tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107939622024-03-16T19:52:07.105+01:00File Storage Technologies (FST)Dédié aux Technologies de Stockage Fichier ou File Storage, ce Blog couvre essentiellement les approches liées aux systèmes de fichiers disques et réseaux. Il aborde certaines avancées récentes ou émergentes autour du cluster NAS, de l'agrégation et de la virtualisation mais aussi les modes cluster, SAN, distribués, dispersés et parallèles. Bien sûr, le contenu de ce blog reflète uniquement mon avis personnel...Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.comBlogger1467125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-90893110864767112102024-02-28T19:10:00.001+01:002024-03-03T19:59:06.488+01:0054th edition of The IT Press Tour in Colorado and California very soon nowIn a few days, The IT Press Tour will operate its 54th edition, this on will take place in Colorado and California with an amazing program in perspective. This tour will be dedicated to IT infrastructure, cloud, networking, data management and storage with 10 leaders and innovative US companies:Arcitecta, a pioneer in data management,BMC Software, a reference in IT operations,Cohesity, Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-73914070288833239342024-02-15T19:11:00.082+01:002024-03-03T19:41:48.248+01:00Recap of the 53rd edition of The IT Press TourInitially posted on StorageNewsletter 12/2/2024The 53rd edition of The IT Press Tour took place in San Francisco, CA, and the bay area end of January and it was the right opportunity to meet and visit 9 companies all playing in IT infrastructure, cloud, networking, data management and storage plus AI. All inspiring executives, leaders and innovators shared their views on the current Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-86616239564044934242024-01-30T10:38:00.011+01:002024-02-01T11:45:39.367+01:00Graid expands towards desktop and edge serversGraid Technology, the reference in modern RAID controller, recently participated to The IT Press Tour to announce its new board, the SupremeRAID SR-1001. Graid targets the NVMe SSD domain growing as a rapid pace globally in any storage segments , primary and secondary storage but also on servers or workstations direct attached storage. And with this ubiquitous presence of NVMe is transversal to Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-15519154573308509522023-12-14T08:44:00.210+01:002023-12-16T18:07:20.228+01:00Tiger accelerates on vertical marketsTiger Technology, a reference in hybrid file storage with a strong Windows expertise, has participated for the 3rd time to The IT Press Tour a few days ago, this time organized in Madrid, Spain. It was the right opportunity to meet again Alex Lefterov, CEO and founder, to get a company and product update.Alex's team has recognized the need to augment its market footprint in some vertical Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-74608010121204492482023-12-12T15:54:00.063+01:002023-12-26T16:20:51.517+01:00DataCore offers deep block tieringDataCore, a leader in SDS with its famous block storage virtualization, joined the recent IT Press Tour organized in Madrid, Spain. The team took advantage of its 5th participation to update the group with company news and also share directions regarding SANsymphony.The coming V10 PSP17 will deliver several key features, both as enhancements, improvements and new functions. Among them, the Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-40311269011929575162023-12-07T15:36:00.041+01:002023-12-29T09:53:58.783+01:00Quantum Myriad is GAQuantum, the champion of secondary storage, has made Myriad generally available for its 1.0 release, representing a major step in such solution following StorNext impact on the industry. During an intense early access program, users and partners had the opportunity ot test and stress Myriad and results are really positive insisting on the simplicity of the deployment and operations of the clusterPhilippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-35132513991731158292023-12-05T13:57:00.001+01:002023-12-26T14:02:44.348+01:00Volumez signs with AnodotVolumez, a emerging block SDS vendor, has signed with Anodot to offer its storage infrastructure service. The AI based Finops company will couple its PostgreSQL database service on AWS with the persistent block storage engine to boost performance at a very optimized cost.Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-82162381122206504602023-12-04T08:32:00.003+01:002023-12-26T14:45:06.045+01:00New 9920 from HuaweiHuawei, the global leader in IT infrastructure, refreshed its 9920 Pacific model. This new iteration integrates 25 NVMe SSDs of 30.72TB delivering 768TB raw in 2U. A minimum of 3 nodes is needed for production, data protection is based on Reed Solomon erasure coding (EC) horizontally configured across chassis for a maximum of 24 chunks. The team has designed EC with 22+2 or 20_4 i.e maximum of 4 Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-51101234197429866682023-11-30T09:47:00.002+01:002023-12-26T13:51:37.716+01:00Volumez now on AWSVolumez, a young block SDS coupled with cloud service, is now available on AWS in additiopn to Microsoft Azure.Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-18926584792382490482023-11-28T08:18:00.001+01:002023-11-28T08:40:16.315+01:00The IT Press Tour will rock again soon in Madrid for its 52nd editionJust a few more days and The IT Press Tour will land in Madrid, Spain, for its 52nd edition scheduled December 5 & 6. This tour will be dedicated to IT infrastructure, cloud, networking, data management and storage with a mix of 6 innovative European and US companies:DataCore, global leader in SDS,Disk Archive, established secondary storage player,Inspeere, an innovative P2P backup actorPhilippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-82491313046848422732023-11-22T10:43:00.010+01:002023-12-26T13:46:45.328+01:00Volumez available on AzureVolumez, a recent player in cloud storage infrastructure, is now available on Microsoft Azure.Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-25488119416589503902023-11-21T10:46:00.162+01:002024-01-16T17:07:52.222+01:00Hammerspace promotes pNFS for AI workloadsHammerspace, a fast growing file storage company dedicated to U3 files accesses, just published an interesting reference architecture for AI workloads. U3 refers to the acronym and the model I introduced more than years ago in a famous (french) blogpost and it means Universal, Unified and Ubiquitous.As the most active promoter of pNFS, Hammerspace illustrates a new use case where the NFS Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-65291709368250263812023-11-16T14:03:00.021+01:002024-01-15T14:00:58.286+01:00Graid validated with ThinkParQ BeeGFSGraid Technology, the leader in GPU-based RAID approach, signs with ThinkParQ, developer of parallel file storage BeeGFS, to offer high performance storage clusters powered by SupremeRAID. It will give to users a new level of quality of service for BeeGFS users putting a huge gap with software-based RAID.Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-54970687793269145822023-11-09T11:20:00.000+01:002023-12-26T14:28:03.145+01:00WANdisco becomes CirataWANDisco, a UK software vendor, renamed itself Cirata and tried to mask a financial scandal creates by its own sales team. Beyond respectable product and solutions such past way to work invite people to have doubt about the future. In finance, we say when you have a doubt, don't do it, it hides something...Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-56041944350563667622023-11-07T14:05:00.036+01:002024-01-15T14:01:53.246+01:00Graid kills RAID gadgetGraid Technology, a reference in RAID based data protection, published recently a study to compare their solution with a company who promotes a software RAID approach. This is a mistake made by Graid management as they invite the competitor to their level. There is no comparison at all and even if the other player develops an interesting software, it appears to play in a different category being Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-76583727869034642952023-10-17T09:41:00.035+02:002023-12-29T10:05:42.858+01:00Quantum and Tiger Surveillance join forcesQuantum and Tiger Surveillance, two leading data management and storage companies, have signed a partnership to address growing needs in video surveillance. The idea is to couple products from both companies to offer a leading long-term retention and archiving of video surveillance data. Quantum products capture and store data then tier and archive via Tiger Bridge on any cloud, private with Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-74608036401396506982023-10-12T15:16:00.032+02:002023-12-26T15:28:30.747+01:00CTera adds S3 access to NASCTera Networks, known for its innovative file storage services, and awarded multiple times by Coldago Research, just announced a key iteration for its product with CTera Fusion.This development represents a major step forward unifying file and object access in fact adding S3 to SMB and NFS serving same content. Having introduced this need as a paramount need 10 years ago, companies added Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-26949482286320361152023-10-05T12:33:00.024+02:002023-12-26T12:40:37.750+01:00Volumez recruits its CROVolumez, an emerging player in cloud-based block SDS, just announced the recruitment of Jason McKinney as its chief revenue officer. His strong experience should help Volumez but I'll see if it will work as the company is a small one not installed yet on the market, trying to disrupt the storage segment and McKinney has collaborated at established players.Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-47588383180708138542023-09-28T15:29:00.026+02:002023-12-26T16:39:25.639+01:00Qumulo expands its partnership with FujitsuQumulo, a leader in file data storage according to Coldago Research, expands its partnership with Fujitsu. Signed 3 years ago to address EMEA end-users needs, Fujitsu confirmed its interest in the product and technology coupled with its last Primergy M7 machine. The idea is to promote a full NVMe flash solution at a HDD price.Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-39775823060944221662023-09-12T10:09:00.029+02:002024-01-15T14:04:33.780+01:00Graid unveiled version 1.5 of its SupremeRAID softwareGraid Technology, the reference in GPU-based RAID, introduces a new iteration of its software with the version 1.5. This new release leverages PCIe Gen 5 to maximize performance for its SupremeRAID SR-1000 and SR-1010 touching 28M IOPS for 4k random read, 2M random write, a very big gap in fact, 260GBps for 1M sequential read and 100GBps for write. It offers support Drive Group moving from 4 to 8Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-55556006072445037722023-08-24T13:01:00.043+02:002023-12-17T13:13:36.060+01:00New storage services from NyriadNyriad, a storage innovator developing a disk array powered by a GPU-based erasure coding controllers, announced a partnership with RackTop file file storage services. The company's array product, named UltraIO, is a block device plugged to BrickStor SP layer for SMB and NFS.The combined solution provides a dual security at the file level for RackTop granting a blocking access and block level forPhilippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-11173946226163423432023-08-17T12:39:00.083+02:002023-09-02T19:01:36.042+02:00Recap of Flash Memory Summit 2023Originally posted on StorageNewsletter Aug. 14, 2023Flash Memory Summit 2023, aka FMS, just took place at the classic Santa Clara convention center in Santa Clara, CA, and it was, once again, the right opportunity to take a snapshot of the flash and memory industry with several key players and a comprehensive lists of keynotes and break-out sessions. The event is really the annual rendez-vous of Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-31780443174974251382023-08-08T11:55:00.034+02:002023-09-02T18:17:20.057+02:00Recap of the 51st edition of The IT Press TourInitially posted on StorageNewsletter Aug. 2, 2023 The 51st edition of The IT Press Tour took place end of June in Berlin, Germany, and I invited 6 European companies to participate covering cloud, IT infrastructure, data management and storage: Croit, CunoFS by PetaGene, Insurgo, Simplyblock, Tuxera and Yuzuy.CroitFounded in 2017, the company identified a real need Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-32224609349686165962023-07-13T11:50:00.002+02:002023-08-01T10:25:51.828+02:00SimplyBlock to shake the SDS landscapeSimplyBlock, founded in 2022 in Berlin by Michael Schmidt and Rob Pankow, was one of the good surprises during the recent IT Press Tour organized end of June in Berlin.
The young company develops a block SDS in the first release and should add file and object interfaces later.
They target expensive configurations usually covered by hardware solutions and wish to appear as a universal solution forPhilippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10793962.post-20316627311830613702023-07-11T08:44:00.002+02:002023-07-24T08:51:10.061+02:00Croit delivers strong services for Ceph and DAOSCroit was founded in 2017 to surf on Ceph success and participates to its adoption. I invited Croit to join the recent IT Press Tour in Berlin end of June. The team truly believes in open source and has a significant Ceph experience with today 23 employees plus a presence in 10 countries over 5 continents. Croit is a founding member of the Ceph Foundation and a member of the Linux Foundation. Philippe NICOLAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11806917852716615687noreply@blogger.com0