Analyst Blogs

Evaluating a Hyperconverged Solution – Management and Advanced Features

By Eric Slack, Thursday, April 27th 2017

Analyst Blogs

Evaluating products in the IT space is a complex process. A simple “feeds and speeds” comparison isn’t enough as features and functionality proliferate. This is especially true with Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) products where the evaluation now encompasses compute and management...

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Evaluating a Hyperconverged Solution – Hypervisors, Containers and Cloud Support

By Eric Slack, Wednesday, March 29th 2017

Analyst Blogs

Evaluating products in the IT space is a complex process. A simple “feeds and speeds” comparison isn’t enough as features and functionality proliferate. This is especially true with Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) products where the evaluation now encompasses compute and management...

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Microsoft and VMware Will Square-off in the Hybrid Cloud – Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Friday, March 24th 2017

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In a previous blog, I noted VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger’s view of who he thought was VMware’s biggest competitor. It was (and is) Microsoft. He sees Microsoft “everywhere.” But let’s put “everywhere” aside for the moment. The arena where these...

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The Next as-a-Service: SRM – Forbes Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Monday, March 13th 2017

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I have been hearing recently that Digital Transformation is not about moving applications to the cloud, but rather moving enterprise IT from an internal Capex-oriented practice to a consumer of IT, self-service Opex model. IT vendors, taking their cue from...

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How to Choose a Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solution – Product Maturity and Company Stability – by Eric Slack

By Evaluator Group, Wednesday, March 1st 2017

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Evaluating products in the IT space is a complex process. A simple “feeds and speeds” comparison isn’t enough as features and functionality proliferate. This is especially true with Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) products where the evaluation now encompasses compute and management...

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A New Tool for Storage You Will Actually Use – by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Tuesday, February 14th 2017

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Relatively new in the storage world is a cloud-based application (Software as a Service or SaaS) that receives telemetry data from storage systems providing real-time dashboards along with reports and analytics. The analytics can predict potential failures, out of space...

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How to Choose a Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solution – Data Protection, Business Continuity and Management – by Eric Slack

By Eric Slack, Monday, February 13th 2017

Analyst Blogs

Evaluating products in the IT space is a complex process. A simple “feeds and speeds” comparison isn’t enough as features and functionality proliferate. This is especially true with Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) products where the evaluation now encompasses compute and management...

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How to Choose a Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Solution – Cost and Performance – by Eric Slack

By Eric Slack, Monday, January 23rd 2017

Analyst Blogs

Evaluating products in the IT space is a complex process. A simple “feeds and speeds” comparison isn’t enough as features and functionality proliferate. This is especially true with Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) products where the evaluation now encompasses compute and management...

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How to Choose a Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solution – by Eric Slack

By Eric Slack, Wednesday, January 11th 2017

Analyst Blogs

Evaluating products in the IT space is a complex process. A simple “feeds and speeds” comparison isn’t enough as features and functionality proliferate. This is especially true in Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) space where the product evaluation now encompasses compute and...

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Best of Breed-as-a-Service? – Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Monday, December 12th 2016

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The concept of running enterprise IT like a utility is far from new. Vendors were promoting it alone with the other “new economy” stuff of Internet 1.0. However, the concept has been slow to take off—partially because vendors really didn’t...

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