Rumours of Cisco Acquiring Nutanix – Hyper-Converged Consolidation?
According to Jared Rinderer, via an article that appears in Storage Newsletter, Cisco is on the verge of making a bid to acquire Nutanix, a vendor of hyper-converged systems. The rumour has been...
View ArticleNutanix Goes After Private Cloud with XCP
This week Nutanix held their .NEXT conference in sunny Miami, around plenty of anticipation for what was to be announced. In the hyper-converged market-place there’s not a lot of love lost between the...
View ArticleRumours of Cisco Acquiring Nutanix – Hyper-Converged Consolidation?
According to Jared Rinderer, via an article that appears in Storage Newsletter, Cisco is on the verge of making a bid to acquire Nutanix, a vendor of hyper-converged systems. The rumour has been...
View ArticleNutanix Goes After Private Cloud with XCP
This week Nutanix held their .NEXT conference in sunny Miami, around plenty of anticipation for what was to be announced. In the hyper-converged market-place there’s not a lot of love lost between the...
View ArticleComposable IT – HPEs Next Big Thing
At HPE Discover earlier this month HPE (or Hewlett Packard Enterprise as we now have to call them) announced their next evolution in managed infrastructure for which the company has coined the term...
View ArticleNutanix Files For $200 million Initial Public Offering
As the year closes, news has emerged that Nutanix Inc, a vendor of hyper-converged solutions has finally filed an S-1 with the US SEC for an Initial Public Offering (IPO), presumably to happen in early...
View ArticleHardware Still Matters – Even With Software Defined Storage
This week Atlantis Computing, a vendor of hyper-converged and software defined storage solutions, released a new hardware appliance in their “Hyperscale” range, aimed at the ROBO (Remote Office Branch...
View ArticleHyper-convergence and Private Cloud
Hyper-convergence has been one of the biggest IT trends of the last 24 months, with start-ups and existing technology vendors offering a suite of hardware and software solutions. Many have conflated...
View ArticleFixing Storage Performance with Software
This week I’ve had two interesting briefings that talked about significant storage performance improvements which have been achieved through storage updates. The first was from DataCore, a long time...
View ArticleNetApp Integrated EVO: RAIL – A Triumph of Marketing Over Common Sense
I suspect I wasn’t the only one last week who was scratching his head at the latest idea from NetApp which sees them offering a VMware EVO: RAIL solution that incorporates Data ONTAP filer technology....
View ArticleVSAN 6.2 – Is it RAID or Erasure Coding?
Update: The day after this post was released, VMware issued a clarification post on the Virtual Blocks website. The post pretty much summarises what is written here, with a little more detail,...
View ArticleWill NetApp Build A Hyper-Converged Appliance?
The market for hyper-convergence seems to know no bounds as more and more vendors move into this segment of IT. Last week EMC released their rebranding of the failed VSPEX BLUE platform as VxRAIL with...
View ArticleHyper-Convergence – It’s all About the Appliances
In a recent post I talked about whether NetApp may choose to move into the hyper-converged appliance market. Since then, Cisco has released their own hyper-converged offering called HyperFlex, a...
View ArticleLong Term Evaluation: Scale Computing HC3
For about the last 6 months I’ve been working on a long term evaluation of Scale Computing’s HC3 platform. I was fortunate to be given a cluster of three nodes to use as I choose and today this system...
View ArticlePernixData and Nutanix – Where’s the Synergy?
Although not officially announced, it looks like the acquisition of PernixData by Nutanix is a done deal. Confirmation came from Frank Denneman, Dutch blogger and former tech evangelist for Pernix who...
View ArticleNutanix Acquires PernixData and Calm.io
So it appears the rumours were true as Nutanix finally announces the acquisition of both PernixData and calm.io, a start-up focused on DevOps automation. Naturally the blog post and press release from...
View ArticleNetApp, Storage Class Memory and Hyperconvergence
Chris Mellor at The Register has an interesting article following up on rumours of NetApp moving into the hyper-convergence market. This intention shouldn’t be a surprise in some respects. As the...
View ArticleScale Computing Moves Deeper Into the Enterprise With All-Flash HCI Nodes
Sometimes a technology captures your imagination and shows real promise for developing into something of real value for the customer. Scale Computing is one such company that has continued to...
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Scale Computing Debuts HC3 in Google Cloud Platform
Hyper-converged infrastructure is a great technology for running a range of mixed workloads. With HCI how do you manage DR? Typically the standard solution might be to run up another cluster in a...
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VMware Announces EVO – Hyper-Converged Reference Architectures
The big announcement so far at VMworld 2014 is the final emergence a new reference architecture called EVO and what was covertly known as Project Mystic or Marvin. EVO is VMware’s hyper-converged...
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