Yesterday Oracle Corp announced their intention to acquire Xsigo Systems Inc for an as yet undisclosed sum of money. Xsigo was one of the original presenters at Tech Field Day back in November 2009. That was the the inaugural event where I met [...]
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Over the last couple of years I’ve moved away from personal physical disk media to using technologies like Dropbox as my method of carrying around files. This is a pretty obvious migration; Dropbox, Google Drive and others provide additional features, including the most obvious one; they keep all your data [...]
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In the past decade or so, storage management has developed into a discipline in its own right, driven by big increases in the amount of data being stored, as well as the rise of storage networking protocols that facilitate shared storage.
Virtualization, meanwhile, has become the foremost technology for server and PC [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Texas Memory Systems have just announced that their RamSan-70 PCIe SSD cards can now be used as bootable devices. Currently support is restricted only to Linux operating systems with x86 64-bit hardware supporting the UEFI boot standard, but Windows support [...]
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My latest article and podcast are up on searchstorage.co.uk. I discuss the use of cloud storage for archiving. Links are below.
Cloud archiving: A viable alternative to in-house archiving systems (Podcast) Cloud archive: The most mature of the cloud storage services (Article) [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Here are my slides from the London VMUG yesterday. It was a great event and thanks to everyone who attended the session. Good to meet you all!
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This week has seen announcements from two companies I’ve been interested in and following for some time.
Nasuni
Nasuni makes a storage appliance that stores all of a customer’s data in “the cloud”. It’s available either as a physical device (effectively a server running their software) or as a virtual [...]
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