Cast your minds back to 2009. At that time, Chuck Hollis wrote a blog post that quoted the following definition:
“Frankenstorage appears to be a new twist on [the Frankenstein] idea — storage arrays, assembled from various parts from multiple vendors, brought to life by the magic of powerpoints and press releases.”
The crux of the [...]
The latest Gartner ECB survey is out and as discussed in my last post, I’ve updated my data to reflect the latest set of figures. The vendors all have ups and downs each quarter so this data is particularly interesting as it covers year end 2012 and allows [...]
Today marks the first time in probably 20 years that none of the computing devices in my home are PCs. The homebrew PC tower unit used until recently by Son#2 is being shipped out after being stripped of anything useful. He now uses a Raspberry Pi and screen to RDP into a virtual desktop in [...]
Reading this recent article on ZDNet I was struck by the pointlessness of Google’s 1TB of user storage offering. This may seem like a bold statement, but let’s look at the figures and the offering. If you buy a Chromebook Pixel, it comes with [...]
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The last few weeks have seen a couple of important flash technology announcements. They are important as they bring two of the “Big 5/6″ storage vendors up to speed in a market that is already pretty well occupied. Unfortunately all of these announcements are coupled with hyperbole, figure hiding and in some cases, bare-faced [...]
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Nexenta, the software-only storage company received a further $24m in funding last week and had a swap around of their top execs, with former CEO Evan Powell moving to Chief Strategy Officer. Nexenta have been described by some (including themselves) as Software Defined Storage, [...]
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Without a clear definition, it’s difficult to answer the question posed as the title of this post. Last time I mentioned Hitachi, VPLEX from EMC, Nutanix and SolidFire. Since posting the last blog entry, [...]
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