Software-defined storage (SDS) is about data services. Many think it is about automating storage. Yes, I can see that, but it is about what storage can deliver. So, what is the basis for SDS? There are four critical components. These components are analytics, augmentation, aggregation, and security. These four elements wrap storage to become data …
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Has anyone else taken notice of that little storm brewing in the Caribbean? At every update the path of the little storm keeps drifting west almost as if the storm really wants to go to Disney World. All kidding aside, Hurricane Matthew is, at the time of this writing, a category 4 hurricane based on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale with the maximum sustained winds of one hundred forty-five mile an hour winds. The storm is currently heading over Haiti and moving towards the Bahamas while leaving a death and a lot of destruction in its wake.
In this, the sixth post in this series, our hero is tasked with moving into the cloud. Once again, Vembu comes to the rescue.
With the curse of the even year, VMworld is hitting me again. I have to unfortunately sit this one out, so it is with a little bit of sadness that I do this rundown of the day one keynote by Pat Gelsinger, VMware’s CEO. This year’s VMworld keynote started with the usual razzmatazz, but soon settled down. …
It is time for a hypervisor change, and as a result of your previous successes, you are now the goto-person for all things infrastructure at your company. So, pants outside your trousers again, armed with Vembu, it’s back to action.
Ransomware is a major concern these days. In many cases, it is a nightmare once it hits, and not just for desktops, but also for servers. Think about it: how would your brand-new analytics package fare if all of the disk data were encrypted by ransomware? Desktops may be the way in, but the deeper into the …
