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Amazon, Azure and Google in race to the bottom … of cloud storage pricing

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Good post by Chris Mellor (thank you) over at El Reg

Storage 2016 A period of quiet, rest and reflection is what the storage industry needs after a frankly hectic and very eventful 2015.

It won’t get it. The opposing forces of simplicity and complexity, access speed versus capacity, server versus array, on premises versus cloud, and tuned hardware and software versus software-defined are still in deep conflict. And don’t forget the containerisation issues in the background.

There is also a growing generalised attack on storage data access latency, just to add something else into the mix.

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by rogerluethy on January 5, 2016  •  Permalink
Posted in Big Data, Cloud, Datacenter, Information, Infrastructure, Virtualization
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Posted by rogerluethy on January 5, 2016

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/amazon-azure-and-google-in-race-to-the-bottom-of-cloud-storage-pricing/

Pure gives its flash boxes some 3D TLC

Post by Chris Mellor (thank you) over at El Reg

Pure Storage wants to be its flash array customers’ best friend forever with announcements lowering flash storage cost and improving its availability.

The Silicon Valley biz is now supporting 3D TLC flash, the three-bits-per-cell stuff that has an endurance long enough for enterprise use. Other flash array suppliers using this technology include HP Enterprise, Kaminario, and Dell.

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by rogerluethy on November 18, 2015  •  Permalink
Posted in Datacenter, Flash, Information, Infrastructure, SAN, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization
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Posted by rogerluethy on November 18, 2015

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2015/11/18/pure-gives-its-flash-boxes-some-3d-tlc/

Purely Observations on Dell / EMC Deal

Post by Scott Dietzen (thank you)

Big news out of Round Rock, Texas and Hopkinton, Massachusetts yesterday: Dell and EMC have signed a definitive agreement under which Dell, together with Michael Dell, MSD Partners and Silver Lake, will acquire EMC. We want to share our insights on this news, and explain what it means for the storage market.

Pure Storage both cooperates and competes with both companies. Many of our customers also run Dell servers and VMware software, but we of course compete with both EMC and Dell storage. Our thoughts:

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by rogerluethy on October 14, 2015  •  Permalink
Posted in Datacenter, EMC, Flash, Hyperconverged, Information, Infrastructure, SAN, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization, VMware
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Posted by rogerluethy on October 14, 2015

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2015/10/14/purely-observations-on-dell-emc-deal/

Virtual Volumes (VVols) and Replication/DR

Good post by Cormac Hogan (thank you)

There have been a number of queries around Virtual Volumes (VVols) and replication, especially since the release of KB article 2112039 which details all the interoperability aspects of VVols.

In Q1 of the KB, the question is asked “Which VMware Products are interoperable with Virtual Volumes (VVols)?” The response includes “VMware vSphere Replication 6.0.x”.

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by rogerluethy on April 13, 2015  •  Permalink
Posted in Datacenter, EMC, HP, Hyperconverged, Information, Infrastructure, SAN, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization, VMware
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Posted by rogerluethy on April 13, 2015

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/virtual-volumes-vvols-and-replicationdr/

Dell Flash Storage Strategy and Outlook

Good video from the TechFieldDay (thank you)

John Shirley, Sr. Manager, Planning & Strategy, outlines Dell’s flash storage strategy and outlook. Recorded as part of Virtualization Field Day 4 in Austin, TX on January 16, 2015. For more information, visit http://TechFieldDay.com/event/vfd4/ or http://Dell.com

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by rogerluethy on March 10, 2015  •  Permalink
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Posted by rogerluethy on March 10, 2015

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/dell-flash-storage-strategy-and-outlook/

How to make sense of the expanding hyper-converged market

Post by Garry Kranz (thank you)

Enterprise Strategy Group storage analyst Mark Bowker said VMware’s EVO: RAIL initiative should spur greater innovation by ‘disruptive’ hyper-converged storage startups in 2015.

The nascent hyper-converged market received strong industry validation in 2014. Dell signed an OEM partnership deal with Nutanix, and VMware moved fully into the market with its virtual SAN software followed by its EVO: RAIL initiative, which allows storage array vendors to launch systems with Virtual SAN software.

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by rogerluethy on February 5, 2015  •  Permalink
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Posted by rogerluethy on February 5, 2015

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/how-to-make-sense-of-the-expanding-hyper-converged-market/

Flash market skyrockets as big boys get in on the action

Post by Hannah Breeze (thank you)

Market value reached $11.3bn in 2014

The flash market is no longer being driven purely by aggressive startups, according to IDC, which has pointed to a flurry of storage giants that have cottoned on and helped propel the market to new heights.

In 2014, the global flash-based array market grew to $11.3bn (£7.43bn) – $10bn from the hybrid-flash array (HFA) market and the rest coming from all-flash arrays (AFAs).

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by rogerluethy on January 9, 2015  •  Permalink
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Posted by rogerluethy on January 9, 2015

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/flash-market-skyrockets-as-big-boys-get-in-on-the-action/

Hybrids Moving to All-Flash Configurations

Post by Brian Beeler (thank you)

Often we neatly categorize storage into a few convenient buckets; Big Storage, All-Flash Arrays and Hybrids. Each has a connotation of its own, big storage includes the usual suspects like EMC, Dell, HP, IBM and the like. AFAs generally include startups or recently acquired efforts like Pure Storage, XtremIO and at times flash offerings from big storage. The hybrid category is one of the most interesting because even though all the big storage vendors offer hybrid products, this loosely refers to the startups in the space like Nimble, Tegile and StorTrends. Definitions are perpetually changing though; the idea of hybrid itself is on the move.

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by rogerluethy on September 16, 2014  •  Permalink
Posted in Cisco, EMC, Flash, HP, IBM, Information, SAN, Virtualization
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Posted by rogerluethy on September 16, 2014

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/hybrids-moving-to-all-flash-configurations/

Hyper-Convergence And All Flash On The Way

Post by Howard Marks (thank you)

Will a combination of the two shiniest technologies in the storage business make a match like champagne and caviar, or will it create a system looking more like a chocolate-covered pickle?

A few of my fellow storage pundits have lately taken to predicting the arrival of the all-flash hyper-converged system.

At VMworld this year, Micron was demonstrating an all-flash VSAN cluster. The company crammed a pair of Dell R610 servers with 12 core processors, 768 GB of RAM and two tiers of SSDs, a pair of 1.4 TB P420 PCIe cards to hold VSAN’s read and write caches, and 10 960 GB M500s as the “bulk storage” tier. And while some technologies —  like flash and data deduplication — go together like champagne and caviar, an all-flash hyper-converged system looks more like a chocolate-covered pickle to me.

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by rogerluethy on September 15, 2014  •  Permalink
Posted in Cisco, Cloud, Flash, Hyperconverged, Information, SAN, Virtualization, VMware
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Posted by rogerluethy on September 15, 2014

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/hyper-convergence-and-all-flash-on-the-way/

You know what Cisco needs? A server SAN strategy

Post by Chris Mellor (thank you) over at El Reg

Cisco has no SAN/filer legacy to escape from and, in a storage world where the hyper-converged server/storage/networking system is only getting trendier, it has a major opportunity on its hands.

Consider the mainstream storage vendors – Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, HDS, HP, IBM and NetApp – their storage product line heartland is the shared, networked array.

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by rogerluethy on September 9, 2014  •  Permalink
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Posted by rogerluethy on September 9, 2014

https://rogerluethy.wordpress.com/2014/09/09/you-know-what-cisco-needs-a-server-san-strategy/

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