Disclosure Post, Pure Accelerate and SFD9 Edition
Justin discloses the gifts and hospitality provided to him at Pure //Accelerate and Storage Field Day 9. 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
Useful Vendor Swag
Inspired by a question from @jfrappier, here is a bunch of vendor swag I’ve received over the years that has actually proved useful. Hopefully this will help marketing at the various vendors to invest in useful swag and not pointless landfill. The biggest issue with swag is its marginal utility:… Read More
Erasure Coding For Fun and Profit
As part of Data Field Day 1, we spoke to a company called HGST. A team from HGST actually invented the hard drive back in the 1950s, not far from their current office in Silicon Valley. They’ve been bought a sold a few times, most recently to Western Digital, and… Read More
Pure Storage FlashArray//m
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
Tech Companies With An OPiuM Problem, Part 3
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
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
Video from Melbourne VMUG Meeting 14 May 2014
I recorded the presentations at the Melbourne VMUG meeting last week, and have finally uploaded them all to YouTube. You can view the entire playlist here, or watch pieces embedded in the post below. The slides for the talks are available here. Introduction and Update Craig Waters introduced the meeting… Read More
SFD5 Prep Work: SolidFire
I had a lot of trouble figuring out what SolidFire’s architecture looks like conceptually. I had to read a bunch of different whitepapers and ‘reference architecture’ documents on their website that were pretty light on the conceptual detail, but had plenty of configuration file examples and other gritty detail that… Read More