On June 1st Pure Storage is announcing the next ‘BIG THING’ in all-flash storage and you’re invited! Flash is enabling capabilities never before seen in the storage industry and here’s you chance to glimpse at the future. We have a number of ways you can join us including a live broadcast from New York city…
5 Takeaways on XtremIO 4.0 from EMC World 2015
Like most in the storage industry, I’ve been paying close attention to EMC World 2015. In the absence of a genuine industry technical conference, EMC World provides the market with insight and perspective from the industry’s king-pin; an unveiling of the efforts of EMC engineering and a glimpse of where their sales and marketing efforts…
CIO Discussions on Agility and Future Enterprise Trends
Recenlty I was asked to join a panel conversation as a part of the HMG Strategy LLC, CIO Summit. The videos below are from the recent event in Palo Alto, CA. The panel session wass moderated by former Executive VP & CIO of Delta Dental of California, Patrick Steele and includes Patrick Harr, Vice President &…
Experts Round Table: Flash Mythbusters
The Spiceworks ‘Flash Mythbusters‘ experts round table is available and online for those who missed the live event. Flash technologiests from EMC, Nimble Storage, Pure Storage and SolidFire to set aside their competitive differencees in order to debunk some of the top myths surrounding flash storage. I find community events like this one compelling as…
Hyper-Converged Infrastructures are not Storage Arrays
From the title of this post you may be surprised to find that I’m a huge fan of hyper-converged infrastructures (HCI). Frankly, they fill a market need that for years customers have either been struggling to address with storage arrays or worse ignoring all together. HCI is a perfect solution for retail locations, bank branches,…
FlashStack CI: Why all-flash advances the converged infrastructure market
Last week Pure Storage launched FlashStack CI – our Converged Infrastructure with Cisco and VMware. Based on the volume of coverage from the press and analysts it appears we hit the mark. With a market currently estimated in excess of $6B USD (per Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems), the Converged Infrastructure (CI) market is sizable and all indications suggest it…