A Look Back At The Year That Was For Enterprise Storage

I’ve done some crystal ball gazing in my first couple of blogs – looking forward at what is likely to come about in those technology spaces we…

Storage Trends 2015

This infographic depicts Storage Trends & its effect on Datacenters. It says that the next generation datacenter would be Agile, Scalable, Automated and Guaranteed. Following are the…

Conference Roundup – SNIA DSI Conference 2015

Got an opportunity to attend SNIA-DSI conference at Santa Clara, California. Like always, this time too, SNIA maintained its reputation of being a one-stop shop for vendor-neutral…

Empowering Network Virtualization with Automation – Part 1

When we talk about IT infrastructure, it consists of three major components – compute, storage and networking. In the new era of IT, virtualization has given a…

Calsoft Attends VMworld 2014

VMworld 2014 San Francisco once again exceeds and sets higher benchmark for hosting successful technology event. The event truly lived upon its theme of endless opportunities. Technology…

Why SMB3 NAS?

Microsoft has been investing quite seriously in the Network Attached Storage (NAS) protocol SMB 3. This clearly states that NAS is the way ahead. This post summarizes…

2014: Top Storage Technology Advancements to Watch Out

We hand-picked top storage technologies that are ready to take their place and have an impact on your data center in 2014. Flash Storage: Now a Mainstream. The…

ZFS as a software-defined storage platform

ZFS is a feature-rich file system that makes it valuable as a starting platform for software-defined storage. This post speaks about ZFS features that are of prime…

Software Defined Storage

Software defined storage is the latest buzz in the storage industry. It gives rise to questions such as how software-defined storage is different from storage virtualization? Is…