Chris M. Evans is an independent consultant with Langton Blue, a London-based consultancy. He has worked in the IT industry since the late 1980s, after receiving a BSc (Hons) in computational science and mathematics from the University of Leeds. For most of the last 20 years, Chris has worked as an independent consultant, focusing on open systems storage and more recently virtualisation and cloud. In addition to his consultancy work, Chris blogs at www.thestoragearchitect.com and produces articles for online publications. You can contact him on twitter @chrismevans or via email at chris.evans@langtonblue.com.
Contributions from Chris Evans
- SSD Raid essentials: What you need to know
- Can hyperscale computing eclipse enterprise storage?
- VM storage emerges to meet virtualisation demands
- In-house tape vs cloud archiving: The pros and cons
- Storage vendors address server SSD shortcomings
- All-flash array market driven by virtualisation
- Hybrid cloud storage product comparison
- Cloud archive is ideal for long-term data retention
- Server SSD guide to form factors and implementations
- Big vendors behind in primary storage deduplication
- Unified storage now mainstream among storage vendors
- Virtual machine storage optimisation methods explained
- Hybrid cloud storage product roundup
- The virtual storage appliance vs the array
- Scale-out NAS meets unstructured data challenge
- vSphere 5 storage features move into array territory
- Hybrid cloud takes on cloud storage challenges
- Tape storage drive product survey
- Hardware-based encryption techniques for storage
- Storage virtualisation led by array-based solutions