This week I shared my thoughts with SiliconANGLE on the emerging Software-Defined Storage trend. Below is an excerpt: “Hardware Independence is in our DNA” : NetApp Defines its Software-Led Storage Play There’s a Renaissance going on in IT storage right now, transforming an old, clunky system into something that’s not only more agile, but smarter, too. Software is leading the … [Read more...] about My thoughts on Software-Defined Storage in SiliconANGLE
Software-Defined Storage
Software Defined Storage: The Evolution of Storage
Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDC) is emerging as a hot topic in my customer conversations as a means to transform data centers into IT service centers focused on increasing the agility and speed at which they support their application and increase developer productivity. In many ways SDDC could be considered the evolution from server virtualization to data center … [Read more...] about Software Defined Storage: The Evolution of Storage
ChappyChat at Cisco Live – Massive Data Growth, Software-Defined Infrastructures and Bacon!
AT Cisco LIve in London I sat down for a 'ChappyChat' with Craig Chapman of VCE. We had an off-the-cuff chat about the state of datacenter transformations including the massive rate of data growth and the challenges facing customers, the foth-coming wave of Software-Defined Infrastructures, views on shared-nothing technologies, communities, bacon and Chappy's brother … [Read more...] about ChappyChat at Cisco Live – Massive Data Growth, Software-Defined Infrastructures and Bacon!
vCatchup at VMware vForum 2012 in Sydney
Sat down with Craig Waters, leader of the Melborune VMUG user group at the 2012 VMware vForum in Sydney. We discuss the the technical leadership displayed in ANZ, Software-Defined Infrastructures, VMware user groups, and Data ONTAP Edge which is the NetApp Virtual Storage Array (VSA). Craig closes the session asking me for my thoughts on software-based storage arrays (aka … [Read more...] about vCatchup at VMware vForum 2012 in Sydney