After months of teasing that synchronous replication was coming, Nimble has finally delivered the capabilities to customers. HPE announced the new capability this week during HPE Discover in Madrid, but it went beyond simple replication in the same announcement. HPE also enabled the ability to do metro clustering between Nimble storage arrays in the same…
Repost: E8 Storage and Mellanox BlueField SmartNIC deliver high performance with hardware acceleration
E8 Storage and Mellanox BlueField SmartNIC deliver high performance with hardware acceleration Showcasing a live demo at SuperComputing 2018, the integration optimizes computing resources while accelerating data intensive workloads SANTA CLARA, Calif., November 13, 2018 – E8 Storage today announced it is expanding its technology partnership with Mellanox with an integrated solution built on Mellanox BlueField SmartNICs, which…
Spectra Logic Announces the World’s Largest Data Storage Machine
Spectra Logic Announces the World’s Largest Data Storage Machine Capable of Protecting More than 2,000 Petabytes (2EB) of Digital Assets. Wow, That’s mind-bending ammounts of storage 20TB per tape at 400MB/s ! Congratulations to Spectra Logic on pushing the boundaries and giving us a glimpse of the future! Read more at the official press release…
E8 STORAGE ACCELERATES PERFORMANCE FOR GENOMIC WORKLOADS AT QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
E8 STORAGE ACCELERATES PERFORMANCE FOR GENOMIC WORKLOADS AT QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Having worked both as a researcher in computational chemistry and as IT support for the Department of Chemistry at a major University I understand the demards and inportance of storage in such an environment. I congratulate Queen Mary University of London for…
How NetApp MetroCluster Works
This post covers NetApp MetroCluster, a business continuity solution which provides synchronous data replication between two sites within 300km. Before getting into the MetroCluster details, let’s have a quick review of the NetApp High Availability feature first. When a Controller Fails The controller is the brains of the storage system and provides clients access to…
SpiceWorld Recap
If you talk to me about conferences much you’d probably start to call me a broken record for how much I espouse the virtues of the communities that can grow amongst conference attendees. I regularly tell people that the real value isn’t in cramming a schedule full of sessions (which will generally be recorded) or…
NETAPP INSIGHT 2018 – TFDX- Data Fabric 2.0
It’s Wednesday. We are here at the Netapp Insight event. And Netapp again is presenting on NetApp Data Fabric 2.0 @Arjantim @ChanEk81 @DeepStorageNet @settlersoman @darkkavenger @RayLucchesi @sfoskett @MBLeib @BenTGage https://tfd.bz/2pXpD82 also we have @davidchapa @ChrisMaki @mcbride_ruairi at the table and @PeytStefanova and @timwaldron in the room! Yes it’s the hashtag #NetAppInsight and #TFDx ! Here we go!…
NETAPP INSIGHT 2018 – TFDX- MAX Data
It’s Wednesday. We are here at the Netapp Insight event. And Netapp again is presenting on MAX Data. A Few of the delegates. @Arjantim @ChanEk81 @DeepStorageNet @settlersoman @darkkavenger @RayLucchesi @sfoskett @MBLeib @BenTGage https://tfd.bz/2pXpD82 also we have @davidchapa @ChrisMaki @mcbride_ruairi at the table and @PeytStefanova and @timwaldron in the room! Yes it’s the hashtag #NetAppInsight and #TFDx ! …
Netapp Insight 2018 – Keynote Day 2
It’s day three here at Netapp Insight. And we are gearing up for our second keynote shortly. Below I will do a live blog as I can of the keynote. Today’s focus is netapp’s data fabric. On the stage Henri Richard. He talks about leveraging you data. He likes…
Netapp Insight 2018 – TFDx- HCI Revealed! Hyper Converged or Hybrid Cloud?
I am sitting in Las Vegas , at a round table with some great colleagues today. No not at a poker table, but at yet another Tech Field Day. A Few of the delegates. @Arjantim @ChanEk81 @DeepStorageNet @settlersoman @darkkavenger @RayLucchesi @sfoskett @MBLeib @BenTGage https://tfd.bz/2pXpD82 also we have @davidchapa @ChrisMaki @mcbride_ruairi at the table and @PeytStefanova and @timwaldron…