In just under a week, I will be attending the NetApp Insight 2014 conference, in sunny Las Vegas, NV. I’m once again travelling as a freelance journalist, for iTNews. This marks the second conference in under a month, and my fourth trip to the US this year. I’m really racking… Read More
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
Getting a clear picture of what XtremeIO was about from EMC’s presentation was a significant challenge. It’s taken me a few rewatches of the video, and triangulation from other sources (including Solidfire’s presentation, ironically) to figure out how it works. XtremeIO ‘X-bricks’ are dual-active controllers connected to 25 eMLC flash… Read More
Veeam have a long history of presenting at various Field Days, as you can see here. I wrote about them for Tech Field Day 9, in a prep post here, and in a review here. Going on past performances, we can expect that Veeam will be presenting some sort of… Read More
Scale sell a converged platform: compute and storage in pizza boxes that glom together to make a cluster of 3 to 8 nodes, like Voltron. It’s based on KVM, with proprietary bits added into the mix. Scale make a big deal about “no licensing” or, as they call it, a… Read More
Here are some tips for implementing thin-provisioning with NetApp controllers in a way that is operationally manageable. This isn’t the only way, I’ve just found it to work well a couple of years after you’ve turned it on, unlike some other methods that work well at first, and then explode… Read More
This is part of a series on the SNIA Blogfest 2010. NetApp were the fourth, and final, vendor of the day. We were met by John Martin, Principal Technologist, and a young guy from NetApp’s PR firm who was presumably there just to observe. We gathered around a conference table,… Read More
I won’t be the least surprised to see that headline sometime in the next couple of years. Let’s take a look at recent trends in tech to see why: VMware Prior to VMware, no one knew what a hypervisor was outside of banking folk who deal with IBM AS/400 and… Read More
Another TwitPiss erupted this week between the usual suspects. Over this. I don’t care about the topic of debate, really, since I’ve never personally used MetroCluster. I have used NetApp SnapMirror, sync and async, EMC BCVs, SRDF, EVAs and their data replication. And a bunch of other solutions to the… Read More
I recently wrote a short article for a client on NetApp snapshots. It was for some internal marketing, to help application developers understand the technology a little better, so they could design their applications to take advantage of some of the features. It reminded me that snapshots, that most basic… Read More
