Analyst Blogs

Data Protection: Fresh Faces for Backup and Recovery Software

By Steve Scully, Monday, November 12th 2018

Analyst Blogs

We are hard at work on our Enterprise Data Protection Software matrix, corresponding Product Briefs and supporting documents.  We plan to launch this new coverage area around this time next month.  With hundreds of data protection solutions in the market...

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IBM to Acquire Red Hat for $34 Billion-Wow – Forbes Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Wednesday, October 31st 2018

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IBM has announced its widely unexpected intention to acquire Red Hat. For me and others I’ve spoken to, this is a stunning event that represents more than the $34B bet that IBM just placed on cloud and open source. But...

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Abolish the Cloud Data Toll Gate – Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Monday, October 8th 2018

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It is now common for public cloud services provides (CSPs) such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure to charge data egress fees. These are monthly fees levied on top of charges for cloud services whenever a customer retrieves...

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Data Protection: Combined Data Protection Systems Matrix simplifies research

By Steve Scully, Monday, October 8th 2018

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A few months ago, Evaluator Group combined what was four data protection systems matrices (virtual, entry-level, midrange and high-end) into a single, overall matrix for our traditional data protection systems research.  As data protection solutions have evolved over the years,...

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HCIs Can Have Disaggregated Architectures

By Eric Slack, Monday, October 8th 2018

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Product categories and labels can be useful for IT professionals who are involved in the process of identifying and evaluating potential solutions for a new project or infrastructure upgrade. Vendors and analysts are also interested in these product categories (in...

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Does Public Cloud Storage Cost More? Yes and No – Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Tuesday, September 18th 2018

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Recently published research on hybrid cloud storage use cases sheds light on the ongoing debate over which storage environment costs more: the cloud or an on-premises data center. It this increasingly advanced stage of public cloud storage usage within the...

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What VMworld 2018 Said About VMware – Forbes Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Monday, September 10th 2018

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VMworld 2018 drew a crowd of approximately 20,000, down 10,000 from last year’s attendance of 30,000. Why the fall-off in attendance isn’t exactly clear, but containers and public clouds are possibilities. Both are surfacing as potential threats to VMware’s dominating...

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VMworld 2018 – HPC/Big Data/AI: What’s New, Updates and Sessions

By Frederic Van Haren, Monday, September 10th 2018

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I attended VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas the week of August 27th, 2018. As every year there is a lot more going at the conference than just VMware. Many storage vendors are present to show off their new technology and...

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For Data, Lifespan is an Economic Issue

By Randy Kerns, Monday, August 13th 2018

Analyst Blogs

Data is critical to organizations and companies is a conclusion reached by most everyone.  In the different groups, there is wide variation in what is required to provide the necessary infrastructure to store, access, and manage information.  Decisions to implement...

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The Data-centric World of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

By Frederic Van Haren, Monday, August 13th 2018

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[Compute-centric] In the early days of High-Performance Computing (HPC) the concept of solving complex problems was driven by how much processing power was available to achieve the goal all within a reasonable amount of time. At the same time the...

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