Posts by elan

Data centre down: Budget plane-ride mart Ryanair goes all in with AWS

point of sales

while putting some ms garbage into the aws bucket is not a bad idea at all

I ask myself when they start using the world largest pos - amazon.com

oĺeary is moving into the sixties isn t it ?

Confirmed: Oracle laid off 964 people from former Sun building

Re: I need new glasses..

....and here I am curious about the upcoming nvme storage/mem tech. x86 arch will at best be suboptimal compared to other processor architectures (sparc).

Unfortunately intel has such market power in the meantime - they will deliver optimised/specialised processors as well.

Still running in circles: what was j.schwartz role in those days ?

Nutanix, IBM hug each other in Power pity party

well, if you define cloud as big dc with a lot of hw etc - agreed. but thats , at least to my experience , not the case. companies are asking for the XaaS concept. they want to keep their data inhouse, keep their hands on....imagine having a phone number...please stay in the line....and your trucks are piling up...hey, you will need a pint or two in the evening.

rednut hat

not such a big deal for nutanix. kvm is already running on power systems. acropolis is more or less a customization plus adapted distributed file system. would be a nice niche in the hci market (btw: happy to see non-x86/64 processors alive like power,sparc. monoculture is never a good option).

remains the question of how to market, how to get nutanix to the real enterprise segment ?

You're only young but you're going to die: Farewell, all-flash startups

panta rhei

well - wishful thinking

- the big guys are in muddy waters

--- emc/dell => many questions about productlines

--- netapp => revenue horribly declining

--- HP(E) => no margins, (free hw delivery bc of lousy data reduction values)

if you look at the market share numbers "others" is the growth value in it.

yes, market consolidation will happen --- but not now.

Public enemies: Azure, Amazon, Google, Oracle, OpenStack, SoftLayer will murder private IT

its the economy.stupid.

- analysts just extrapolate the IT production function.

- advantages of the cloud compute model are already worked-in in new products

- the new generation of start-ups got the IP and get the same resources for their hw.

- remains a certain cost advantage for the bigX based on size, but not that big (10% ? )

- well, balancing that with the risk (for your enterprise IT) completely loosing control of your assets (data, operations) ....Hmmm....I would not prefer to have a seat in the board ...

- the cloud is an option, not more, not less

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BlackBerry axes 200 jobs – including a third of its HQ staff

-there is a market for keyboard smartphones

-there is a market for secure office extensions /mail/cal/messenger/payment/twitter/.../

-there is a market for non android a/o ios devices

-who will straighten the company up before its really to late ?

-what holds them back to get the job done ???

Tiering up: Our man struggles to make sense of the storage landscape

my 2cnts

- two kind of storage types will remain : local a/o remote

- decision differentiator is data security a/o latency

- san/nas/b2d will merge ( bad for netapp )

- bu/restore/archive will be a data service

- incumbents: ibm will leave the table, hp has nothing beyond 3par, netapp sinking ship

- remaining: emc (best management), hds (best engineers)

- new players: tegile / kaminario / oracle(not new but investing...)

- market will be divided by 4- 6 players , as it was 3y ago

- remote storage players (google/azur/aws/...) will collapse (=the next crash ) - one or two remain

HP HUMILIATED by Dell's EMC buy

DELLMC

well , not that complicated:

1) HW=DELL

2) SW=EMC (existing storage HW_products will evaporate in the all-flash/x86 jungle)

3) Leadership=MD

4) R&D=>VC based companies (interest rates=>captital owners=>VC=>invest in new stuff)

the sky is bright, not cloud..y ..

Diskicide – the death of disk

flash-disk-flash

the substitution process will be evolutionary and in most cases run by life cycle considerations.

VSI/VDI/OLTP/DSS clear thing. I am not so sure about backup/archive - media break as an insurance for your software defined storage (what are the flash solutions at the end of the day) is an argument---

I, for one, welcome the rise of the Infrastructure Endgame Machines

wind of change

Well, I would rename IEMs into IEMs -infrastructure enabling machines- ;-)

I agree certain jobs will diminish. But industrialization is the horse we all are riding on – let it run, dude.

Extrapolation forgets

-changing incentives for the involved parties over time

-the demand side of the equation

Taking into consideration the ongoing digitalisation of all our life/business sectors we are just in front of a new and big wave of IT services which couldn't be realized in old school infrastructure.

Will flash save the data centre? Don't spread your wings yet, Vultan

from innovation to progress

- all flash data centre - would save energy, right ?

- it consolidates storage arrays, no extra arrays for dev,qa etc because of the IOPS headroom

- you only need to address geo risk and media breakline redundancy

- a flash unit is at least !!! 3.3 times more cost effective to store tier1 data (av.data reduction factor 5, 1K$ per 1TB eMLC vs 650$ 15k 0.6TB HDD)

- economics and investment life cycle set the pace