A place for my thoughts…
I love trade shows! Now before you start thinking that’s an odd thing to say, let me explain why. I’ve been travelling a lot for the last couple of weeks which is why I haven’t spent much time updating my blog, I’ve been to a couple of trade shows and I have another to go to tomorrow, but why do[…]
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On my recent travels I had the great pleasure to record a Podcast with Nick Howell and Pete Flecha AKA “Datacenter Dude”, it was a lot of fun as well as being what I hope you would find to be an interesting conversation about how IT is evolving to meet the needs of the future of business. Here’s the link,[…]
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I hope the title of this blog post may have piqued your interest! I’ve spoken many times about how I predict the demise of Tier 1 storage due to the impact of All Flash Arrays, this is good for NetApp and here’s why… Whilst we power some of the most critical applications in the most critical environments across the world,[…]
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Schopenhauer was right, truth really does pass through three phases: First it is ridiculed. Second it is fiercely and violently opposed. Third, it becomes self-evident. One of the many great things about working in the IT industry, especially in storage is that we’re constantly having to evolve our technology to deal with data that’s growing faster than the capacity of[…]
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There are many very significant features that we’ve built into Clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT), these enable a fundamental change in the way companies build their storage infrastructures, but I’ve been trying to find my own way to describe just how significant it is. What does Seamless Scalability, Proven Efficiency and most importantly Non Disruptive Operations (NDO), which I feel is[…]
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I had a meeting a month or so back with an IT Director for one of the large banks in London, he’s always been a big fan of NetApp technology but is also very pragmatic about looking at all options when deciding on an Infrastructure. As with most companies I meet they are heavily invested into virtualisation, in this case[…]
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Thanks for all the votes and comments, it’s obvious that some of you have strong opinions on this, so I should explain that I deliberately worded the question in the way that I did because I wanted to provoke a reaction. Here’s how the voting went… 87% of you think that Data is the new Utility 13% of you don’t[…]
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I had a conversation with a Professor from Cambridge University during a flight back to the UK a while ago, he was a specialist in the energy sector and following our chat it really got me thinking about the similarities between the traditional utilities that we use and Data. Oh yeah and before anyone picks up on it, there are[…]
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No video this time! I felt this one would be easier to write down, be warned it is a long one, you may want to get that cup of coffee first! Over the last 5 or so years I’ve worked at NetApp there’s been a constant theme to my presentations, they all focus on the value that ONTAP delivers upwards,[…]
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I always enjoy the end of a year and the beginning of a new one, it’s one of the few opportunities where I get to take a little time to get all of the ‘stuff’ that’s in my head and try to assemble it into something that maybe people might find useful. In the first few weeks of this year[…]
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