Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) appliance vendors seem to be in a race to come out with the most features, a practice enabled by the software-defined storage (SDS) technology that’s at the foundation of these products. This trend is giving rise to...
Read More »There certainly are a lot of “check box” items in our industry. These are the long lists of features that populate technical data sheets. In an effort to keep up with the competition, it seems that vendors feel compelled to...
Read More »The advance of Big Data analytics and the need for real time results in application environments such as IoT is driving the need for a new approach to storage. Startups in this space have a particular goal in mind and...
Read More »As someone well-placed at a major storage vendor pointed out to me recently, big box storage arrays are going the way of the dinosaur because a single all flash array can replace multiple disk arrays. And for that reason, the...
Read More »Microsoft, which joined the Cloud rush a few years ago with Azure, is gaining on market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS). Although AWS enjoys a roughly 30% market share, Az ure now has 11% of the market, and is increasing...
Read More »At VMworld a couple weeks ago, Chad Sakac, President of VCE, DellEMC’s Converged Platform Division, made it clear that Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions are a big part of the company’s plans moving forward. They’ve also had some early success. VxRail (which...
Read More »Yesterday, September 7, 2016, the EMC² logo disappeared. It’s hard for me to imagine that one of the greatest tech marketing companies of all time is suddenly gone. Yes, I know it lives on under Dell Technologies as DellEMC, but the...
Read More »New features and functionality are constantly being added to storage systems. As operations have come to depend on functions such as remote replication and snapshots embedded in the storage systems, the features have become competitive requirements for products. We’ve recently...
Read More »IT infrastructure doesn’t typically ‘wear out’, so much as it becomes obsolete. Technology changes fast enough that newer models offer substantial benefits over systems that may be only a few years old. This is particularly true with controller hardware where obsolescence...
Read More »Direct and flat backups are part of a recent change in the data protection model. Explore the issues associated with the technologies and which products are implementing them. Data protection is one of the most basic functions in information technology...
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