Storage Visions2013
Every business thinks they are unique, but this segment really is. Media and Entertainment Storage isn’t like everyone else’s. Storage Visions, which is attached to CES, is a microcosm of...
View ArticleWe Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
Association works in funny ways. Driving to work this morning, the radio was playing Taylor Swift’s song “We are Never Ever Getting Back Together“, and all I could think of was three customers I...
View ArticleOne Small Step for LibStorageMgmt, One Giant Leap for Storage Administration
My first Tonian blog post was about a new open source library for storage management and how it nicely complements the pNFS story. The library name is LibStorageMgmt (LSM) and the original blog post...
View ArticleBest Data Storage Blog Posts of January
Four short weeks ago, we started our “Best Of” blog series by highlighting the most noteworthy blog posts of 2012. Well, a month has passed and there have been plenty of fantastic pieces written that...
View ArticleThe Lean IT Beta Process
Eric Ries’s LEAN Start-Up are based on a simple premise – A virtuous cycle of Build, Measure, Learn will create value and eliminate waste. CIOs use this methodology for software projects with great...
View ArticlepNFS: California gets Parallel
Last week was a whirlwind of pNFS and related presentations for Tonian, SNIA, and open-pNFS.org across California. I’m indebted to the organizers, fellow presenters and especially those who attended....
View ArticlepNFS in Red Hat
Today is a red-letter day in the advancement of Network Attached Storage! Red Hat now supports parallel NFS (pNFS) in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. When technology finds its way into the leading Linux...
View ArticleFebruary Blog Round-up Focused on Storage Performance
We’ve been busy with Beta programs underway, but we’re still reading and learning. Chuck Hollis is always a must read blog. Last month he weighed on on the Software-Defined-Storage discussion. He...
View ArticleWho is Buying Enterprise Technology? – Notes from IDC Directions
Who is Buying Enterprise Technology? by Douglas O’Flaherty Have you thought about how much the purchaser of IT has changed in the last few years? I have, but more importantly, so has IDC. Every year,...
View ArticleTonian.com: New Website for Innovative Scale-Out Storage Solutions
Tonian is pleased to announce the release of our new website, designed with a fresh new look and user-friendly navigation, updated with the latest information about our products and services. If you’re...
View ArticleGetting to Know Tonian – Sharon L.
Tonian is a unique company for so many reasons – not only for our pNFS technology and solutions – but because we have a great culture, work environment and company story. In the next few months you’ll...
View ArticleNews Update from Tonian on pNFS and Scale-Out-Storage
What does Tonian do? We provide pNFS solutions and… The IT Need for Speed Remove the storage bottlenecks in your Big Data, Virtualization and Cloud architectures. Tonian’s scale-out open solutions make...
View ArticleTonian High-Performance, Scale-Out NAS
Changing the Economics of Storage The Problem with NAS: Legacy storage architectures can’t deliver what the business needs: An infrastructure that quickly adapts to business needs. As a result,...
View ArticleEmbrace Change with pNFS for Improved Storage Performance
Today, organizations of all sizes face data management challenges. Not only is the amount of data growing exponentially, but much of it exists in non-traditional – and non-relational – forms. According...
View ArticleToigo: On Virt Admins & Storage
Struggling with storage capacity, performance or chaos, Jon Toigo paints an unflattering picture of the management of storage for virtualization today. “A lot of people are running server...
View ArticleSoftware Defined Storage: Finally!
Software Defined Storage discussion is getting really interesting. I’ve been waiting for an OEM announcement to shake up the conservative storage market. EMC’s VIPR is just that. Like pNFS and every...
View ArticleSDs 2.0
A couple of days ago, visiting an OpenStack event, I couldn’t help noticing the broad misuse of the software-define storage (SDs) term. Some of it derived from real confusion Some of it was deliberate...
View ArticlePrimary Data Raises $50 Million in Initial Funding
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – Nov 5, 2013 – Stealth-mode enterprise software company, Primary Data, which is leading the next evolution in software-defined data center technologies, today announced the closing...
View ArticleLance Smith Joins Primary Data as Chief Executive Officer
PALO ALTO, Calif. – Nov. 4, 2014 – Data virtualization startup Primary Data today announced that information technology industry veteran Lance Smith has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer....
View ArticlePrimary Data Transforms Datacenter Architecture with Data Virtualization and...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Nov. 19, 2014 [DEMO Fall 2014 booth D10] – Primary Data today emerged from stealth at DEMO Fall 2014, unveiling its platform that virtualizes data across a single global dataspace....
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