Many times in the past, I’ve written about the Copy Data Protection / Copy Data Management (CDP/CDM) space. The concept of backup and recovery has dynamically changed…… Read more “Pure’s ObjectEngine: Ensures Data Integrity and Accessibility”
Tag: Cloud
Tech Field Day exclusive at Intel’s Data-Centric Innovation Day
For quite a while now, I’ve been a Delegate for Tech Field Day, concentrating primarily on the Storage Field Day events. These have been great events, presenting…… Read more “Tech Field Day exclusive at Intel’s Data-Centric Innovation Day”
The Plexiglass tower and the Cloud When is the cloud not the best choice?
So many companies today have corporate initiatives to move to the cloud, and while that’s awesome in many ways, it can also be a poor choice for…… Read more “The Plexiglass tower and the Cloud When is the cloud not the best choice?”
IT manager’s story of push-back in a Hybrid Environment
I’ve attempted to locate a manager or company willing to commit to the pretense of corporate push-back against a Hybrid mentality. I’ve had many conversations with customers…… Read more “IT manager’s story of push-back in a Hybrid Environment”
IT Trends for 2016 Part2 – Serverless Computing/MicroServices
Today’s posting steps out of my core skills a bit. I’ve always been an infrastructure guy. I build systems. I help my customers with storage, infrastructure, networking,…… Read more “IT Trends for 2016 Part2 – Serverless Computing/MicroServices”
High Availability: Part III – Cloud
High availability, as it relates to the cloud is a very convoluted concept. For example, the impetus for my creating this series had to do with the…… Read more “High Availability: Part III – Cloud”
A new approach to seeing your Virtual Environment health
@CloudPhysics https://www.cloudphysics.com/ , who presented to us at the #TFD11 created a unique idea geared toward the idea that the general health of your virtual infrastructure is…… Read more “A new approach to seeing your Virtual Environment health”
Shadow IT and the emergence of Cloud in the Enterprise
The vast majority of my customers are highly virtualized, and quite potentially using Amazon or Azure in a shadow IT kind of approach. Some groups within the…… Read more “Shadow IT and the emergence of Cloud in the Enterprise”
NetApp’s approach to Data as Fabric
Dave Hitz, the founder of NetApp, quoting William Gibson: The Future is already here, but it’s not very evenly distributed Another of the very interesting deliveries to…… Read more “NetApp’s approach to Data as Fabric”
Why IOPS?
In the early days of storage, IO was all about disc. The more spinning disc you placed into a lun, the more redundancy, IO, and the less…… Read more “Why IOPS?”
