{"id":1758,"date":"2018-11-20T11:50:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T11:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2018-11-20T18:07:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T18:07:44","slug":"vmworld-2018-day-1-cohesity-blogger-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/?p=1758","title":{"rendered":"VMworld 2018 Day 1 – Cohesity Blogger Session"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the first night of VMworld EU 2018, I attended a blogger reception for Cohesity organised by Patrick Rednap. I was trying to cadge a VIP ticket to the vRockstar party that evening. While there I met the who\u2019s who in the blogger community, most people I knew for a long time.
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But presenting was Rawlinson Rivera CTO for Cohesity. For me, I didn\u2019t know much about them except they tagged themselves as secondary storage and usually, I avoid storage discussions and find them boring an old news.<\/p>\n

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Apart from Rawlinson\u2019s big bravado and humour I wasn\u2019t sure if I\u2019d be even interested but It was worth the while. I found out a few interesting things about them. So this is what I picked up:<\/p>\n

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\nThey abstract the data layer in their platform giving a consistent feel across private and public. So you get the same functionality in their services regardless of where you are sitting. Services like Data Protection, file&object and analytics. And its all API first\u2026 The problem they are trying to fix with this is Mass Data Fragmentation.<\/p>\n

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They\u2019ve done some testing to prove they are Web-Scale up to 256 Nodes Tested ~5PB raw capacity showing Linear performance scaling using Sequential and random IO.<\/p>\n

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I asked the question\u00a0are they doing dedupe client side and they claim to. They are doing Dedupe at every level \u2013 inline to Post job.<\/p>\n

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They acquired some tech called Helios and my understanding this is a manager of managers. Single UI for everything you need and offers some analytical functions.<\/p>\n

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One cool feature I found is they by default compress any video files, this is supposed to reduce backend storage needs like you wouldn\u2019t believe. All policy driven.<\/p>\n

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One feature I\u2019d have to research was a feature called Cloud Spin in which they are supposed to be able to help refactor applications by pushing data into a test\/dev area without dragging along with it the whole OS etc\u2026<\/p>\n

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Anyway, we had a bit of fun. Rawlinson a fun presenter and he caught our attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the first night of VMworld EU 2018, I attended a blogger reception for Cohesity organised by Patrick Rednap. I was trying to cadge a VIP ticket to the vRockstar party that evening. While there I met the who\u2019s who in the blogger community, most people I knew for a long time. But presenting was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storage","tag-storage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t