Chris Evans takes a look at the current state of Violin Systems, a company he got to see at Storage Field Day back in 2016 when it was known as Violin Memory. The company has gone through more than just a name change since that time, having significant financial and management shakeups. Chris overviews what made them an early all-flash storage leader, and where he sees their technology taking the company going forward.
Future Storage, Flash, and Cloud?
As someone who would have bet good money that Zip disks were going to take over storage in the late 90s, my own ability to predict the future of storage is dubious at best. Alastair Cooke is under no such scrutiny. He reviews what some are seeing as the future of storage: a combination of flash and object cloud storage. He sees two potential solutions for this from ClearSky Data and Avere Systems. ClearSky uses a geographically tiered flash system to quickly represent your data, and Avere uses local flash to focus on file share performance. Alastair might question if flash + cloud will be the correct formulation, but he liked what he saw from Avere and ClearSky.
ClearSky Data Raise $27 Million For Cloud Storage Service
ClearSky Data Raise $27 Million For Cloud Storage Service
Compute in the cloud and storage on premises? Are you serious?
Compute in the cloud and storage on premises? Are you serious?
