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, militarized and mobile emergency response … [Read more...] about Hyper-Converged Infrastructures are not Storage Arrays
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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 … [Read more...] about FlashStack CI: Why all-flash advances the converged infrastructure market
The 4 major trends in enterprise storage in 2014
Has there ever been a more exciting time to be in IT? Seriously, the industry seems to have turned up the volume on innovation up to 11 and there’s no stopping in sight. If we focus only on enterprise storage – a small portion of the industry – I think most agree that the 4 major trends that clearly crossed the chasm from emerging to mass adoption in 2014 were: hybrid storage … [Read more...] about The 4 major trends in enterprise storage in 2014
Catch the Podcast: GreyBeards on Flash and Storage Market Disruption
Recently I caught up with Howard Marks and Ray Lucchesi on the GreyBeards on Storage podcast to discuss Pure Storage and how software is enabling flash to disrupting the $15B performance disk storage market. It's a casual chat filled with a few zingers and laughs. Check it out at the GreyBeards blog or on iTunes. … [Read more...] about Catch the Podcast: GreyBeards on Flash and Storage Market Disruption
VMware VVols: next-gen storage goes back to the future
Storage has been an ever changing and evolving center of innovation propelled in part by the infrastructure changes VMware and cloud computing drove into the data center. This week at VMworld 2014, VMware showcased Virtual SAN (VSAN) and Virtual Volumes (VVols), two areas of storage innovation. VSAN provides the storage element within the new EVO hyper-converged infrastructure … [Read more...] about VMware VVols: next-gen storage goes back to the future