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You’re Wrong About Data Protection Policy – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

May 14, 2019 by Rich Stroffolino Leave a Comment

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On this episode, the roundtable discusses data protection policy. The premise is that most organizations are doing this wrong. There’s a fundamental misalignment between what IT thinks it needs to be doing and what the business needs for operations and compliance. They discuss who needs to be taking ownership of these policies, how storage vendors are partially responsible, and how to move forward.

HPE Storage Portfolio Cheat Sheet

January 25, 2019 by Rich Stroffolino

Over the last few years, HPE has built up a very diverse storage portfolio. But it can be a little hard to keep track of everything that’s going on, from the assets they acquired from Nimble Storage, to the latest with 3PAR,StoreOnce, and their increasing partner-based offerings. It’s a lot to keep in mind. Luckily […]

Amazon and Database-as-a-Service

January 11, 2019 by Rich Stroffolino

If databases are set to be the next big land grab for the public cloud, it’s unsurprising to see Amazon positioning themselves to dominate. Look no further than their recently announced MongoDB-compatible database-as-a-service offering Amazon DocumentDB.

NooBaa is acquired by Red Hat

January 4, 2019 by Rich Stroffolino

Red Hat is still in the process of being swallowed up by IBM, which means there was still time for the open source stalwart to make an acquisition of their own. I’ve had some briefings with NooBaa in the past, so I was surprised to see that Red Hat was acquiring the company late last year.

Pure Storage’s NVMe Vision for Storage

September 6, 2018 by Rich Stroffolino

Chris Evans does a great job showing that Pure Storage’s FlashArray//X isn’t important because it’s a bold new product for the company, but rather because it’s the latest step of iteration in a well executed vision.

AIRI: Converging FlashBlade into an AI Reference Architecture

July 12, 2018 by Rich Stroffolino

Pure Storage’s AIRI platform provides a converged infrastructure approach for ML and AI workloads, combining FlashBlade and NVIDIA DGX-1 servers. Chris Evans sees this as a more fundamental achievement, creating reference architectures around specific applications to best take advantage of FlashBlade.

Touching the Void: Cloudian Acquires Infinity Storage

March 29, 2018 by Stephen Foskett

Cloudian recently made an interesting move by scooping up Infinity Storage. This is more than a little curious. The big draw around Infinity Storage is that they provide file storage, whereas Cloudian has made it’s name as an object storage provider. Except that as we’ve covered, Cloudian now offers file services via HyperFile. So… why spend the money on the acquisition?

Where Do SATA SSDs Fit In An NVMe Market?

January 26, 2018 by Rich Stroffolino

Whenever you talk to storage vendors, they’re quick to mention their plans for NVMe. For good reasons, it’s becoming the de facto standard for the highest performing drives. But what about SATA SSDs? Chris Evans breaks down where these still fit in the market.

Of Storage Arrays and Meltdown

January 8, 2018 by Rich Stroffolino

We’ve seen OS and chipmakers respond to the Meltdown and Spectre flaws with patches since the rampant speculation last week. What remains unanswered is how these patches will specifically impact performance on storage arrays and HCI systems. Chris Evans runs down what we do know, and some of the initial company responses.

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You’re Wrong About Data Protection Policy – The On-Premise IT Roundtable

HPE Storage Portfolio Cheat Sheet

Amazon and Database-as-a-Service

NooBaa is acquired by Red Hat

Pure Storage’s NVMe Vision for Storage

AIRI: Converging FlashBlade into an AI Reference Architecture

Touching the Void: Cloudian Acquires Infinity Storage

Where Do SATA SSDs Fit In An NVMe Market?

Of Storage Arrays and Meltdown

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