The time has come around quickly and yet again I find myself attending another Tech Field Day. However this will only be my third event; it’s also the very first Storage Field Day – an event dedicated to storage companies. Over the course of the two days we will see a range of [...]
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 [...]
One of the attendees at TFD#8 was SolidFire Inc, another startup company focusing on selling entirely solid-state disk arrays. As you’d expect, they have their own niche and part of the market they are targeting with their all-flash drive product. So how do they compare to the competition and what’s their [...]
A clear focus of the recent Tech Field Day #8 event was the use of flash storage (or SSDs) for storage arrays or within hybrid solutions. Pure Storage offers an all flash storage array, which they say can be delivered at the same cost or less than traditional solutions. It’s a [...]
Next week I’m travelling again and will be in the San Francisco area for the week. For Tuesday & Wednesday I’m at the Intel IDF (http://www.intel.com/idf/) and for Thursday & Friday I’ll be attending Tech Field Day #8 (http://techfieldday.com/2011/tfd8/).
I’ve not attended an Intel event before, however I’m interested to see [...]
