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Has Dell EMC Redesigned XDP on XtremIO?
Earlier this month Dell EMC announced XtremIO X2, the next generation hardware platform of their once flagship all-flash storage offering. With the new systems, storage capacity per node has been...
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Measuring the Size of the Storage Market
Last week I posted a small comment on the latest IDC Storage Tracker figures. The data shows ODM Direct as the largest category and the one with the most growth (73% year on year). For some time I’ve...
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Four Platforms When One Will Do?
One of the more interesting discussions from SFD14 was the review of the various mid-range platforms that Dell EMC now offers. The merger of the two organisations brought Unity and VNX(e) from EMC,...
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What Next for XtremIO?
The Dell EMC XtremIO team recently presented at Storage Field Day 14. It was an opportunity to catch up on a technology I’ve been less than positive about over the years. So has XtremIO X2 moved on?...
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What is The Container Storage Interface (CSI)?
Despite the initial assumptions that containers wouldn’t need persistent storage, common sense and consensus is moving towards the need to have some sort of continuity with containerised applications....
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Dell EMC to Offer Isilon on Google Cloud Platform
It’s Dell Technologies World this week in Las Vegas and the first announcement of interest is the future offering of the Isilon NAS platform on Google Cloud Platform. The details of Isilon Cloud on...
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The Race towards End-to-End NVMe in the Data Centre
The next greatest thing in storage hardware is the move to NVMe. This is occurring in two ways – conversion of internal designs within shared storage platforms to use NVMe at the “back-end”, and...
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VMworld 2018 – Divergent VMware
Nobody likes to be wrong, least of all me, and it’s with fascination that I look at the news coming out of VMworld 2018 this week. I’m comparing the news to my thoughts on VMware’s future two years...
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Storage Field Day 19 – Vendor Previews
Next week I will be attending Storage Field Day 19, a three-day technical presentation on vendor storage products and services. This post is a preview of the presenting companies and expected topics....
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Storage Management and DevOps
Ever since persistent storage was introduced into computing, we’ve had challenges with efficient storage management. The storage administrator typically held the role of gatekeeper in provisioning and...
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