Several years ago, while working at a storage systems manufacturer, I was tasked by the CEO to do a research project for marketing involving looking into activites such as buying high retention youtube views, and other social media services. He...
Read More »As a Coloradoan, I was greatly pleased to see the purchase of SolidFire by NetApp, another data storage success in our state. But I was concerned when I read an article last week about how X-IO, the storage manufacturer in...
Read More »Cloud computing discussions often turn to the future of cloud—even with my relatives. Over Christmas dinner last year, a lively debate erupted over whether or not all company-owned and operated IT would eventually disappear. One in-law who is a CFO...
Read More »First came the Converged Infrastructure (CI), providing a way to simplify the integration of open systems components in large data centers. Then came Hyperconverged, which sounds like an even better solution for these same use cases, but really isn’t. Where...
Read More »The latest object storage systems are often misunderstood by potential buyers. This may be because these systems, capable of storing extremely large numbers of object and files, serve more than one type of environment. The messaging for one environment can...
Read More »Way back in the dot.com bubble, the idea of running applications over the internet was born. Companies sprouted up all over Silicon Valley that offered all sorts of services essentially running in a cloud, although it wasn’t called “the cloud”...
Read More »When the word “archive” is used in conversations about storing data, it brings up preconceptions depending on the individuals and their roles in IT. The most common thought is that an archive is where backup data goes, and the term...
Read More »The transition from a dependence on rotating disk to solid-state storage is under way. And as the cost per unit of solid state storage capacity inevitably decreases, enterprise IT is now getting the message that an investment in solid state...
Read More »Once upon a time (not that long ago) consolidation was all the rage in IT. Big arrays and “big iron” were the order of the day as networked storage (SAN and NAS) systems took over from direct-attached storage (DAS). IT...
Read More »Cloud computing is often spoken of in “as a service” terms like IT as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, Software as a Service, and Platform as a Service. And each has its well know XaaS acronym to go along...
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