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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Atlantis USX installation and configuration
Andrea Mauro of vInfrastructure Blog comments: Atlantis USX (Unified Software-defined Storage) is a software-defined storage solution (100% software) that delivers the performance of an all-flash storage array at half the cost of traditional SAN or NAS. First version was announced one year ago (February 2014) and actually there is the version 2.0 (announced on August 2014) with several interesting […]
Keep tabs on the health of your VMware environment with CloudPhysics analytics
Laurent Malhoit writing for Tech Republic comments: CloudPhysics is a Software as a Service (SaaS) analytics tool for VMware environments. Recently the company introduced a new Storage Analytics product to its SaaS application, so I decided to check it out. I now wish I had taken a look at CloudPhysics sooner. Follow these steps to […]
Atlantis Updates ILIO for VMware VSAN
Eric Wright of DiscoPosse writes: The Atlantis ILIO in-memory storage management, with its ability to aggregate disparate storage back-ends, provides a very interesting technical marriage of underlying storage architectures. VSAN already has an enticing VDI use-case, but with the added acceleration promised by the Atlantis ILIO offering, Feature lists like more capacity, accelerated performance, and […]
Taking on your storage situation with CloudPhysics — new Storage Analytics Beta release!
Eric Wright of DiscoPosse comments: What’s one of the most common things we see as virtualization admins is the classic performance issues which lead many to say “It must be a problem with the SAN”. The black-box feel of the storage layer can often be a blame destination when there undetermined performance problems. Great review […]
#VFD3 — Commvault: not only backup solutions
Andrea Mauro of the vInfrastructure Blog comments: During the second day of the third edition of Virtualization Field Day (#VFD3) one of the companies that we (as delegates) met was CommVault, a company in the backup and data protection field and, of course, in the virtualization environment. But it’s quite limiting say that it’s just […]
Use CloudPhysics to Determine How Much SSD Cache to Buy
Eric Shanks of The IT Hollow comments: CloudPhysics continually surprises me with their innovation when providing cards for simulation purposes. I’ve posted a couple of times already about how I really like their AWS pricing calculator (they also have vCHS as well). Having a good idea about how much your existing environment will cost if […]
Pure: All Flash for Everyone
Alastair Cooke of Demitasse writes: Some flash array vendors want to make the fastest flash array they can. Pure’s array isn’t the fastest, that is by design. Pure Storage want to bring the benefits of flash storage by being price competitive with hard disk based arrays. Pure is targeting being a mainstream storage array that […]
Spirent bring testing methodologies and tools in the virtual datacenter
Andrea Mauro from vInfrastructure Blog comments: During the second day of the third edition of Virtualization Field Day (#VFD3) one of the companies that we (as delegates) met was Spirent, that was (at least for me) a new name in the virtualization ecosystem. The company itself is well know in other fields and area, especially […]
CloudPhysics Review
Rick Schlander from VMBulletin comments: This is one company that I’ve been anxious to meet for a while now and I am really glad that I got a chance to at Virtualization Field Day 3. They have a very unique offering to companies in that they provide collective intelligence for IT data sets. First up […]