Category Archives: Tech Field Day

Cloud integration with Cohesity storage platform

Cohesiy added Cloud integration to their secondary storage platform, featuring 3 cost-effective solutions for archival, tiering and replication. They had added a good set of features recently with their 2.0 release. Cohesity presented at Storage Field Day 9, in which … Continue reading

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Leader, in technology and in figures that matter – all in just 2 years.

The phase of transition in data storage now is mainly anchored on 2 architectural approaches – All-Flash storage arrays as a result of the Flash domination and the second is the HCI (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure). The competition is really tough in … Continue reading

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The all-new FlashBlade is here from Pure Storage

Yesterday (14-Mar), Pure Storage announced their new All-Flash products at the Pure//Accelerate event. FlashBlade is to support unstructured data (File, Object, containers etc…) requirements and FlashArray//m10 to strengthen their FlashArray//m series. FlashBlade, the cloud-scale data platform provides All-Flash efficiency and performance … Continue reading

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Storage Field Day 9 – presenting companies

During this time next week, there will be some serious discussions on Flash, Hyper-Convergence, Primary/Secondary Storage and more at Storage Field Day 9. Storage Field Day always have awesome (may not be huge always) vendors from industry to present their solutions. This time … Continue reading

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Nimble Storage announced their Predictive All Flash Arrays

Today Nimble Storage caught the headlines as they announced the new line of predictive All-Flash-Arrays..! We were impressed by Nimble during their presentations at SFD8 and today they impressed the industry with their new range of products. The new product line comes with … Continue reading

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With FLASH, things are changing ‘in a flash’ !?

The data storage industry has gone through major changes in the past 5-7 years. And is still in the phase of changes. The user requirements has changed from “More GB’s or TB’s” to “More IOPS”. Introduction of FLASH drives been … Continue reading

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To Silicon Valley again – Storage Field Day 9

I will be at Silicon Valley once again in the third week of March, as it is will be the time for Tech Field Day awesomeness once again, it is the time for Storage Field Day, it is the time for Storage Field … Continue reading

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Cohesity – Secondary storage consolidation

While almost the entire storage industry is interested in making the storage ready for mission critical environments/data, Cohesity thouhgt the other way. They started working to re-define the way Secondary data being dealt. Their presentation at Storage Field Day 8 discussed their vision and how … Continue reading

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Understanding NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express)

SFD8 (Storage Field Day 8) gave us a great opportunity to listen from Intel about a few latest technologies on SSDs (Solid State Drives). The main discussions were on NVMe, 3D XPOINT, ISA-L etc… . I had to do some serious self … Continue reading

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All-Flash symphony from Violin Memory

Violin Memory is a US based Public company known for their AFA (All-Flash-Array ) storage systems in the market. Storage Field Day 8 (SFD8) helped me in having a deeper dive to the technical details of  Violin’s AFA products. Let us discuss … Continue reading

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