Read between the lines of VMware’s latest VSAN announcement and you can learn a few things. The first thing I see is that VMware is definitely feeling the pinch — or at the very least worried they will feel the…
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Where is the Cloud? The Cloud is a Method, Not a Location
In IT circles when the discussion of “the cloud” comes up, whether for cloud compute or cloud storage, the first thought is a public cloud like Amazon, Google or Azure. But the reality is the cloud is not a location,…
A Cloud Vendor Actually in the Clouds
Science fiction is about to be honest to goodness science. The reason? A company called Cloud Constellation will put data centers in space. They call it “SpaceBelt, The Information Ultra-Highway — a cloud vendor above all others.” The idea is…
Asigra is Backing up Docker Containers
The first commercial solution designed for backing up containers is here. So the first question is: do you need to back up containers? The answer is really up to you. Whether or not they need backup depends on how you…
Accelerating Reads and Writes with PernixData
Everyone acknowledges that flash storage is faster than spinning disk, and most acknowledge that the closer to the CPU this storage is, the more it accelerates I/O performance. In addition, everyone agrees that the only thing currently faster than flash…
Scaling, There’s More To it Than Just Adding Nodes
Driven by either the demand for more capacity, more performance or both, every storage system at some point has to scale. Broadly there are two types of scaling available: scale-up or scale-out. Scale-up systems scale by adding more capabilities to…
Can IT do Cloud Storage better than Cloud Providers?
Outsourcing some or all of your organization’s storage needs to a cloud provider sounds very appealing to overworked IT professionals. After all, who wouldn’t want to get rid of having to deal with storage management, data protection and upgrades? Cloud…
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EMC Pivoting to SDS & Cloud?
The keynote presentations at EMC World seemed very different to me this year. I’ve been to several EMC World conferences, and this one seemed to suggest a pivot for the company that we followed for so many years. To me,…
Backing up Databases in Docker Containers
Docker is for ephemeral data and shouldn’t have data that needs to be backed up. Or at least that’s what I was told for a while. And then I met the head of development for a large bank in Australia…
Veeam moves to the Public Cloud: Veeam V9
Veeam has been a leader in the private cloud world for a while now, but in its latest release it set its sights on using the public cloud in the same way their customers have. It is also adding support…
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