[@DataDrivenTalk podcast] Quick take on #HPEDiscover, stay tuned for more!
I'm driving to my home airport to take a flight for London, and tommorow I'll be attending A3 Communications' Technology Live event... So I thought to record this episode (yes, while driving, again!) Last week I attended HPE Discover in Las Vegas and I wanted to share...
Veeam, forward-looking with feet on the ground
Last week I attended VeeamON 2019, in Miami, and I had the chance to get a better idea about the status of the company and where it is headed. I was positively impressed in several occasions, not only by the company and its management, but also by the fact that...
[@DataDrivenTalk podcast] Heading #VeeamON!
I recorded this episode while driving (sorry about the audio quality, 100% hands free though!) and talked about my expectations for #VeeamON, HPE buying Cray, and the webinars about #dataprotection and #hyperconvergence that I'll be hosting later this week. Enjoy the...
Objects Stores and Load Balancers
The most common protocols to access object stores are HTTP/S-based, like S3, and the majority of these storage systems are scale-out. You can think of their front-end as a large pool of web servers. Adding a load balancer is a pretty common practice for avoiding the...
Hardware as a Service – Resellers becoming MSPs
Vendors as well as resellers are switching to subscription-based sales models for hardware as well, so as to mimic the cloud and, according to the end users I spoke to, it sounds like it’s working out very well. Last week Infinidat announced its -...
I’ll be attending Dell Technologies World 2019
Just a quick post to let you know that I'll be in Las Vegas for Dell Technologies World from Sunday 28th of April (evening) to Wednesday 1st of May to get the best out of the show from the keynotes, sessions, 1:1 meetings, expo area, and all other networking...
Data Center Optanization!
On the 2nd of April, at their Data Centric Innovation Day, Intel announced a slew of new products, including brand spanking new ones as well as updates to existing product line-ups. There was some news for everybody – whether your specific interests are in datacenter,...
NetApp, cloudier than ever
A few weeks ago, at Storage Field Day 18, NetApp presented another tool aimed at integrating its on-premises solutions with the cloud, NDAS. As I’ve already mentioned in a previous post, this tool might be somewhat immature, but it has huge potential if...
How IBM is rethinking its data protection line-up
Following up on an article I wrote last week about Storage Field Day 18 and my take on the evolutions of product and strategy of companies like Cohesity and NetApp, today I'd like to talk about IBM and its Spectrum Data Protect Plus. IBM and its data protection...
