In a recent blog post I noted that the average enterprise data center saves all data forever. For many of the storage administrators at these data centers, that’s petabytes of data growing at the compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30%...
Read More »The use of solid state technology in the form of NAND flash for storage systems changes the way we need to evaluate storage. While it brings power, space, and reliability advantages, the main reason for using solid state is performance – it...
Read More »As a long time mainframe (and mini-computer) person, when the new converged systems hit the market, I felt it was throw back Thursday. Stop the presses, the open systems have gone amuck, we systems that do not require integration, testing...
Read More »There are many types of implementations of solid state or flash storage systems. At Evaluator Group, we regularly field questions and work on projects regarding solid state storage with our IT clients. In addition to the performance explanations and evaluation guide for...
Read More »A common practice among the purveyors of Enterprise IT storage is to begin a product pitch with the following admonition: “Stored data volumes are growing at explosive rates!” Therefor Mr. Customer, you need our product to manage this explosive growth, or else....
Read More »The Next Storage Management War [caption id="attachment_10593" align="alignleft" width="174"] Storage Management Wars[/caption] Storage management is a mundane topic; one too dry even for most seasoned IT and storage administrators. However, it appears to be getting interesting again. This means that...
Read More »In a recent blog post on Software Defined Storage (SDS) I mentioned that, while the model was attractive from the standpoint of lowering the upfront cost of enterprise storage, pricing models across SDS vendors are still a work in progress....
Read More »We have been working with IT clients who deploy private clouds as part of their operations. The reasons include implementing a change in the delivery of IT services, a new infrastructure for dealing with the overwhelming influx of unstructured data, and a...
Read More »This week another special purchasing model was announced, as Violin Memory rolled out its Pay-as-you-go model. There seems to be multiple financing options (or re-introduction), representative of the tightening of CAPEX budgets around IT. Violin Memory, needing to re-establish a...
Read More »Despite obvious evolution of the storage industry, the problems in storing and managing information are the same ones that have been there since the days of Data Processing in the 1960s. The problems have actually grown, with nuances that make them harder...
Read More »