Author: Herman Rutten
Technical consultant and Solutions architect with 20 years of field experience. At first focused on on-premises IT Infrastructure including enterprise servers, storage, virtualization, backup/restore and disaster recovery. Following evolutionary industry changes the scope has gradually broadened to public cloud, data security, hybrid connectivity and advanced analytics. Category Lead for the independent WhatMatrix Analyst community since 2015.
by Herman Rutten | Jan 20, 2017 | Data, Hyper-converged, Site Updates, Software Defined Storage
With significant changes occurring almost daily in the SDS / HCI market (HPE’s acquisition announcement of SimpliVity yesterday proves this once again) – our “always online” comparisons seem to become more relevant with every passing day! Visitor numbers and “open... 
by Herman Rutten | Dec 29, 2016 | Site Updates, Software Defined Storage
Every last quarter of the year the storage industry is thriving with energy. Most storage vendors release new hardware platforms and/or new major software enhancements. 2016 has proved to be no different. Cisco HyperFlex 1.8 (GA September), Atlantis HyperScale HS-338... 
by Herman Rutten | Sep 15, 2016 | Site Updates, Software Defined Storage
The inherent advantage of WhatMatrix’s “always online” comparisons is that they are frequently updated by our category consultants following product updates and public feedback (much appreciated and please keep it coming!). The evaluations posted on... by Herman Rutten | Aug 9, 2016 | Site Updates, Software Defined Storage
There have been some interesting features introduced in Nutanix’ Extreme Compute Platform (XCP) v4.7 release. For example, Nutanix has broadened its aim by not only including virtualization platforms, but serving storage to bare metal (physical server) platforms... by Herman Rutten | May 19, 2016 | Everything else ..., Site Updates, Software Defined Storage
Our SDS and HCI comparison has been updated with SimpliVity’s OmniStack 3.5 release. With the “re-emergence” of some of the larger storage vendors in the hyperconverged market the competition is getting even tougher. The picture illustrates that...
