We talk with our IT clients on a regular basis, and also conduct primary research into emerging IT trends. One of the leading trends we hear is the adoption and deployment of cloud native applications, including containers and Kubernetes, and...
Read More »Prelude This blog was not sponsored or suggested to me by any 3rd party, the thoughts and opinions are mine, based upon my experience using and testing these technologies with a variety of environments and applications. What prompted me to...
Read More »I have been involved with testing computer and storage systems for more than 30 years working in a variety of roles, including test engineering, and IT management roles. This is always interesting because by design, you are testing new configurations...
Read More »For much of the last year, vendors have been discussing end-to-end NVMe, but have not had anything tangible outside of statements of direction and “technology demonstrations”. With the announcement of end-to-end FC-NVMe solutions from both Dell-EMC and NetApp - and...
Read More »I just recently completed testing a Hyperconverged system using three new technologies: Intel Xeon Scalable processor systems Intel Optane storage and Intel NVMe Flash VMware vSAN 6.6 software The results showed significant performance enhancements, but more importantly significantly better price...
Read More »"The Best Storage System" by Russ Fellows As a storage analyst, I often get asked the same question, “What is the best array?” My answer has evolved slightly over the years, but now I use a very direct and clear...
Read More »Russ Fellows delivered "Solid State Deployments: Recommendations for POCs" at SNIA's Data Storage Innovation conference on Tuesday, April 7. If you weren't able to catch his presentation live, view his slides here on-demand.
Read More »In case you’ve been head down, buried in work this week you may have missed the announcement of VMware vSphere 6. If you are a VMware admin, you have likely been tracking this release for over a year. However, if...
Read More »The Next Storage Management War [caption id="attachment_10593" align="alignleft" width="174"] Storage Management Wars[/caption] Storage management is a mundane topic; one too dry even for most seasoned IT and storage administrators. However, it appears to be getting interesting again. This means that...
Read More »In what is an unfortunate cost of doing business in the cloud era, an online hosting service “CodeSpaces.com” has ceased operations today after several days of online attacks. Ironically, only two days ago, CodeSpaces website claimed to provide “Rock Solid,...
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