I recently was invited to Cloud Field Day in the Bay area. While in attendance the group heard from many different companies. One of them was HPE Nimble Storage. I really didn’t know what to expect for this presentation, but as the discussion took form the strategy being used was quite interesting. Imagine this In […]
NetApp at Cloud Field Day
I recently attended Cloud Field Day in the Bay area and one of the companies I had the privilege of meeting with for a product strategy review was NetApp. If you are familiar with NetApp they are traditionally a storage provider, but they are moving forward with a new visionary shift that will change them […]
Tintri Chatops is Reinventing the How-To-Do of Server Virtualization
Recently Tintri announced two new ways that we can change the How-to-Do of Server Virtualization; Tintri Chatops and Alexa. So, what does this all mean you ask? It means that the traditional ways that we deploy our virtual server workloads of today have the potential to eventually become the “stone and tablet” methods of the […]
The Evolution of Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, and Storage
The last two decades have seen major innovations in the storage space. Theresa Miller looks at the evolution of storage and the impact the changes have had on business over the past 20 years in this executive summary. Read for more insight on the following key takeaways: Storage options have become longer-lasting with faster performance […]
Use Any Storage with Docker Containers for your Enterprise
As enterprises continue to become interested in Docker; the types of features we have access to and the available third party integrations become more and more important. You may have previously seen this topic covered on 24×7 IT Connection by Melissa Palmer. In this post she explains what Docker is and why we care. More […]
What’s New with Tintri…
It’s no secret I am a big fan of Tintri storage, based from my previous blog postings on exchangegoddess.com. So to hear about some their news announcements today is pretty exciting. Today on May 17, 2016 Tintri announced several new products that enables enterprises to Scale Out and build their own cloud platform using the […]
The View of EMC World 2016 from the Show Floor
I attended EMCWorld this year to work in the EMC Core Technology Booth. Spanning Backup for Office 365 launched support for OneDrive for Business at the show. It’s been a lot of work to get it launched, so it was great to finally talk about it with customers, partners, and EMC sales folks about it. […]
Flash Storage for your Remote Office?
The storage industry is constantly evolving and organizations have many options to choose from varying from traditional spinning disk, solid state storage, flash and more. What each organization chooses to do in his space can vary, and often involves some form of a combination of disk types. In the recent past flash storage is getting […]
Hmm, Enterprise Grade Cloud-based Storage?
Last week I attended Tech Field Day at VMWorld 2015, and had the opportunity to attend a session where I learned about a company called ClearSky Data. They offer enterprise level storage with enterprise SLA’s in the cloud with a goal to offer this service globally. When we consider the high levels of overhead that it […]
Understanding the Mysteries of Solid State Storage Options
As a Systems Engineer designing and architecture application systems, do I need to be concerned about what it means to use Solid State Drives (SSDs) for the storage backend supporting my application? Should the average consumer be concerned if they have SSDs or not in their computers? What about Enterprise desktops? Should they all have […]