22 08, 2023

VMware Cloud on AWS: VPC Peering Enables Cost-Efficient External Storage

By |2023-08-22T15:05:19+01:00August 22nd, 2023|NetApp, VMware, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Explore|0 Comments

Since its release, a constant stream of features and innovations has kept VMware Cloud on AWS ahead in terms of the flexibility of architecture and the range of design choices it provides to its customers. However, storage is an area where VMware Cloud on AWS has seen the most enhancements, from capability, performance, and cost [...]

30 08, 2022

VMware Explore 2022: What’s New in vSAN 8 – My Picks

By |2022-08-30T14:08:12+01:00August 30th, 2022|Storage, VMware, VMware Explore, VSAN, vSphere|0 Comments

vSAN has come a long way since it was first introduced and has been serving millions of environments worldwide. However, since its introduction, disk technologies and the transport mechanisms that power them, have all changed dramatically in their architecture, capabilities, capacity, and speed. The availability of such devices and the need for performance for demanding [...]

29 03, 2022

VMware Cloud Flex Storage: Scalable and Cost-Effective External Storage for VMware Cloud on AWS

By |2023-01-23T15:30:46+00:00March 29th, 2022|Storage, VMware Cloud on AWS, vSphere|0 Comments

Storage has always been a difficult subject for VMware Cloud on AWS. While the default vSAN storage is highly performant and well-engineered, it is not the most cost-effective option. The only way to scale is to add or remove hosts. Doing so is seamless but it is a rigid amount without any choice available in [...]

21 10, 2019

LucidLink Filespaces: It’s Object Storage But Not As You Know It

By |2019-10-21T17:23:23+01:00October 21st, 2019|Cloud, Cloud Field Day, Storage, Tech Field Day|0 Comments

Object storage is plentiful, durable and cheap. That makes it the ideal storage mechanism for long-term or archive storage. In fact, it's so cost-efficient that many traditional storage appliances, primarily targetted at on-premises environments, also make use of object-based storage to achieve cost-efficiencies. With all this data stored on object storage and on a cloud [...]

25 06, 2019

Tech Field Day (#TFD19): A Heads-Up

By |2019-06-25T16:21:07+01:00June 25th, 2019|Cloud, Storage, Tech Field Day|0 Comments

I am honoured to be invited to attend Tech Field Day 19 this week. For those who don't know, Tech Field Day is a set of events hosted by Stephen Foskett and his team, where technology vendors get together with techies/bloggers/engineers of their field and have focussed discussions around their products and why they've produced the best [...]

21 08, 2018

SoftNAS Cloud: Cloud Unlocker Storage?

By |2018-08-28T21:49:43+01:00August 21st, 2018|Cloud, Cloud Field Day, Storage, Strategy, Tech Field Day|2 Comments

SoftNAS Cloud is the flagship product that was presented at Cloud Field Day 4 by SoftNAS Inc. According to them, SoftNAS Cloud is a "data control and management" platform which enables companies to move their applications to the public cloud quickly. In doing so, they claim to have flexible solutions, ultra-fast transfer speeds and aim [...]

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