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No Flash in the pan
The storage networking market now is teeming with flash solutions. Consumers are probably sick to their stomach getting a better insight which flash solution they should be considering. There are so...
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Praying to the hypervisor God
I was reading a great article by Frank Denneman about storage intelligence moving up the stack. It was pretty much in line with what I have been observing in the past 18 months or so, about the storage...
View ArticleThe reverse wars – DAS vs NAS vs SAN
It has been quite an interesting 2 decades. In the beginning (starting in the early to mid-90s), SAN (Storage Area Network) was the dominant architecture. DAS (Direct Attached Storage) was on the wane...
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Considerations of Hadoop in the Enterprise
I am guilty. I have not been tendering this blog for quite a while now, but it feels good to be back. What have I been doing? Since leaving NetApp 2 months or so ago, I have been active in the scenes...
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The rise of RDMA
I have known of RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) for quite some time, but never in depth. But since my contract work ended last week, and I have some time off to do some personal development, I...
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The power of E8
[Preamble: I was a delegate of Storage Field Day 14 from Nov 8-10, 2017. My expenses, travel and accommodation were paid for by GestaltIT, the organizer and I was not obligated to blog or promote the...
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Of Object Storage, Filesystems and Multi-Cloud
Data storage silos everywhere. The early clarion call was to eliminate IT data storage silos by moving to the cloud. Fast forward to the present. Data storage silos are still everywhere, but this time,...
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The Malaysian Openstack storage conundrum
The Openstack blippings on my radar have ratcheted up this year. I have been asked to put together the IaaS design several times, either with the flavours of RedHat or Ubuntu, and it’s a good thing to...
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Is Pure Play Storage good?
I post storage and cloud related articles to my unofficial SNIA Malaysia Facebook community (you are welcomed to join) every day. It is a community I started over 9 years ago, and there are active live...
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The Return of SAN and NAS with AWS?
AWS what? Amazon Web Services announced Outposts at re:Invent last week. It was not much of a surprise for me because when AWS had their partnership with VMware in 2016, the undercurrents were there to...
View ArticleFrom the past to the future
2019 beckons. The year 2018 is coming to a close and I look upon what I blogged in the past years to reflect what is the future. The evolution of the Data Services Platform Late 2017, I blogged about...
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Storage and Data Management Planning crucial for Malaysian SMBs
Hybrid IT for 2019 and beyond 2019 is here. I am especially buoyed by the strong network storage industry footing in 2018, reported by The Register last week. 2018 was certainly a blowout year for...
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StorPool – Block storage managed well
[Preamble: I have been invited by GestaltIT as a delegate to their Tech Field Day for Storage Field Day 18 from Feb 27-Mar 1, 2019 in the Silicon Valley USA. My expenses, travel and accommodation were...
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Lift and Shift Begone!
I am excited. New technologies are bringing the data (and storage) closer to processing and compute than ever before. I believe the “Lift and Shift” way would be a thing of the past … soon. Data is...
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Whither HPC, HPE?
HPE is acquiring Cray Inc. Almost 3 years ago, HPE acquired SGI. Back in 2017, HPE partnered WekaIO, and invested big in the latest Series C funding of WekaIO just weeks ago. Cray, SGI and WekaIO are...
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Glusterific!
A conversation with a storage executive last week brought up Gluster, a clustered file system I have not explored in many years. I had one interaction months before its acquisition by RedHat® in 2011....
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The hot cold times of HCI
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) is a hot technology. It has been for the past decade since Nutanix took the first mover advantage from the Converged Infrastructure (CI) technology segment and made...
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