This week I managed to fit in two podcasts. First was episode 5 of Speaking in Tech with Greg Knieriemen and co. Second was the first of a new series of podcasts from Violin Memory, which I recorded while in California for Tech Field Day. You can find both podcasts from the links below. Enjoy!
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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 [...]
I recently wrote an article for TechTarget that looked at the implementations of data de-duplication in primary storage arrays. One of the things that stood out for me was the lack of de-duplication support in traditional (and some might say legacy) storage arrays.
The cynical amongst us would say that the big 5 storage vendors [...]
Yesterday EMC finally revealed the details on their not-so-secret Lightning and Thunder flash projects. Fortunately this launch event didn’t include cramming small people into minis or firing Chad Sakac out of a cannon, but was more focused on the market and products EMC are bringing to it. There was also a large amount of Twitter [...]
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 [...]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last two years, you can’t have failed to notice that solid state storage is here and is here in a big way. Two weeks ago at TFD#8, we had presentations from two all-flash array startups, Pure Storage and SolidFire. I’ll have more specifics on [...]
