In this iteration of Gestalt Server News:
– Caching vs Tiering? The On-Premise IT Roundtable wants to clear up the confusion!
– StorMagic’s SvSAN for the edge
– and weird DNA storage
Plus Preston de Guise begs the question: what constitutes a successful backup?
World of StorageCraft- Company Acquires Exablox
In a move that could shake up the backup market down the road, StorageCraft announced the acquisition of the storage appliance company Exablox. Exablox is no stranger to Gestalt IT or Tech Field Day, and has been around for more than a little while. The combination of the two could make a compelling combined solution. The companies aren’t exactly strangers, they’ve had an OEM agreement in place since last October.
Storage Field Day 7 – Initial Thoughts
Chris Evans of Architecting IT writes: Storage Field Day 7 (11-13 March 2015) proved to be yet another impressive and thought provoking event, with lots of new ideas demonstrating that the storage industry is one of the most innovative and competitive sections of the technology landscape. Over the next few weeks, I’ll deep dive into some […]
Object storage bods Exablox: RAID is dead, baby. RAID is dead
Chris Mellor of The Register comments: Object storage supplier Exablox has provided a file interface to its OneBlox object store, which is basically a Drobo-style BYOD store – Bring Your Own Disks. El Storage asked Sean Derrington, senior director of products at Exablox, some questions about the company. Some of the answers have been edited […]
Object-defined storage (it’s not about object storage)
Enrico Signoretti ofJuku comments: I’m here, sitting at the airport while waiting for my return flight from SNWEurope/Powering The Cloud, thinking about the briefings I had in the last two days. I met many different companies and I also spent some time visiting the booths in the expo area. The show was good as always […]
#SFD3: Exablox launch
Luca Dell’Oca from Virtual to the Core writes: After two years of development before launch, Exablox guys presented their object storage solution, designed from the groud-up to be scalable, reliable, with enterprise level features, but also easy to use and cheap. The solution has two building blocks, the Storage Appliance (OneBlox) and the management system […]