What I like most about the FlashArray//m is the combination of very dull things that combine to make this an interesting piece of infrastructure. I tweeted out a cheeky picture of a 6509 with a Pure Storage logo on it, because that’s what the FlashArray//m reminds me of: a modular… Read More
If you haven’t read them already, check out Part 1 and Part 2 in this series. We discussed the rule of thumb for investor returns of 10-20x money raised in the first post in this series. Let’s have a look at some numbers that we actually know to see if… Read More
Satyam Vaghani, CTO at PernixData, spoke at vBeers for Melbourne VMUG o 21 May 2015. Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, you can hear what he said, right here! Enjoy! Read More
Sandisk did a great job with their presentations at Storage Field Day 5 (which is where the SFD5 group photo was taken), so I’m looking forward to seeing what they have to say that relates to data. Sandisk are primarily a flash storage company, and I gave a potted history… Read More
Cloudera is a commercial bundle of Apache Hadoop and a few other related open source projects to create what Cloudera call an Enterprise Data Hub. Hadoop itself is a big collection of technologies that can work together, but in the same way that the Internet is a big collection of… Read More
It has become somewhat of a tradition for me to write a bunch of preparation posts on the company’s I’ll be seeing at each Tech Field Day event. With Data Field Day 1 just around the corner (next week! Ah!) it’s about time I wrote up a little something about… Read More
I’ve had to write this email multiple times now, so, taking my own advice, I’ll write it as a blog and then I can just send the link to people. As can you! Vendors, particularly storage vendors, like to say Quality of Service when they mean priority throttling, and they… Read More
The Melbourne VMUG UserCon 2015 was held last week, and was a great success. The vibe on the day was wonderful, and aside from the usual niggles that always crop up, attendees and sponsors alike told me they enjoyed the day. Numbers were slightly down on last year, but it… Read More
Okay flash storage vendors, enough is enough. Several of you have been trying desperately to convince people that flash is cheap enough to replace spinning disk by measuring it wrong. You keep trying to compare the price of deduped flash with raw spinning disk, and that’s just silly. What Even… Read More
Quite a lot has happened for StorMagic since presenting at Virtualization Field Day 4. They’ve had plenty of good coverage from my fellow VFD4 delegates, and I highly recommend you go and read their perspectives: Jeff Wilson has a conversation with himself about StorMagic. Marco Broeken compares VMware VSAN to… Read More
