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.
Have a few days to spare? We need to upgrade the XtremIO
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 […]
A bit of housekeeping – retiring a few blog posts
It’s been a year since I joined the flash revolution and as the anniversary nears I feel its an appropriate time for a bit of blog housekeeping. I am retiring some of the posts I’ve authored during my time at NetApp. The technical posts that include content beneficial to the broader storage, cloud and IT […]
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 […]
All-Flash Arrays: The New Tier-1 in Storage
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 […]