with nigel poulton
Today Pure Storage announced a pretty cool new all flash storage array, the Pure Storage FlashArray. An interesting startup playing in an interesting and massively disruptive area of technology. This post guts under the hood of the Pure Storage FlashArray and explains exactly why solid state storage technologies are literally changing the rules when it comes to storage array design.
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Posted in Infosmack Deep Dive, Podcasts, SSD, Solid State Arrays, Storage.
– May 16, 2012
While attended the April 2012 Solid State Storage Symposium in San Jose I had the opportunity to host a panel of experts and technologists from four of the leading solid state storage array vendors. The panel discussed how to design and architect storage arrays built around solid state storage technologies. Some of the questions included….
Posted in SSD, Solid State Arrays, Storage.
– May 10, 2012
I’m not exactly enamoured by Windows Server 2012. I’m not sold on the UI and have not yet seen any killer features to make me, or customers, desperate to have it.
But….. looking closely at version 3.0 of Microsoft’s Server Message Block (SMB) protocol has me excited. It looks the bizzo!
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– May 7, 2012
Next week sees the first ever Solid State Storage Symposium in San Jose, CA.
The who’s who of the solid-state storage world will be in attendance and I’m expecting it to be cracking technical event discussing what is easily the most important and interesting topic in the storage world! In fact one of the attending vendors has recently implied that the solid-state revolution may be as pivotal as the transistor revolution. Interesting take, considering the massive influence on life and society that the transistor has had.
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– April 19, 2012
Hu Yoshida, CTO of Hitachi Data Systems and long time legend of the storage industry is a person I respect a lot. Hu and I recently engaged in a discussion around the validity of architectures like VSP and their designation as Tier 1, which Hu summarised in a recent blog post he cut and pasted wrote. Hu has asked that I summarise my thoughts on the topic in a blog post so that he can fully digest and potentially answer. Here goes. Continued…
Posted in EMC, HDS/Hitachi, HP, SSD, Storage, Sub-LUN, VMAX, VSP.
– April 2, 2012
Last week, Rickatron and I had the privilege of having Dr Garth Gibson, the co-inventor of RAID technology, on the Deep Dive podcast.
To say that Garth is a legend of the technology world is an understatement. Continued…
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Posted in Infosmack Deep Dive, NFS, Podcasts, SSD, Storage, Sub-LUN.
– December 22, 2011
I got pretty excited about SCSI Express the other week when I was at HP Discover in Vienna.
Well…. while there I had a quick Twitter exchange with Scott Lowe and Amnon Izhar about fabrics. This is another topic that gets the old juices flowing.
Posted in HP, I/O Virtualisation, Networking, Servers, Virtualisation, vmware.
– December 8, 2011
I’ve a keen interest in SSD, especially SSD based arrays. So I was pretty damn excited when at last weeks HP Discover event in Vienna I saw would could well be the future of SSD and SSD arrays, and it’s cool, really cool…….
– December 2, 2011
Disclaimer: I’m a self confessed fan of the 3PAR architecture. I think its best and cleanest design of all of the enterprise class storage arrays on the market. But I admit that architecture isn’t everything, service, support, cost etc all play a part in the wider solution.
Anyway, now that that is out of the way…. It’s old news that HP recently announced a major refresh of it’s 3PAR line, the P10000 or 3PAR V-Class. I despise HP’s naming conventions so I will call it V-Class. Continued…
– September 16, 2011
One of the things that bugs me on product launch days is the lack of decent technical info. Sure, there’s always a ton of high level marketing bumph and press releases, but who cares about stuff like that!
With that in mind, the Infosmack Deep Dive team have worked extremely hard to put together 1 hour and 15 minutes of no nonsense deep dive podcasting with some of the most recognised experts on the topics. We’ve done our best to cut through the crap and deliver technical content that you will find hard to find anywhere else.
If you want to know the craic with vSphere 5, this is the best place to find it…
In the show we cover what we feel are the hottest topics, and we spend time on them. Topics such as -
Joining us on the show this week we have some of most recognised professionals and experts on the topics -
Frank Denneman – Consultant Architect at VMware
Duncan Epping – Principal Architect at VMware
It’s fair to say that Duncan and Frank wrote the bible on VMware HA, DRS and Clustering. There first book VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive is honestly one of the best tech books I own. And I’ve ordered my copy of their new book – VMware vSphere 5 Clustering Technical Deepdive.
Michael Heffernan – Chief Technologist at HDS. Heff is responsible for HDS integration with hypervisor products and has some deep hooks in to VMware.
Add to the above, Rick Vanover and myself and we have a team of people doing our absolute best to give the information that you want!
I hope you enjoy the show and learn something. I did.
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Posted in HDS/Hitachi, Podcasts, Storage, Virtualisation, vmware.
– July 12, 2011
