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Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn November 29th, 2023, Quantum announced the general availability of a new solution, Myriad. Quantum boasts a comprehensive end-to-end portfolio of software solutions known to unlock the true value of data.  A company with a pedigree in storage, Quantum offers solutions ranging from archiving to file and object storage, each targeted at a particular set of uses cases. In all its solutions, data is the chief strategy and center of focus.  Some weeks ago I’ve got the opportunity to attend at the Quantum Tech Field Day Showcase and learn more about this innovative product.

Reading Time: 2 minutesA3 Technology Live! is a one-day event, organized by A3 Communications, where up to four vendors showcase their technologies in action to a group of technical journalists, bloggers and analysts. A combination of presentations and demos allows each company to present its solutions with a much higher level of detail than is usually possible in traditional briefings. A highly interactive day for all participants.  Each editions has 3-4 companies, usually storage related, presenting their vision and/or products.

Reading Time: 2 minutesSome years ago, I’ve published a post about the Hyperconverged infrastructure market share (2018)… but what about now? How HCI has grow? HCI has become a hot topic with several vendors that aim to be a leader in this area, or with several “magic quadrants” that try to define who is in.

Reading Time: 4 minutesPure Storage has been working with Veeam since 2017 to provide storage snapshot integrationleveraging Veeam’s Universal Storage Application Programming Interface (USAPI). With the release of Veeam Data Platform and Veeam Backup & Replication v12, Veeam hasadvanced the functionality of this API with USAPI v2. USAPI v2 includes the orchestrationof replicated snapshots and the ability to offload/archive storage snapshots in their nativesnapshot format to secondary storage for longer term retention. Pure Storage has beenVeeam’s development partner through the USAPI v2 development effort and is the first storagevendor with a software plugin able to take advantage of […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesPure Storage sees strong customer adoption of its Evergreen Subscription Services, surpassing $1B in ARR for the first time. Pure Storage announced continued growth of its subscription service offerings, including its Evergreen® portfolio, in addition to a new energy efficiency service level agreement (SLA) for Evergreen//One™. The introduction of the new SLA represents the first and only energy efficiency guarantee in the enterprise storage as a service market, and supports Pure Storage’s mission to provide customers with the most sustainable storage technology to meet their goals.

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe upgrade procedure for DellEMC PowerStore X from version 2.0 to version 2.1 is a little tricky. The Dell EMC PowerStore Software Upgrade Guide explains the steps, but still there are some issue that you should mange. Because you have also to upgrade the ESXi from 6.7 to 7.0, but before this, you need also to resize the VMFS datastore.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteDo you need to understand SAN and NAS storage? There are several resources available online, but I would like to suggest a free course by Neil Anderson.

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