Antony Adshead

We look at S3, AWS’s object storage protocol that originated in its cloud services and has now spread as near enough a standard and to third party on-prem deployments

Storage array maker says customers can get data from any NFS storage to use in RAG for internal enterprise AI projects, and claims its OS metadata expertise enables this

Continent 8 consolidates infrastructure for cloud services and backs Nutanix as it gains influence over product roadmap and cools on VMware amid customer dissatisfaction over licence changes

We talk to Seagate about hard disk drives, use of AI to design HDDs with higher areal density, more TB per platter, and capacities up to 50TB, especially with HAMR recording.

Customer tolerance to supplier lock-in is exhausted due to the “shock” that came from changes in VMware licensing.

NetApp makes predictions for 2025 that include lower tolerance for lock-in due to VMware changes, a shift to DRaaS, AI disillusionment and big spending on energy infrastructure

We talk to Hitachi Vantara CTO for AI Jason Hardy about training, inference and agentic AI, and how competing workloads bring context switching that storage for AI has to handle

Espresso Gridpoint moved from largely NetApp to Pure Storage FlashBlade file and object for its ‘virtual datacentres' business model that offers VMware, Hyper-V and ProxMox VMs

In this 2024 review we look at Kubernetes’ evolution from stateless application runtime to enterprise-ready environment for cloud-native with persistent storage and data protection

In this 2024 review, we look at the impact of AI on data storage, what’s needed to support AI during training and inference, and storage suppliers’ responses to the rise of AI.