Vaughn Stewart

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Catch the Podcast: GreyBeards on Flash and Storage Market Disruption

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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

Have a few days to spare? We need to upgrade the XtremIO

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Recently the news wire has been abuzz with the revelation that EMC XtremIO customers wanting to upgrade the system software to the coming XIOS version 3.0 will be disruptive. To be clear, this isn’t the typical run-of-the-mill, inconvenient, disruptive upgrade you’ve come to loathe. It’s destructive to your data. An upgrade to XIOS 3.0 requires all data on the XtremIO to be … [Read more...] about Have a few days to spare? We need to upgrade the XtremIO

All-Flash Arrays: The New Tier-1 in Storage

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Just under a year ago I joined Pure Storage and shared, “the flash-enabled datacenter is the next seismic shift in IT infrastructure technology.” At that time, some questioned the departure from a large storage industry leader to Pure, an innovative start-up. Those who asked why cited a number of reasons ranging from the miniscule size of the tier-0 market to a view of Flash as … [Read more...] about All-Flash Arrays: The New Tier-1 in Storage

Pure Storage set to paint VMworld 2014 orange!

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VMworld is one of the premier infrastructure technology conferences you can attend. Attendees rave at the insight of the keynotes, the innovation on display by VMware and their partners, the technical depth of the sessions, the ability to get hands on with the technology and of course... the party. Planing for the 2014 event is shaping up to look like another stellar … [Read more...] about Pure Storage set to paint VMworld 2014 orange!