HPE today announced the acquisition of SimpliVity for $650m Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE) acquisition of SimpliVity has validated the hyper-converged market, according to channel onlookers. HPE today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement... Read the full story For more information contact us.
Cohesity offers hyper-converged solution for secondary storage, while vendors like Nutanix and SimpliVity focus solely on primary storage While the likes of Nutanix and recently acquired SimpliVity are stealing the headlines when it comes to hyper convergence, California-based start-up Cohesity is addressing an area of the market that is... Read the full story For more information contact us.
In today’s blog I wanted to run you through a typical customer conversation that I’m sure many of you are familiar with. Background: Bloxham Mill provide serviced office solutions to over 200 UK based companies. They offer a broad portfolio of services and wanted to expand their DC offering to provide an infrastructure service to their clients. The initial meeting between Ethos Technology and Bloxham Mill to identify their storage requirements started off as they often do: Me: “How much data loss can you (and/or your clients) tolerate during a DR?”Client: “Pretty much zero”Me: “What performance do you need?”Client: “Really fast to support some of the requirements, less fast for others”Me: “How much storage do you need?”Client: “A little bit to begin with but if things go well with the service, lots”Me: “What storage protocols do you need to support”Client: “Erm, all of them?”Me: “What’s your budget?”Client: Feels around pockets for...
To offer expanded data center infrastructure services to iSME customers Compuverde AB announced that it has enabled Bloxham Mill Business Centre, a provider of flexible and cost-effective alternatives to conventional offices, to offer expanded data center infrastructure services to its SME customers. Bloxham Mill needed a storage solution that would provide synchronous data replication between two discrete data center locations at a competitive cost and without the complexity that normally comes with it. The solution had to support virtual and bare-metal workloads; block, file and object protocols; and directory integration, as well as offer secure multi-tenancy. All of these requirements would typically mean multiple solutions from multiple vendors, like a combination of Isilon and Nutanix. But Compuverde's vNAS solution and hyper-converged infrastructure met all Bloxham Mill's needs in a unified storage fabric capable of spanning multiple data centers. Mirrored, distributed data: Compuverde can be deployed as a metro cluster, without additional...
Following on from my previous article on how Cohesity can help in legal IT and inspired by a similar article I read about the nightmares IT teams have within legal when asked for a file restore from backup! Whilst supporting legal firms I have restored my fair share of files, folders, emails, databases and many more data types across varied solutions and media. The anxiety builds quickly as this is normally requested by a PA but you are fully aware there is a Partner/Solicitor behind the request that requires the restore like yesterday; normally as part of a matter they are working on. Nine times out of ten the file has been deleted by the someone involved in the matter but this conversation will never be discussed! This is also a no go area when explaining the time it will take to request and receive the tapes from store, catalogue them,...
