In the last few years we’ve seen advances in storage technology that have tremendous potential for IT customers. Some of these are enabled by investments made in developing flash solid-state drive (SSD) technology and adapting it to enterprise storage systems....
Read More »Large companies are represented by many people filling various roles to the outside world. These people are trying to accomplish different things. A marketing person is trying to create information that will highlight the company and give customers a reason...
Read More »At an alumni event recently I spoke with several friends who are also engineers but in different disciplines (power systems, chemical engineering, and geology). They commented about how the price of storage had declined so significantly over time, and talked...
Read More »Competitive pressures often cause companies to lose focus when adopting product marketing strategies. These pressures come from executives and boards, and can be intense. They can also cause a vendor to pay attention to the wrong things, instead of putting...
Read More »More than 70 storage hardware and software vendors will be exhibiting at VMWorld. That number verifies that VMWorld has become one of the major storage events where storage vendors choose to show their products and meet with customers, press, and...
Read More »With VMWorld approaching, vendors have already made announcements regarding storage and VMware with many to follow after the show begins next week. These announcements come mostly from storage vendors focused on the way storage is used in VMware environments. The...
Read More »Starting in late August, storage vendors will be making more product announcements than usual. These launches represent updates, next generations, or completely new products. Some announcements are coordinated with major industry events to give the vendors a venue to speak...
Read More »Storage tiering where data is automatically placed and migrated between different storage technologies improves the performance of a storage system by exploiting the access characteristics of data. The net effect of storage tiering may sometimes be lost in details of...
Read More »There are many predictions about what might happen in the coming year with respect to storage. Most of the predictions are relatively enthusiastic about what may happen. The predictions cover a spectrum from new technologies being introduced, adoption rates of...
Read More »Removable storage has had a long history of usage for data protection and information interchange. One major issue that has become exacerbated over time is the utilization of the capacity of the removable storage. This could be considered an important...
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