Dave Henry of GeekFluent comments: Today Cisco announced their entry in the Hyperconverged Infrastructure marketplace, a solution called HyperFlex. Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) can be thought of as “Virutalization in a Box”. An HCI solution is one that offers everything needed for server virtualization: compute, memory, network, storage, hypervisor, and management/orchestration for all of these. Cisco is […]
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Catalogic 6 months later
Arjan Timmerman of VDICloud writes: Almost half a year ago I was at Storage Field Day 7 in San Jose (CA) where we had a couple of awesome presentations by multiple companies. One of these companies was Catalogic who presented on their ECX copy datamanagement platform. A couple of my fellow delegates have written some great content […]
SDS from Springpath – hyper-convergence with greater flexibility
Vipin V.K. writes on his blog: The technical discussion was lead by Mallik Mahalingam and Krishna Yadappanavar the founders of the company. As they know their product very much, they were able to get into detail about all the features, architecture and implementation. In this post here, let us discuss about the features of SDS from Springpath. Vipin has a […]
The potential of microservices within the data center
Keith Townsend of Virtualized Geek writes: The abstraction means that a cluster can consist of virtually any combination of storage from bare metal servers running Docker or Hypervisor hosted VSAs. Technically a high-end storage array that has a built-in hypervisor would have the ability to support this container model. While I can’t think of a […]
Rumors, strategies and facts about Hyper-converged
Enrico Signoretti of Juku writes: A few weeks ago I attended SFD7. Most of the conversations we had during the event where about hyper-converge. And we had at least three meetings where hyper-convergence was at the center of the stage: Maxta, Springpath and VMware. The market is very active, to say the least, and still in a very effervescently expanding […]
Transporter, a private Dropbox in a tower
Ray Lucchesi of RayOnStorage Blog comments: Move over Dropbox, Box and all you synch&share wannabees, there’s a new synch and share in town. At SFD7 last month, we were visiting with Connected Data where CEO, Geoff Barrell was telling us all about what was wrong with today’s cloud storage solutions. In front of all the participants was this strange, blue glowing device. As […]
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 […]
Storage Field Day 7 – Day 1 – Catalogic Software
Dan Frith of PenguinPunk.net writes: According to their website, “ECX is an intelligent copy data management [IDM] platform that allows you to manage, orchestrate and analyze your copy data lifecycle across your enterprise and cloud”. If you’ve ever delivered storage in an enterprise environment before, you’ll understand that copy data management (CDM) is something that […]
CopyData yeah… Long live Data Virtualization
Keith Townsend 0f Virtualized Geek comments: I got into interesting sets of exchanges over CopyData with the fine folks of Actifio and Catalogic Software. In general, I’m a fan of the concept of CopyData software. Both solutions reduce the amount of production data on storage (which is up to 60% of all enterprise data) using technics such as […]
What else has Kaminario got under its kimono?
Enrico Signoretti comments on The Register: Last week I attended Storage Field Day 7. One of the companies I met at the event was Kaminario, producer of an all-flash array (AFA). This start-up has a potentially good product, with its own pros and cons, but the question here is: Is “good” still enough to have a […]