Since I began my career, I have always used business case models to determine best approaches for everything from comparing acquisition options to the value of implementing new technologies. For Evaluator Group, this has been a way of business as...
Read More »Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions abound in IT these days. They’re easy to set up and run, more powerful than ever and highly flexible, making them a popular choice for supporting a wide range of individual applications. And in many companies...
Read More »Creating copies of data is a tried-and-true method of data protection, but the number of copies can quickly get out of hand. Copy data management is one way to combat the issue. Copy data management has entered the lexicon of...
Read More »Shared storage access for servers has been the most basic requirement for storage networks. Performance demands for multiple systems accessing data continually increase due to improvements in compute and a desire to get more work done from infrastructure investments. These...
Read More »The history of computing can be seen as mankind’s journey toward making a machine imitate the human mind. Our brains process multiple streams and many types of data, simultaneously and in real time. We are able to focus on what’s...
Read More »There’s a new word cropping up in the storage industry, more often in presentations than in published writing (possibly because spell check doesn’t work while one’s giving a presentation). That word is “performant” and, although not actually a word, it’s...
Read More »Flash storage, or using the broader term, solid-state storage, suffers from an inadequate measure of value. Flash storage provides a step-function improvement in the ability to store and retrieve information. The value of processing with flash storage compared to access...
Read More »Backup is a tough job, one that touches essentially all of a company’s important data - and duplicates much of it. To make this job easier and more efficient, backup technologies have changed a lot over the years with snapshots,...
Read More »Scalability in IT systems is a fundamental requirement. Most compute environments need to grow, or at least have that capability as business expands, etc., so infrastructure choices are often made based on products’ abilities to meet this demand for resources....
Read More »John Webster recently published a report on "Survey of Surveys'. The Blog summarizes his findings or download the free report: Industry Insight: Cloud Survey of Surveys Enterprise Cloud adoption is one of the most–if not the most–surveyed topics in enterprise IT...
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