The Case for Tiered Storage in Private Clouds
Fall of last year I wrote a controversial whitepaper detailing my concerns about how distributed storage was being marketed. The blog introduction and the whitepaper were both entitled Converged Storage, Wishful Thinking, and Reality. There was a certain amount of expected blowback from folks at RedHat and Ceph as well as more thoughtful replies from […]
SolidFire Picks up $25M Funding Round
Big news in the solid state drive world today sees SolidFire announcing a USD25M funding round. I’ve written about SolidFire previously and took the opportunity at Structure earlier this year to spend time talking to their founder and CEO, Dave Wright (see below). SolidFire is a company that aims to bring the performance of SSDs […]
The Future Of BI In The Cloud
Actual numbers vary based on whom you ask, but the general consensus is that the Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics in the cloud is a fast growing market. IDC expects a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.4% through 2013. This growth is pr…
