store 360, the framework bringing all of the recent storage acquisitions to the same platform.
The podcast was recorded in “I Love Burgers” in the [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Day 4 of any conference is pretty much one of reflection and consolidation; 4 days of early starts and late nights (especially when tied with serious jet lag) start to take their toll. However all the hard work is worth it when you have one of those “light bulb” moments and the signs of a [...]
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