What a difference 18 months makes. I last reviewed Commvault for Tech Field Day 9 in June 2013 in a series of posts. My post-TFD9 review focused on their new-at-the-time Sympana 10 release, but prior to the event, I did some old-fashioned financial analysis, since they’re a public company and… Read More
Platform9 bill themselves as “the simplest way for Enterprises to implement an OpenStack based, agile, self-service Private Cloud.” Ok. They’re offering a Software-as-a-Service OpenStack Controller. It looks like they have some fancy software that lives somewhere out there on the Internet, and talks to your infrastructure over HTTPS. You sign… Read More
VMTurbo appear to make a piece of fancy monitoring software that uses “free-market principles” to make optimisation decisions. All the resources in your data centre are modelled as sources of supply and are demanded by other parts of the data centre. CPUs are basically raw ‘compute’ commodity, as is storage.… Read More
I get to go to another Tech Field Day event! Yay! <glee mode> Stephen, Tom, Claire and the crew have kindly invited me to attend Virtualization Field Day 4 in Austin, TX in January 2015. The invitations only just went out, so the details are still coming through about who… Read More
Diablo Technologies are the second half of the SanDisk ULLtraDIMM partnership. They came up with the technologies for what they call Memory Channel Storage: using the memory interface from the CPU to talk to persistent storage more-or-less directly, instead of going over a storage subsystem. We covered the reasons for… Read More
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
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
To continue my tradition of attempting full disclosure of all the things that may influence my writing, here is a list of all the gifts, hospitality, and other things of value I received as a delegate at Storage Field Day 5. I encourage you to determine how (not if, how)… Read More
Scale Computing know exactly what they’re doing, and they’re doing it well. The founders have built a system that is just what they wanted when they worked for mid-sized firms in the middle of America. I had a couple of informal conversations about Scale with Silicon Valley types over the… Read More
PernixData FVP, in its upcoming version (currently in private beta) has some intriguing possibilities as part of an ecosystem of products, and it adds one of the big features I asked for in my prep post. What I like most about FVP is its non-disruptive nature. Subject to a few… Read More
