Pure Storage has grown from a scrappy upstart to an established player in enterprise storage, and Gestalt IT and Tech Field Day were there the whole time. From their first Field Day appearance in 2011 to today’s Tech Talks and Exclusive Field Day events, we have grown together over 10 years.
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The reverse wars – DAS vs NAS vs SAN
Chin-Fah Heoh of Storage Gaga writes: In the beginning (starting in the early to mid-90s), SAN (Storage Area Network) was the dominant architecture. DAS (Direct Attached Storage) was on the wane as the channel-like throughput of Fibre Channel protocol coupled by the million-device addressing of FC obliterated parallel SCSI, which was only able to handle 16 devices […]
Hyper-convergence, divergence and micro-convergence
Enrico Signoretti of Juku writes: Data grows (steadily… and exponentially) and nothing gets thrown away. Since data adds up, the concept of the “data lake” has taken shape. Even systems created for big data are starting to sense this problem and system architects are beginning to think differently about storage. I’m going to take Hadoop […]
Sorry Nimble Storage – I Don’t Believe You!
Nigel Poulton of Technical Deep Dive comments: Anyway, as part of the presentation, Rod Bagg (VP of Customer Support) made the claim that ~60% of Nimble storage arrays get upgraded during business prime time hours. Seriously! During the middle of the business day! And Rod clarified that these are production systems, not just test systems […]
MASSive, Impressive, Agile, TEGILE
Chin-Fah Heoh of Storage Gaga comments: In a world of utterly confusing messaging about Flash Storage, I was eager to find out what makes Tegile tick at the Storage Field Day session. Yes, I loved Tegile and the campus visit was very nice. I was also very impressed that they have more than 700 customers and over […]
Will All New Storage Arrays be Hybrid?
Eric Shanks of IT Hollow comments: Consider what would happen if you could see analytics about your workloads to see cache hit ratios. This is something that several vendors can show now including Coho and Cloud Physics. You can now decide to buy more flash based off of how much a workload will benefit from […]
Nexenta — Back in da house…
Nigel Poulton comments on his blog: So aaaages ago I downloaded and played with the community edition of NexentaStor — one of the real early software defined storage (SDS) technologies. And I remember being pretty excited…. I mean, at the time, SDS was still in its primordial state, and here was a free-to-download working product! […]
Coho Data, one year later
Enrico Signoretti of Juku writes: Last year, I met Coho Data for the first time (it was during SFD4), and I wrote an enthusiastic article about them. Too enthusiastic maybe, but I really liked their vision and I overlooked the immaturity of a product that was still on a pre-release stage at that time. This […]
Storage Field Day — I’ll be at SFD6
Dan Frith of penguinpunk.net comments: If you haven’t heard of the very excellent Tech Field Day, head on over and check it out. They do all kinds of Field Days, including one for storage. Number 6 is happening in less than 2 weeks and, yes, I’ll be there this time. Wheee! Look, you can see […]