Cognitive Computing – A New Era of Thinking

Digital computation from number computation to text to rich media computation in the computing era is showing the sign of aging. The next big digital revolution in the current era of computation is trending towards context based computation popularly known as cognitive computing. So, what is cognitive….

Top 5 Storage acquisitions in first half of 2016

Every year acquisitions are changing the storage landscape, adding a lot of dynamism and churn in the entire storage industry. First half of year 2016 has been no exception. We have seen some key acquisitions happened which may impact storage industry in the long run. They were 27 acquisitions….

Looking Forward to Flash Memory Summit 2016!

Calsoft has been regularly attending Flash summit event. Given our interest in the Storage domain, this is the conference, we cannot miss. Flash Summit always live up to its expectation of providing a platform to network with companies and people that are creating next generation….

Flocker Driver/Plugin for Storage Arrays

Data persistence and portability use cases such as moving database containers between hosts and reattaching existing data volumes from shared storage environments can be challenging. When a Docker container moves with a standard volume driver, its data volume stays….

MAID Storage – Little Known Facts

MAID stands for Massive Array of Idle Disks, a technology that significantly reduces power consumptions and increases the longevity of disk drives. The core logic behind MAID is to reduce the number of spinning disks to a minimal number by shutting down idle disks. MAID technology is mostly targeted in the systems

Insight on Cisco Live 2016

Cisco Live 2016 is just around the corner and it’s ready to rock in Las Vegas this time. Cisco Live is known for providing the knowledge enterprises need to flourish in their respective digital business. Other than being an inspiration, Cisco Live also brings opportunities to meet numerous technology

Why User Experience is So Important?

Nowadays industry is giving a lot more importance to User Experience (UX) to keep their users happy. Everybody, right from the business decision makers, marketing to product managers are focusing on an easy, intuitive and interactive User Interface (UI). It has become a De-facto in product

Data Reduction in Primary Storage – Boon or a Burden?

In recent times there are many storage players embarking into the market and the competition is fierce. Storage vendors would not like to be behind in offering rich features in their products to attract customers. In addition, there are FUDs around dealing storage in a traditional ways due to….

Why OpenStack is So Different?

In 2010 Rackspace and NASA came together with a vision to create an open source platform which will help in building and managing various cloud platforms for public and private cloud ecosystem. They went ahead to create OpenStack, a free, open source platform with many groups of….

File System Testing – A Sneak Peak

File system is one of the most essential components in any storage appliance especially in NAS storage appliances. It plays a significant role in data reduction technologies such as; compression, de-dupe, thin provisioning, data integrity, security, data protection, and many more. Because of this tremendous dependency on….