A couple of weeks ago I did a webcast with Hewlett Packard’s David Scott, General Manager of their storage division. The event was MC’d by Calvin Zito, the infamous @hpstorageguy. In the video we talk about some of the general challenges in storage and of course as you’d expect, David [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Last week I attended the Next Generation Storage Symposium (NGSS) in San Jose. This was a forerunner to the second Storage Field Day, which I didn’t attend, however. In the NGSS I moderated a panel discussion on next generation storage architecture, with Dave Wright from [...]
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As part of last week’s Storage Field Day event, at the Solid State Storage Symposium I moderated a panel entitled “Solid State – Simply a big cache or a real storage tier?” The full brief was as follows:
Solid state disks blur the boundary between cache and storage, with a [...]
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A few months ago I received a test ioSafe SoloPro external disk drive. This heavyweight unit is designed to withstand fire and water and so could be used as a home backup device for the worst kind of catastrophe. For a few months I ran the device as a Time Machine backup for my main [...]
Continue Reading This Post →I few weeks back I paid a visit to Boston Ltd, a VAR based in St Albans in the UK. Boston sell server hardware and have a number of storage offerings, based on Supermicro hardware and various storage software platforms, in this instance the NexentaStor software. This first of two videos covers the hardware and [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Here’s another video from HP Discover 2011 last week. In this one I talk to Kate Davis about the P4800. I’ve been pretty much all in on commodity storage hardware these days and the P4800 is another example of this. You’ll see in the video that the two blades run [...]
Continue Reading This Post →On day 2, Marc Farley, Nigel Poulton, Enrico Signoretti and myself took a stroll across the Discover Zone floor for a chat and look around. As it turned out, we didn’t see much (well no) technology, but you can get the feel and buzz of the event from this post. In addition Nigel was well [...]
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