I have been told by a storage administrator that if he moved data to the cloud he was no longer responsible for it. He made the wash-my-hands of it sign during that conversation to illustrate it was “not my problem.”...
Read More »There are many opinions regarding how to handle information storage for big data analytics. By big data analytics, I’m referring to information associated with a data analytics operation that does the analysis in near real-time to present immediately actionable results. The most...
Read More »At SNW there is a chance to see what vendors want to inform the world about – from their product perspective. There are also presentations that are focused on education and general information for users of storage. This presents a...
Read More »It has been a long time coming, but virtualized storage is now a "must have" technology. Dell has announced its intent to acquire next-gen storage vendor 3Par for $1.15 billion, excluding 3Par's cash and other considerations. With this acquisition, Dell...
Read More »www.cnet.com/data-driven Last year, storage vendors were all about cloud. They saw major-league opportunities in the private, public, hybrid, and federated versions. No cloud was too big or too small. In fact, because clouds were "infinitely scalable," there was no limit...
Read More »My worthy competitors within the ranks of the storage analyst community have been out there for the last few weeks making predictions for 2010. Since I like to differentiate myself (and let's face it, I'm a bit late to the...
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