The Eigencast 008: Analysts and Decision Making
Justin talks to Greg Knieriemen from HDS about how analysts shape the market, and how customers make decisions about which product to buy. Read More
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The Eigencast 007: HDS Goes All Flash
Justin talks to Greg Knieriemen from HDS about the new HDS A-series all flash arrays, and the role of analysts in helping customers to make decisions. Read More
SanDisk at SFD5
SanDisk were a thoroughly impressive company during SFD5, and on reflection, a bit of an odd attendee at Tech Field Day. Why? Because TFD tends to be about enterprise technology, while most of SanDisk’s sales have traditionally been in consumer flash devices like USB drives and SD cards. SanDisk’s appearance… Read More
SolidFire
Dave from SolidFire was impressive. He had a quiet confidence that comes from knowing exactly what he’s doing. He knows his own product very well, which he should, but he also knows a lot about competitor products, and the market in generally. He was able to talk about all of… Read More
EMC XtremIO
This is my review of XtremIO based on EMC’s presentation at Storage Field Day 5. Getting a clear picture of what XtremIO was about from EMC’s presentation was a significant challenge. It’s taken me a few re-watches of the video, and triangulation from other sources (including Solidfire’s presentation, ironically) to… Read More
SFD5 Prep Work: Diablo Technologies
Diablo Technologies are a Canadian company who have developed flash that you can access like memory, called MCS: Memory Channel Storage. It’s like the inverse of a ramdisk, for those of us old enough to remember such things: put flash into your server, but access it over the memory channel.… Read More
SFD5 Prep-work: PernixData
PernixData sell storage cache software, essentially. Their Flash Virtualization Platform, or FVP, is a software shim that sits between the Hypervisor (VMware only, according to their datasheet [PDF]) and the SAN (block only, so FC, FCoE or iSCSI attached, no NFS or SMB). It uses server-side flash to hold the… Read More
SFD5 Prep Work: Sandisk
Sandisk are the other public company presenting at Storage Field. Their financial statements tell a very different story from those of EMC that we discussed previously. Check this out: That’s a pretty bumpy ride through the GFC. Here’s what it did for investors, in terms of Return on Equity: Ouch.… Read More
Phage Wars
Phage Wars is an excellent Real Time Strategy Flash game. You pick a type of ‘phage’ (which is technically a kind of virus that infects bacteria), and your aim is to conquor territory (cells). Each cell will then make more of your phage, and you can infect other cells. Bigger… Read More
Native Flash for AMD64! Woo!
Adobe have finally deigned to release a 64bit build of Flash player for Linux. Huzzah! No more stupid mucking about with nspluginwrapper. It’s only alpha, but so far it’s working nicely for me. It’s much more stable than the nspluginwrapped version; so far it hasn’t crashed even once. YouTube and… Read More