Data Mobility – Caching Technologies

As part of his series looking at data mobility for the hybrid cloud, Chris Evans digs into the four main options for hybrid cloud caching. He reviews NAS, VM, database, and storage gateway caching, looking at the challenges involved for each.


Primary Data – Seeing the Future

As 2017 comes to a close, there’s the inevitable glut of predictions as to what’s in store for the next year. IT is no exception to this, and Dan Frith entertains some from Primary Data. Dan saw the company present at Storage Field Day earlier this year, and looks at their predictions for what 2018 will bring for software-defined storage and HCI.


Primary Data Attacks Application Ignorance

At Primary Data’s Storage Field Day presentation, they brought up the idea that applications are “unaware”. This ignorance is to the underlying infrastructure, as they are not generally written with a specific set of hardware or specification in mind. Dan Frith shares his thoughts on their solution to this problem, DataSphere, “a metadata engine that automates the flow of data across the enterprise infrastructure and the cloud to meet evolving application demands”.


Storage is Getting Cloudier!

Stephen Foskett shares his thoughts on the increasing cloudification of storage. He highlights NetApp’s move into Microsoft’s Azure cloud as a prime example. It’s all part of what Stephen calls the “Year of Cloud Extension”!


The Year of Cloud Extension

The idea of incorporating cloud storage into the data center has been around for a while. But Stephen Foskett thinks we’re seeing philosophically different approaches to it recently, with many companies embracing the premise of data non-locality. Stephen sees this change in the assumption from data being tied to a data center to the cloud as a transformative shift allowing for true data center transformation.


Primary Data set to make their 5th appearance at Storage Field Day

Primary Data returns for their fifth presentation at next month’s Storage Field Day. Mike Preston will be there, and he has a preview to get everyone up to speed. He reviews their corporate history and DataSphere solution, which helps organization disaggregate applications from the data they use. It’s an interesting product, and we’re sure to get a technical deep dive during their presentation.


Primary Data adds NFS services to VSAN

Primary Data adds NFS services to VSAN


Focus on High Performance NAS

Focus on High Performance NAS


Is Media & Entertainment the golden goose of Object Storage vendors?

Is Media & Entertainment the golden goose of Object Storage vendors?


Storage Field Day 11 Previews: Avere, Primary Data, Scality

Storage Field Day 11 Previews: Avere, Primary Data, Scality


Flying soon towards Storage Field Day 11!

Flying soon towards Storage Field Day 11!


VMworld ’16 TFDx: PrimaryData

VMworld ’16 TFDx: PrimaryData


What’s a Data Professional Doing at #VMWorld?

What’s a Data Professional Doing at #VMWorld?


Data Virtualisation is More Than Just Migration for Primary Data

Data Virtualisation is More Than Just Migration for Primary Data


Breaking down storage silos with Primary Data DataSphere

Breaking down storage silos with Primary Data DataSphere


Defining Software-defined Storage definition. Definitely. – Juku.it

Defining Software-defined Storage definition. Definitely. – Juku.it


Primary Data: a true Software-defined Storage platform?

Primary Data: a true Software-defined Storage platform?


Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Primary Data

Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Primary Data


Storage Field Day 10 Next Week

Storage Field Day 10 Next Week


Primary Data – One year after

Primary Data – One year after