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Commvault big bet

By cfheoh | September 12, 2019 - 9:03 pm |September 12, 2019 Acquisition, Analytics, API, Appliance, Big Data, Business Continuity, Cisco, Cloud, Cohesity, Commvault, Data Archiving, Data Availability, Data Corruption, Data Fabric, Data Management, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Data Security, Deep Learning, Digital Transformation, Filesystems, Hadoop, Hadoop Clusters, Hedvig, Hitachi Vantara, Hyperconvergence, ILM, Infrascale, Machine Learning, MapReduce, Minio, NAS, NetApp, Object Storage, Scale-out architecture, Software Defined Storage, Software-defined Datacenter, Storage Field Day, Storage Tiering, Tape storage, Tech Field Day, Unified Storage, Veeam, Veritas, Zerto

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I woke up at 2.59am in the morning of Sept 5th morning, a bit discombobulated and quickly jumped into the Commvault call. The damn alarm rang and I slept through it, but I got up just in time for the 3am call.

As I was going through the motion of getting onto UberConference, organized by GestaltIT, I was already sensing something big. In the call, Commvault was acquiring Hedvig and it hit me. My drowsy self centered to the big news. And I saw a few guys from Veritas and Cohesity on my social media group making gestures about the acquisition.

I spent the rest of the week thinking about the acquisition. What is good? What is bad? How is Commvault going to move forward? This is at pressing against the stark background from the rumour mill here in South Asia, just a week before this acquisition news, where I heard that the entire Commvault teams in Malaysia and Asia Pacific were released. I couldn’t confirm the news in Asia Pacific, but the source of the news coming from Malaysia was strong and a reliable one.

What is good?

It is a big win for Hedvig. Nestled among several scale-out primary storage vendors and little competitive differentiation, this Commvault acquisition is Hedvig’s pay day.

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Minio – the minimalist object storage technology

By cfheoh | February 7, 2019 - 10:57 am |February 7, 2019 Amazon Web Services, Analytics, API, Appliance, Big Data, Cloud, Data, Data Archiving, Data Fabric, Data Management, Data Protection, Data Security, Deep Learning, Disaster Recovery, Edge Computing, Filesystems, Flash, FreeNAS, HDS, High Performance Computing, Hitachi Vantara, Industry 4.0, Katana Logic, Linux, Machine Learning, Minio, NAS, NetApp, NFS, Object Storage, Openstack, Redhat, Scale-out architecture, Tech Field Day

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The Marie Kondo Konmari fever is sweeping the world. Her decluttering and organizing the home methods are leading to a new way of life – Minimalism.

Complicated Storage Experience

Storage technology and its architecture are complex. We layer upon layer of abstraction and virtualization into storage design until at some stage, choke points lead to performance degradation, and management becomes difficult.

I recalled a particular training I attended back in 2006. I just joined Hitachi Data Systems for the Shell GUSto project. I was in Baltimore for the Hitachi NAS course. This was not their HNAS (their BlueArc acquisition) but their home grown NAS based on Linux. In the training, we were setting up NFS service. There were 36 steps required to setup and provision NFS and if there was a misstep, you start from the first command again. Coming from NetApp at the time, it was horrendous. NetApp ONTAP NFS setup and provisioning probably took 3 commands, and this Hitachi NAS setup and configuration was so much more complex. In the end, the experience was just unworldly for me.

Introducing Minio to my world, to Malaysia

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Sleepless in Malaysia with Object Storage

By cfheoh | January 22, 2019 - 1:42 pm |January 22, 2019 Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Analytics, API, Big Data, Cloud, Cloudian, Clusters, Data Management, Deep Learning, DellEMC, Dropbox, Filesystems, Google, Hadoop, Hadoop Clusters, HDS, IDC, IoT, iSCSI, Linux, Machine Learning, Microsoft, Minio, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, OpenIO, Redhat, Security, swiftstack

Object Storage? What’s that?

For the past couple of months, I have been speaking with a few parties in Malaysia about object storage technology. And I was fairly surprised with the responses.

The 2 reports

For a start, I did not set out to talk about object storage. It kind of fell onto my lap. 2 recent Hitachi Vantara reports revealed that countries like Australia, Hong Kong and even South East Asian countries were behind in their understanding of what object storage was, and the benefits it brought to the new generation of web scale and enterprise applications.

In the first report, an IDC survey sponsored by Hitachi Vantara, mentioned that 41% of the enterprises in Australia are not aware of object storage technology. In a similar survey, this one pointing towards Hong Kong and China, the percentages were 38% and 35% respectively. I would presume that the percentages for countries in South East Asia would not fall too far from the apple tree.

How is Malaysia doing?

However, I worry that the percentage number could be far more dire in Malaysia. In the past 2 months, responses from several conversations painted a darker hue about object storage technology with the companies in Malaysia. These included a reasonable sized hosting company, a well-established systems integrator, a software development company, several storage practitioners in Openstack and a DellEMC’s regional consultant for unstructured data. The collective conclusion was object storage technology was relatively unknown (probably similar to the percentages to the IDC/Hitachi Vantara reports), but it appeared to be shunned at this juncture. In web scale applications, Redhat Ceph block and files appeared popular in contrast to Openstack Swift. In enterprise applications, it was a toss of iSCSI and NFS.

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