Democratizing Data Management
Lately I’ve written a lot about data-management for unstructured data and more in general, about the relationship between data management and secondary storage. Last week, at Storage Field Day 18, I got a confirmation on a couple of things and also the chance to look...
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of HCI
HCI is very popular with organizations of all sizes now, but it’s not perfect. You always need to reach a compromise between performance, flexibility, usability, and cost… this actually happens with practically every type of infrastructure, HCI included. What’s more,...
A Packed Field Day
Next week I'll be traveling to Silicon Valley to attend a really packed Storage Field Day! It's SFD18, the first of 2019, and I'm totally excited about it. As always I'll get back home stoked, after meetings with extraordinary people and a lot of new ideas to...
Cloud storage is expensive? You might not be doing it right!
In my day to day job I talk to a lot of end users. And when it comes to the cloud, there are still many differences between Europe and the US. The European cloud market is much more fragmented than the American one for several reasons, including the slightly different...
Isn’t it time to rethink your cloud strategy?
Last year, at Re:invent, Amazon AWS launched Outpost and finally validated the concept of hybrid-cloud. Not that it was really necessary, but still… At the same time, what a couple of years ago was defined as cloud-first strategy with the idea of starting every new...
Experiences, Ideas, Networking. Introducing Exchange Live!
One of the things I love the most about my job is the interaction with end users. I’ve always believed that to be able to comment on market and technology trends I must look at what really happens in the field, with people applying the technology to real life. This is...
Beyond Data Protection
Yesterday, Veeam announced a $500M funding round. The company is privately held, profitable and with a pretty solid revenue stream coming from hundreds of thousands of happy customers. But, still, they raised $500M! I didn't see it coming, but if you look at what is...
Voices in Data Storage, now online!
I'm very happy to announce that my new podcast, Voices in Data Storage, is now online! Thanks to some great team work at GigaOm, every week I'll be able to record new interviews with end users, vendors and other industry experts to talk about the latest data, storage...
The Cloud Is More Hybrid Now
One could easily become inebriated by the slew of news AWS has year at its main event - re:invent - and this year was no exception. Of the all announcements what impressed me the most though was AWS Outpost. Long story short, Outpost is AWS in a box (rack, to be more...
