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Chris M Evans has worked in the technology industry since 1987, starting as a systems programmer on the IBM mainframe platform, while retaining an interest in storage. After working abroad, he co-founded an Internet-based music distribution company during the .com era, returning to consultancy in the new millennium. In 2009 Chris co-founded Langton Blue Ltd (http://www.langtonblue.com), a boutique consultancy firm focused on delivering business benefit through efficient technology deployments. Chris writes a popular blog at http://blog.architecting.it, attends many conferences and invitation-only events and can be found providing regular industry contributions through Twitter (@chrismevans) and other social media outlets.
29 Events Attended
1 Field Day Appearances
6 Field Day Videos
- Backing Up the Cloud Roundtable at Storage Field Day 9
- Object Store Backup Roundtable at Storage Field Day 9
- High-Performance Object Stores Roundtable at Storage Field Day 9
- Architecture in the SDDC Panel at SDDC Symposium 2014
- NGSS1 Panel: Next-Generation Array Architecture
- Is solid state simply a big cache or a real storage tier? Panel discussion with Chris Evans
174 Links with Tag @ChrisMEvans
- Coverage: Edge Computing – Reality or Myth?
- Coverage: Measuring Sustainability in Enterprise Storage
- Coverage: Weka 4 – The Data Platform?
- Coverage: StorPool Introduces NVMe/TCP and Public Cloud Support With Release 20
- Coverage: Predicting the Future of Technology Influencers
- Coverage: Optimising Kubernetes With StormForge
- Coverage: NetApp – Transformation, Bifurcation or Re-Invention?
- Coverage: Kubernetes Clusters – Pets or Cattle?
- Coverage: Cloud Field Day 13 – Presenter Previews
- Coverage: VMworld 2021 – Bringing It All Together With Project Ensemble
- Coverage: StorPool Review – Part 1 – Installation & Configuration
- Coverage: Making Money in Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
- Coverage: The Future of Commvault Is Metallic
- Coverage: The Rise, Fall and End of Violin Memory
- Coverage: Pure Storage Acquires Portworx
- Coverage: Pure Storage Announces FlashRecover
- Coverage: The Rationale Behind Nutanix Clusters
- Coverage: Dell PowerProtect Data Manager – A Missed Opportunity
- Coverage: VMware to Acquire Datrium
- Coverage: Dell Power and the Challenge of Modernisation
- Coverage: Managing Data Migration Challenges
- Coverage: Fixing the X86 Problem
- Coverage: Moving to Unstructured Data Stores
- Coverage: Managing Massive Media
- Coverage: NetApp Fabric Orchestrator and Hybrid Cloud
- Coverage: Can Infrascale Compete in the Enterprise Backup Market?
- Coverage: The Wisdom of the (Storage) Crowd
- Coverage: Scale Computing on the Edge With HE150
- Coverage: Stellus Delivers Scale-Out Storage With NVMe & KV Tech
- Coverage: Storage Management and DevOps
- Coverage: NetApp NKS and Hybrid Cloud
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 19 – Vendor Previews
- Coverage: Are ARM Processors Ready for Data Centre Primetime?
- Coverage: Liqid’s PCIe Fabric Is the Key to Composable Infrastructure
- Coverage: BONUS: The Origins of Tech Field Day – the On-Premise IT Roundtable
- Coverage: Pure Storage Cloud Block Store Goes GA
- Coverage: Commvault Announces Metallic SaaS Data Protection
- Coverage: Unpicking the Commvault Acquisition of Hedvig
- Coverage: FlashArray//X Gets Optane Acceleration With DirectMemory
- Coverage: Pure Storage FlashArray//C – First Impressions
- Coverage: VMware Project Pacific – First Impressions
- Coverage: Cohesity Looks to Exploit Secondary Data Value With MarketPlace
- Coverage: The HCI Definition Obsession
- Coverage: Cloud-Native Data Protection
- Coverage: Datrium Delivers Data Mobility With Automatrix
- Coverage: Thoughts on Transitioning to Dell EMC Midrange.NEXT
- Coverage: The Hidden Gem That Is StorPool
- Coverage: Rubrik, Cohesity and the Battle for NoSQL Backup
- Coverage: You’re Wrong About Data Protection Policy
- Coverage: Can the WekaIO Matrix File System Be Faster Than DAS?
- Coverage: #91 – Storage Field Day 18 in Review
- Coverage: VAST Data Launches With New Scale-Out Storage Platform
- Coverage: Exploiting Secondary Data With NDAS From NetApp
- Coverage: Podcast #3 – Chris & Matt Review the SFD18 Presenters
- Coverage: MAX Data: Optimising Application Performance With SCM
- Coverage: NetApp buys into Kubernetes Orchestration with StackPointCloud
- Coverage: Elastifile Cloud File Service Now Available on Google Cloud
- Coverage: Western Digital Redefines DRAM Caching
- Coverage: HDD Capacity Threshold Reaches 15TB
- Coverage: Scality Zenko Product Brief
- Coverage: Enterprise-Class Public Cloud
- Coverage: What Next for Violin Systems?
- Coverage: Pure Storage AIRI – CI for AI
- Coverage: Why Deterministic Storage Performance is Important
- Coverage: The Britpop Battle of Rubrik and Cohesity
- Coverage: PowerMax, VMAX, XtremIO – the Agony of Choice
- Coverage: NetApp embraces cloud for future business growth
- Coverage: Droplet Computing delivers universal app virtualization
- Coverage: The Three Facets of Backup
- Coverage: Cloud Field Day 3 Preview: Delphix
- Coverage: Cloud Field Day 3 Preview: Riverbed
- Coverage: Cloud Field Day 3 Preview: Veritas
- Coverage: Cloud Field Day 3 Preview: Druva
- Coverage: Cloud Field Day 3 Preview: Morpheus Data
- Coverage: Cloud Field Day 3 Preview: Oracle
- Coverage: Dude, Here’s Your 100TB Flash Drive!
- Coverage: Cloud Field Day 3 Preview: Rubrik
- Coverage: Cloud Field Day 3 Preview: NetApp
- Coverage: The Risk of Shared Service Level Agreements
- Coverage: ScaleIO Becomes Software Defined on Hardware
- Coverage: Data Mobility – Global/Scale-out Data Platforms
- Coverage: Rubrik Acquires Datos IO – Backup Wars Looming?
- Coverage: What are Storage Class Memory and Persistent Memory?
- Coverage: What Next for XtremIO?
- Coverage: Kaminario Goes Software-Defined
- Coverage: Data Mobility – Caching Technologies
- Coverage: Object Storage Critical Capabilities #3 – Searching, Indexing and Metadata
- Coverage: Avere Systems is Acquired by Microsoft
- Coverage: Performance Analysis of SAS/SATA and NVMe SSDs
- Coverage: Has NVMe Killed off NVDIMM?
- Coverage: Four Platforms When One Will Do?
- Coverage: Is NetApp Becoming A Service Provider?
- Coverage: HPE Brings Nimble Skynet to 3PAR Arrays
- Coverage: Accelerating Workloads with NetApp Plexistor
- Coverage: VMAX – The Mainframe of Storage
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 14 Preview: E8 Storage
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 14 Preview: Scality
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 14 Preview: EMC
- Coverage: Can Violin Systems Successfully Rise from the Ashes of Violin Memory?
- Coverage: It’s Time for Hard Drives to Join Tape In The Archive Tier
- Coverage: Scale Computing Debuts HC3 in Google Cloud Platform
- Coverage: Flash Diversity: High Capacity Drives from Nimbus and Micron
- Coverage: Architecting IT | Scale Computing Moves Deeper Into the Enterprise With All-Flash HCI
- Coverage: Pure1 META – Analytics for Pure Storage Arrays
- Coverage: Pure Accelerate: FlashArray Gets Synchronous Replication
- Coverage: What Next for the new Tier 0 Storage?
- Coverage: Nimble, HPE and 20-Year Old Architectures
- Coverage: Building Data Storage With Containers
- Coverage: Focus on High Performance NAS
- Coverage: Cache or Tier – Does it Matter?
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 11 Previews: Intel, HGST
- Coverage: NetApp, Storage Class Memory and Hyperconvergence
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 11 Previews: Avere, Primary Data, Scality
- Coverage: Nutanix Acquires PernixData and Calm.io
- Coverage: Docker and storage – solving the problem of data persistence
- Coverage: Windows Containers – Making Windows Server Relevant Again
- Coverage: Docker for Mac & Windows – Changing the Developer Paradigm
- Coverage: Docker & Storage – Solving The Problem of Data Persistence
- Coverage: Torus – Because We Need Another Distributed Storage Software Solution
- Coverage: Object Storage: Validating S3 Compatibility
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Hedvig
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Primary Data
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Exablox
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Nimble Storage
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Datera
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Tintri
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Pure Storage
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Kaminario
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 10 Preview: Cloudian
- Coverage: Long Term Evaluation: Scale Computing
- Coverage: Hybrid Cloud and Data Mobility
- Coverage: Pure //Accelerate 2016 – FlashBlade
- Coverage: Build or Buy – A Tale of Two All-Flash Strategies
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 9 Tracking Page
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 9 Preview: VMware
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 9 Preview: Intel
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 9 Preview: Violin Memory
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 9 Preview: NetApp
- Coverage: Speaking in Tech: How good is the UK’s broadband? Really awful
- Coverage: Tech Field Day 10 Preview: Dell
- Coverage: Tech Field Day 10 Preview: Rubrik
- Coverage: Tech Field Day 10 Preview: SolarWinds
- Coverage: Tech Field Day 10 Preview: Caringo
- Coverage: Tech Field Day 10 Preview: VMTurbo
- Coverage: Tech Field Day 10 Preview: Diablo Technologies
- Coverage: ZeroStack – A Better Way to do OpenStack
- Coverage: The Evolution of Storage Virtualisation
- Coverage: Standard SSDs or Custom NAND Modules?
- Coverage: Pure Storage Announces New Hardware Platform – FlashArray//m
- Coverage: SFD7: Exablox – Scale-Out Object Storage for NAS
- Coverage: Primary Data and Data Virtualisation
- Coverage: Connected Data, Transporter and Private “Cloud” Storage
- Coverage: Catalogic Software Addresses Data Copy Management
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 7 – Initial Thoughts
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 7 – 11-13 March 2015
- Coverage: Avere Systems Releases Virtual FXT Edge Filer
- Coverage: VMware Previews VAIO – vSphere APIs for I/O Filtering
- Coverage: SanDisk Announces Acquisition of Fusion-io
- Coverage: Flash Shipment Bragging Rights
- Coverage: Pure Storage Raises a Further $225m for a $3B Valuation
- Coverage: SolidFire Releases Element OS Version 6
- Coverage: SDDC Symposium 2014
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 5 – Scale Computing Present
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 5: Vendor Profiles Part 2
- Coverage: Storage Field Day 5 Vendor Preview
- Coverage: Storage IPO Season – Violin Memory and Pure Storage
- Coverage: Travel in April: Storage Field Day
- Coverage: Solid State Storage Symposium – Cache or Tier Panel Discussion
- Coverage: Storage Old, New and Past Due? (Updated)
- Coverage: Dell Allegedly Bid for Fusion-IO
- Coverage: Solid State Storage Symposium 25th April 2012
- Coverage: Storage Field Day – 26th & 27th April 2012
- Coverage: Next Generation Storage Symposium – 7th November 2012
- Coverage: August Storage Announcements – Pure Storage