IBM has rebranded storage products and introduced XIV as a software-only offering under a new overarching identity – IBM Spectrum. The decoder ring for these products is: This name change will take a long time to become second nature for many in...
Read More »Veritas Rising Appropriately, Symantec will call its new information management spinout Veritas Technologies Corp. The company will consist of many products from the original, which Symantec acquired in 2005. Let me say that I think the spinout is a great...
Read More »Evaluator Group analyst and SNIA Board Member recently published a whitepaper for SNIA entitled "Software Defined Storage." The description of the paper is taken from SNIA Europe's website. This new whitepaper takes a look into attributes of SDS, the role...
Read More »In case you’ve been head down, buried in work this week you may have missed the announcement of VMware vSphere 6. If you are a VMware admin, you have likely been tracking this release for over a year. However, if...
Read More »We’ve been watching the advance of solid state disk (SSD) as its ever improving price for capacity metrics make it an attractive replacement for relatively slow, spinning, mechanical disk media. Disk drive manufactures like Hitachi saw this coming years ago...
Read More »Evaluator Group’s Hot Topics for Storage In February we are launching a webinar series on hot topics in the storage space. Outside of our Advanced Storage Education classes, most of our work is 1:1 with our IT clients. With the...
Read More »By my count, around 70 storage start-up companies were acquired in the past year. That is quite a few acquisitions, although not as many as in some past years. A surge in acquisitions always leads to contemplation about upcoming opportunities...
Read More »IT managers are being convinced by storage vendors that solid-state flash storage will accelerate their applications by magnitudes. But after deploying solid-state storage, many see only modest performance gains or no performance improvement at all. So, what happened to the promise...
Read More »Hadoop has progressed from a large scale, batch-oriented analytics tool used by a handful of webscalers to a multi-application processing platform for webscale and enterprise users. The vendors of Hadoop’s three major distributions uniformly characterize it as a modern architecture...
Read More »All storage systems have a controller, which is a device with a processor that sends instructions to the disks. Storage controllers differ from vendor to vendor, but generally fit into three types — custom designed, purpose-built, and commodity server-based. Each...
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