In a previous post, I touched on the need to have APIs for managing storage in cloud environments. In this post, I’ll talk about how the way in which storage is deployed in cloud environments has to change.
For the last 10 years, the advent of Storage Area Networks (SANs) has created a storage-centric view [...]
This morning I signed up and had a play with Microsoft Labs’ social media application, so.cl. This was quietly released over the weekend with little attention as it’s a piece of experiment work rather than a new social media platform. It’s early days to be commenting on whether so.cl will be [...]
It’s been an interesting day of contrasts in the world of storage, one that shows storage is a diverse and wide ranging segment of IT.
The Old
Tape has been part of the discussion on the twitterverse and despite everyone’s best attempts, is not dead yet. Tape and backup may not be seen as cool [...]
Last Friday Eric Savitz over at Forbes reported that Dell may have put in a speculative bid for Fusion-IO (thanks to Don Jennings for spotting the article). The rumoured price was $33 a share, which is approximately a 50% markup on the share price at [...]
One of the worst kept secrets in the storage world is finally out. EMC are acquiring XtremIO for a reported $430 million, as documented in a previous post.
The EMC press release talks about XtremIO as “one of the world’s widely regarded Flash storage architecture pioneers”, yet they have [...]
This week Hitachi launched their entry into the Unified storage array marketplace (press release). Hitachi Unified Storage (or HUS) as it will be known, takes AMS2xxx arrays and BlueArc NAS gateway/heads, combining them together to produce a unified platform. We’ll come back to Hitachi in a later post, but in the meantime, I [...]
If the weekend IT press is to be believed, EMC are on the verge of acquiring solid-state array vendor XtremIO in a deal worth around $450 million. This would be a remarkable outcome for a company that is still technically “in stealth mode” and has no obvious revenue or customers.
Why would EMC [...]
At the end of April I will be attending the first Storage Field Day, part of Stephen Foskett’s Tech Field Day events. It seems a little odd to be having a dedicated storage day, as most or a majority perhaps of the preceding presentations have been storage focused. However there’s been a theme [...]
Today is the official launch of the Raspberry Pi, an ambitious UK project to create low cost computing with the aim of bringing a proper understanding of computing back to education. The device is itself is a fully fledged computer the size of a credit card with external USB and HDMI connectors. What’s remarkable about [...]
This weekend I took the kids to Staples to pick up supplies for the start back to school. Adam (Son #2) was looking for a folder to keep his homework and other assorted books in, when he spotted Filofax folders and decided that would work for him. It took me a while to [...]
