by Ben Woo | Apr 13, 2016 | Archived, Brief, Infrastructure & the Cloud
On April 12, 2016, FalconStor, a 16-year veteran of software-defined storage (SDS) announced enhancements to its software. Coincidentally, Cloudian, a competitor, also announced a major release to its software HyperStore. Neuralytix recognizes FalconStor as one of the... by Ben Woo | Apr 13, 2016 | Archived, Brief, Infrastructure & the Cloud
On April 12, 2016, Cloudian, a software defined storage (SDS) vendor released Hyperstore 6.0. In its announcement, Cloudian focused on three key areas – durability, operations and tuning. Durability, in Cloudian terms is the taking advantage of Amazon AWS’... by Ben Woo | Apr 8, 2016 | Archived, Brief, Infrastructure & the Cloud
At Neuralytix, we have been debating whether or not online storage vendors actually make money. So far, the mass consensus is NO; and that they will never get to a point where that part of that business won’t simply be a loss leader for other services. But what...
by Tom Petrocelli | Apr 5, 2016 | Archived, Data & Information Platforms, Insight
Recently at the Cloudera Analyst Conference, open source was front and center. In fact, it was suggested that they stressed open source so much that their unique value seemed to be lost. What stood out the most was not how they embraced open source so much as how...
by Tom Petrocelli | Apr 1, 2016 | Archived, Data & Information Platforms, Infrastructure & the Cloud, Insight
Google has been in the cloud platform business for years yet is always portrayed as an also-ran to Amazon’s AWS cloud services. Even when Google is praised for its enterprise cloud offerings in the press, there is always a comment along the lines of “but they’re way...