When it comes to AWS sentiment for enterprise uses there are two distinct views: “AWS wasn’t designed for enterprise workloads” and “AWS can be used for enterprise workloads”. The opinions are heavily polarized, and in my experience any time you… Read More ›
Anytime we have a product release or when a nascent market starts to become more mainstream, the result is massive amounts of confusion for most customers, and with good reason — vendor marketing goes into overdrive, competitive documents fly around… Read More ›
At 30,000ft in the air over the holiday weekend, and with no wifi, one’s mind tends to wander a bit. And thus I spent some time thinking about the current happenings in the storage market. Things like: the recent VNX2… Read More ›
Introducing XtremIO XtremIO is EMC’s foray into the all flash array market. It is a ground up array design built exclusively for flash. I’ll start by giving an overview of the product, its features, and then do a deep dive… Read More ›
It is no secret that flash is changing the storage landscape dramatically and while we are in the beginning stages of all flash arrays becoming common in the market place, customer interest in the technology is ramping up at an… Read More ›
Cisco has acquired (or a least, announced the “intent to acquire” at the time of this writing) a “storage company”, Whiptail. There has been speculation that Cisco would enter the storage market through acquisition for years, just as there has… Read More ›
With the VNX2 marketing event (Speed to Lead) dust settling, customers are now asking “whats in it for me”. Although the MCx re-write is nothing short of phenomenal from an engineering perspective, the reality is that the majority of customers… Read More ›
With the release of Recoverpoint 4.0, one of the most popular enhancements is the option to deploy the solution using virtual RPAs. Previous to Recoverpoint 4.0, the only option was to use physical appliances. We are now able to run… Read More ›
Anytime there is a product with the name “cloud” it tends to stir up a lot of interest from customers & peers. On one end of the spectrum you have vendors that simply take existing products and rebrand them as… Read More ›
One of the common conversations in my customer base and among SE peers is around vSphere Data Protection and how it compares to Avamar. It is no secret that the latest incarnation of VDP and VDP Advanced have Avamar technology… Read More ›
