Challenging the Dell/HPE Duopoly with Storage Spaces Direct
I've recently spent a fair amount of time looking at hyperconverged solutions based on Windows Server 2016's Storage Spaces Direct - aka S2D. To quote Microsoft, »
HPE, Simplivity, FPGAs and VM Contagion
HPE's announcement that they have agreed to acquire Simplivity has filled a fair few column inches today. On paper it looks like a good move to »
Maxta - A Follow Up
On the 12th of October I published a post about my experience with hyperconverged storage company Maxta. The blog was an honest reflection on what turned »
Maxta - A Cautionary Tale of Hyperconverged Storage Gone Wrong
In my recent post, Pitfalls of Hyperconverged Storage, I mentioned that I had enjoyed some great successes with hyperconvergence, but also some spectacular failures. My experience »
Pitfalls of Hyperconverged Storage
If you look beyond the traditional monolithic storage arrays that dominated the storage market for decades, there are some very interesting things going one. One of »