With all the talk about edge computing lately, including our forthcoming Edge Field Day event, Chris Evans takes a look at the space. Recalling Field Day presentations by Dell and Scale Computing, Chris considers the hardware, software, application, and data requirements for edge deployment. Learn more by reading his article as well as the recent posts by Stephen Foskett at Gestalt IT, and tune in for Edge Field Day in February!
Measuring Sustainability in Enterprise Storage
Max Mortillaro attended the latest Storage Field Day as a virtual delegate and provided his thoughts on Pure Storage’s presentation of their ESG report covering the company’s sustainability policy. You can watch Pure Storage’s presentation and all of the presentations from the Storage Field Day event on the Tech Field Day website!
Weka 4 – The Data Platform?
Chris Evans gives his opinion on WEKA’s latest release of WEKA 4. Described as a “data platform”, check out what Chris has to say about the next iteration of this product and how it fits into the data management category. You can find his thoughts, and all the videos from Cloud Field Day, on the Tech Field Day website.
StorPool Introduces NVMe/TCP and Public Cloud Support With Release 20
Check out what Chris Evans has to say about NetApp and the enhancements of the StorPool platform, particularly with the capability to span on-premises and the public cloud. You can check out his thoughts following Cloud Field Day on his website, Architecting IT, and you can catch all of the videos from Cloud Field Day on the Tech Field Day website!
Predicting the Future of Technology Influencers
Take a look here at Chris Evans’ blog on the future of technical influencers! He goes into detail on events of 2022, being on-site versus remote, and how the pandemic has affected the IT industry.
Optimising Kubernetes With StormForge
At this past Cloud Field Day, StormForge presented two solutions to optimize for range of metrics, including cost and performance. In this post from Chris Evans, he digs into the requirement for the technology and how it might evolve. Take a look at his thoughts here!
NetApp – Transformation, Bifurcation or Re-Invention?
Chris Evans, a Field Day delegate, attended this past Cloud Field Day where NetApp presented on using cloud native services to build a hybrid cloud and discussed the purchase of a start-up company. Chris’ question still remains if this is a transformation, bifurcation or re-invention for NetApp. Check out his thoughts here.
Kubernetes Clusters – Pets or Cattle?
Chris Evan attended this past Cloud Field Day as a delegate. He was particularly intrigued by the team from Kasten by Veeam. Kasten demonstrated the ability to use Hashicorp Vault for key management of the K10 platform and to use Grafana for visualization. Check our Chris’ thoughts here!
VMworld 2021 – Bringing It All Together With Project Ensemble
On his personal site, Architecting IT.com, Chris Evans writes his takeaways from VMware’s VMworld 2021. Specifically, he compares VMware’s Project Ensemble, displayed at the event, to other products such as those presented at a past Cloud Field Day event by Morpheus Data, in a past Tech Field Day appearance by Platform9, and the products displayed by ZeroStack during a Virtualization Field Day event, which he attended at as a delegate. Click the link below for more context behind these comparisons.
StorPool Review – Part 1 – Installation & Configuration
While attending Storage Field Day in 2019 as a delegate, Chris Evans had the chance to see StorPool present and was impressed with the their software. Chris just wrote the first part of a deep dive on StorPool and “how the distributed storage architecture works, how it performs and how it integrates into an on-premises public cloud strategy.” In Part 1, he takes an in-depth look into the underlying architecture and the concepts of the software as a whole. Be sure to check out the deep dive from Chris as well as the videos from StorPool’s multiple presentations on our website!
Making Money in Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Chris Evans joined us as a delegate at Tech Field Day in 2011, where he saw Nutanix, and in 2019, where he saw Scale Computing. In this post for Architecting IT, Chris analyzes the benefits and advancements of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), looking at Scale Computing’s growth and noting Nutanix’s success. For more of his thoughts, check out this blog!
The Future of Commvault Is Metallic
Chris Evans was a delegate at Tech Field Day Exclusive at Commvault GO 2019 and had the chance to see Commvault launch their Metallic platform. With Commvault’s announcement earlier this year of a significant expansion of Metallic, Chris has some thoughts on their transition and path forward. Writing for Architecting IT, Chris reviews the history of the product and says that the future of Commvault is completely intertwined with the success of the Metallic platform. Check out the post from Chris as well as the videos from Tech Field Day Exclusive Commvault Go 2019 on our website!
The Rise, Fall and End of Violin Memory
What happened to Violin Memory? The company was once a pioneer in the flash storage market but failed to adapt to the moving marketplace. Teo CEO changes later, and the company has just been sold to StorCentric. How did Violin go from boom to bust in just a few short years? Tech Field Day delegate Chris Evans takes a look at Violin’d story.
Pure Storage Acquires Portworx
There’s big news in the storage world this week as Pure Storage announces they are acquiring Portworx. Writing for Architecting IT, Chris Evans notes that he had the chance to see the CTO of Portworx present in another capacity at the very first Tech Field Day event in 2009. Chris writes that Pure Storage has made a significant move that will help them expand options for their customers. Pure Storage clearly has a long-term strategy planned out, and it will be interesting to see what they decide to do next.
Pure Storage Announces FlashRecover
Chris Evans, a frequent delegate at our Tech Field Day events, writes about the partnership between Pure Storage and Cohesity on the new FlashRecover solution. Chris analyzes and reviews the design for the new system as well as the implications for consumers. Be sure to give his analysis a read and take a look at the past Pure Storage and Cohesity Storage Field Day presentations on our website!
The Rationale Behind Nutanix Clusters
Chris Evans has been following Nutanix closely since he saw them present at Tech Field Day back in 2011. He has been impressed with how they have evolved and developed the Nutanix Cloud Platform over the years. Chris writes about their newly announced Nutanix Clusters and considers how the new offering compares to other trends and products currently available.
Dell PowerProtect Data Manager – A Missed Opportunity
Chris Evans got to hear a lot about Dell PowerProtect Data Manager at Tech Field Day Presents Dell Technologies: Power Up the Portfolio. This included a demo of the data protection solution, and an architectural deep dive. For Ethan, this product represents that careful line that Dell EMC has to tread, trying to both serve the thousands of customers it acquired with the EMC merger, while addressing modern data protection needs of new customers. PPDM is designed to cater more to the former in Ethan’s eyes. Going forward, he’s looking forward to getting a better understanding of Dell EMC’s overall data protection roadmap and learning how they protect cloud and SaaS-based apps as well.
VMware to Acquire Datrium
For Chris Evans, VMware’s approach to disaster recovery had seemed to take a pretty old school approach of emulating array-based replication, based on what he saw at Cloud Field Day earlier this year. This left a potential gap in their approach, that seems to have been filled by their recently announced acquisition of Datrium. This now gives VMware a modern DR solution that stands up to competing offerings, and adds a data mobility solution that extends out of the private data center and allows data migrations between public clouds.
Dell Power and the Challenge of Modernisation
In this post, Chris Evans looks at Dell EMC’s new storage portfolio, something they detailed during their Tech Field Day Presents Dell Technologies: Power Up the Portfolio presentations. For Chris, it’s interesting to see the company moving on from it’s existing offerings, many of which have been around for decades, and come from the acquisition of EMC in 2016. The company has done a good job updating these solutions, but Chris sees consolidation and a clear roadmap as the key to their storage future. Both of these were on display at the event.
