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Tech Field Day Calling…! – #SFD8

Its only just a few days to go for the Storage Field Day 8..! For me this will be the second Tech Field Day event as a delegate and after a wonderful experience at Storage Field Day 7. Here you can … Continue reading

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Cloudian HyperStore – S3-compliant, object storage for all your cloud needs

Cloudian provides their customers with an on-premises Amazon S3 solution with their S3-compliant, object based storage solution. During their  Storage Field Day 7 presentation, the Cloudian team discussed the HyperStore solution and it’s features. Cloudian enables the Enterprise customers to build managed … Continue reading

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EMC CloudArray, cloud storage to local SAN/NAS

CloudArray, a cloud-integrated storage solution from TwinStrata (a company acquired by EMC in 2014) enables the customers to cost-effectively utilize their public/private cloud storage. The solutions are available in both appliance-based and software-only varieties. I recently got a chance to know CloudArray … Continue reading

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Exablox OneBlox Scale-out NAS – an overview

Exablox presented their object-based scale-out NAS solution on Day-3 of the Storage Field Day 7 event by Tech Field Day. Exablox is a scale-out NAS solution provider in the market from early 2013. Solutions from Exablox got some advanced features compared … Continue reading

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EMC vVNX – The hardware-less future…

Recently, during the EMC World 2015 EMC announced the vVNX ( known as Project Liberty during development phase), the software version of EMC VNXe. With EMC vVNX, customers can take advantage of the unified VNXe solution without having dedicated storage hardware. Things … Continue reading

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Hyper-converged solutions – The Maxta way…!

The final presentation from the event – SFD7 – was by Maxta , known for their Hyper-converged solutions in the market. Maxta is offering both appliance based and software-only solutions to the customers. These solutions are targeting customers with a variety of use-cases … Continue reading

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SDS from Springpath – hyper-convergence with greater flexibility

On Day-2 SFD-7, we had a presentation from Springpath – a startup in Software defined Data platform. With the HALO (Hardware Agnostic Log-structure Objects) architecture and multi-platform support, Springpath Data Service (SDS) platform is soon going to be a big competitor to any … Continue reading

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Administering a VMAX-3 series system ? A few things you have to consider..

EMC VMAX-3 series systems were launced almost an year back, and more and more customers are going for VMAX-3 now. From an administration perspective there are few differences with VMAX-3 from the previous VMAX series. You may read the architectural … Continue reading

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Vote now for the top virtualization blogs for 2015

This is time for you to vote for the top virtualization blogs for the year of 2015. Voting started on Sunday, 1st March 2015 and the results for this year is expected to be out by 19th March. Vote now for your best ones … Continue reading

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It’s Storage Field Day again…! – #SFD7

In less than a week now, it’s Storage Field Day again..! I am extremely excited to join the team next week at San Jose, California. A small post here on the event highlights . At first a few lines about the event … Continue reading

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