Question: What do you get when Pure Storage gets to build a system that can start small, grow big, handle file requests quickly and is simple to manage?
FlashBlade: Pure’s newest addition to its hardware portfolio. The Pure Storage FlashBlade is not just another NAS filer. It’s an all-flash, scale-out storage for file (NFSv3 for now) and object (soon), delivering some pretty good performance as you can see in the sheet above. And the chassis just looks sexy…
If you want to build a private S3 object store, Cloudian HyperStore might be the product for you. Using commodity servers to form a scale-out architecture, you can build your own, fully S3 compliant object storage that’s located in your own datacenter. If you don’t want to supply your own servers, you can opt for the Lenovo Storage DX8200C appliance, powered by Cloudian!
Primary Data unveiled there DataSphere product at VMworld US back in August 2015. With DataSphere, Primary Data virtualizes the different types of storages in the datacenter, creating a global dataspace and breaking down the traditional silos of storage. It attempts to do for storage what VMware did for computing: any piece of data can reside on any storage, movable at any time, without interruption. In essence, increasing data mobility by decoupling the logical storage from the physical hardware. The team gave us an update on their product at Storage Field Day 10, so here goes!
Kaminario presented about there all-flash array back at Storage Field Day 7. Back then, I have to admit I wasn’t too impressed: it felt like just another all-flash array with few differentiating factors. For me, that changed after their presentation at Storage Field Day 10. The two components they’ll be adding are a policy based QoS system and a cloud based monitoring system called Healthshield. Both should help simplify storage management and look beyond merely the storage array itself. But first, a quick recap on Kaminario: who are they and what do they do?
In a couple of hours I’ll be airborne again heading west towards Silicon Valley. This time it’s for Storage Field Day 10 or #SFD10 on the Twitters. It’s the usual recipe: 12 delegates from around the world and 9 companies (start-ups and established companies alike) explaining their vision on the storage market and how their products work. I love these events because in three days time we’ll be bombarded with a whole lot of information on existing and upcoming storage tech. In my mind, there’s no other event with this information density: afterwards it usually takes a couple of days to let it all trickle through. Or as we say in Dutch, “make cheese out of it”… (of course it’s about cheese)