While it’s nothing new for information technologists to look at alternatives for their infrastructure, there seems to be more interest in that today than ever before. There is so much interest that it becomes more important than ever to understand...
Read More »Trickle-down is a term we heard a lot in the early 80s. It was used to describe an economics concept whereby prosperity would translate from the upper to lower income brackets (trickle down), through general business expansion driving job creation...
Read More »“In production” is a phrase often used by enterprise data center administrators to delineate applications and system that are used to support an organization’s day-to-day operations from those in a status that is something else—in test for example. And reaching...
Read More »For years we have been seeing technology in the storage industry ‘trickle down’ as advanced features and functions become available in smaller, less expensive systems. With the rise of hyper-scale IT and software-based infrastructures we’re seeing the technology ‘leak’ accelerate,...
Read More »It’s hard for me to imagine that EMC—the company with the most formidable sales machine in tech—is now to be acquired by Dell. Rewind to twenty-five years ago when EMC had an interesting but not necessarily advanced enterprise storage array...
Read More »A recent discussion with a client got me thinking about precipitating events that cause IT professionals to “put their house in order” regarding the information they store. In this case, there was a new all-flash storage system acquired for primary...
Read More »At VMworld a few weeks ago it seemed that every storage vendor had a hyper-converged solution. So it goes with this industry, a term gets popular and everyone jumps on the bandwagon – like happened with software-defined storage. But behind...
Read More »Copy data management (CDM) is a relatively new term for many in Information Technology. At first literal consideration, its meaning seems self-evident. However, it is really a topical area that vendors address with new products and terminology. Making copies of...
Read More »After attending Intel’s Developer Forum last week a few things about 3D XPoint from my previous blog need to be updated. This technology will be marketed by Intel under the name “Optane” and available in 2.5” SSDs leveraging the new...
Read More »Evaluator Group attended Flash Memory Summit 2015 in Santa Clara, this past week. Besides being markedly bigger and better attended than FMS events in the past, overall, the impression we got from this show is that there’s clearly an evolution underway...
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