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Is Pure Play Storage good?
I post storage and cloud related articles to my unofficial SNIA Malaysia Facebook community (you are welcomed to join) every day. It is a community I started over 9 years ago, and there are active live...
View ArticleFrom the past to the future
2019 beckons. The year 2018 is coming to a close and I look upon what I blogged in the past years to reflect what is the future. The evolution of the Data Services Platform Late 2017, I blogged about...
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The prudence needed for storage technology companies
Blitzscaling has been on my mind a lot. Ever since I discovered that word a while back, it has returned time and time again to fill my thoughts. In the wake of COVID-19, and in the mire of this...
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The hot cold times of HCI
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) is a hot technology. It has been for the past decade since Nutanix took the first mover advantage from the Converged Infrastructure (CI) technology segment and made...
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Is Software Defined right for Storage?
George Herbert Leigh Mallory, mountaineer extraordinaire, was once asked “Why did you want to climb Mount Everest?“, in which he replied “Because it’s there“. That retort demonstrated the indomitable...
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Don’t go to the Clouds. Come back!
Almost in tandem last week, Nutanix and HPE appeared to have made denigrated comments about Cloud First mandates of many organizations today. Nutanix took to the annual .NEXT conference to send the...
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Storage Elephant Compute Birds
Data movement is expensive. Not just costs, but also latency and resources as well. Thus there were many narratives to move compute closer to where the data is stored because moving compute is...
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Exploring the venerable NFS Ganesha
As TrueNAS® SCALE approaches its General Availability date in less than 10 days time, one of the technology pieces I am extremely excited about in TrueNAS® SCALE is the NFS Ganesha server. It is still...
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Nakivo Backup Replication architecture and installation on TrueNAS – Part 1
Backup and Replication software have received strong mandates in organizations with enterprise mindsets and vision. But lower down the rung, small medium organizations are less invested in backup and...
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Open Source on my mind
Last week was cropped with topics around Open Source software. I want to voice my opinions here (with a bit of ranting) and hoping not to rouse many abhorrent comments from different parties and views....
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