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’...
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...
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...
On March 14, 2016, Pure Storage announced its new FlashBlade solid state array. Differentiated from its flagship product, FlashArray//m, FlashBlade focuses more on capacity and sharing data. According to Pure Storage’s own press release, the FlashBlade, which consists...
If you asked me even at the end of last year, I would have told you that the commercial enterprise will not have an all flash datacenter any time in the future. This week, I was proven wrong. I love being proved wrong, because it means what I thought was not possible...
