Celebrating 10 Years of Pure Storage and Tech Field Day

Pure Storage has grown from a scrappy upstart to an established player in enterprise storage, and Gestalt IT and Tech Field Day were there the whole time. From their first Field Day appearance in 2011 to today’s Tech Talks and Exclusive Field Day events, we have grown together over 10 years.


Data Mobility – Global/Scale-out Data Platforms

Chris Evans published another post in his ongoing series about data mobility in hybrid cloud. In this post, he looks at Global NAS and other distributed storage solutions, and includes a consideration of how to deal with data consistency. Solutions from NooBaa, Qumulo, Weka, Elastifile, Hedvig and Datera are included in this overview.


Kaminario Goes Software-Defined

Kaminario, a presenter at the first Storage Field Day in 2012, recently announced they were getting out of providing hardware for their AFA solution. Instead they will provide the software to run on top of certified storage from Tech Data. Chris Evans looks at the implications for the greater trend of the software-defined data center. He particularly focuses comments from Kaminario’s CEO on trying to undercut AWS storage on pricing per gigabyte.


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.


Cloudian Announces HyperFile, Makes Object Better

If you’re interested in 840TB of object storage in 4RU with strict S3 compliance, than Cloudian’s new HyperStore 4000 appliance might be for you. Dan Frith got a look at it at Storage Field Day last month. He found the addition of “converged access” makes it interesting for anyone that needs support for file and object storage in the data center.


Cloudian Announces HyperStore 4000 – Gets Super Dense

Dan Frith offers his take on Cloudian’s HyperStore 4000. Dan sees it as an interesting product in object storage. Instead of focusing on being “cheap and deep”, Cloudian focused on making this a smarter kind of storage. This allows governments and business to have a greater ability to verify data locality and visibility. For organizations with very sensitive restrictions on locality, HyperStore 4000 seems designed with you in mind.


Making life a whole lot easier with Tintri VM-aware storage

Making life a whole lot easier with Tintri VM-aware storage


Bringing hyperscale operations to the masses with Datera

Bringing hyperscale operations to the masses with Datera


Squashing assumptions with Data Science

Squashing assumptions with Data Science


Datera Announces Integration With Google’s Kubernetes

Datera Announces Integration With Google’s Kubernetes


Pure Storage Flashblade is now available!

Pure Storage Flashblade is now available!


Hedvig storage system, Docker support & data protection that spans data centers

Hedvig storage system, Docker support & data protection that spans data centers


Datera: Elastic Data Fabric

Datera: Elastic Data Fabric


FlashBlade: custom hardware still makes sense

FlashBlade: custom hardware still makes sense


Data Virtualisation is More Than Just Migration for Primary Data

Data Virtualisation is More Than Just Migration for Primary Data


Storage Field Day 10 – Wrap-up and Link-o-rama

Storage Field Day 10 – Wrap-up and Link-o-rama


It’s Hedvig, not Hedwig

It’s Hedvig, not Hedwig


The Cool Thing About Datera Is Intent

The Cool Thing About Datera Is Intent


Exablox Isn’t Just Pretty Hardware

Exablox Isn’t Just Pretty Hardware


Exablox, bring your own disk storage

Exablox, bring your own disk storage