There certainly are a lot of “check box” items in our industry. These are the long lists of features that populate technical data sheets. In an effort to keep up with the competition, it seems that vendors feel compelled to...
Read More »Microsoft, which joined the Cloud rush a few years ago with Azure, is gaining on market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS). Although AWS enjoys a roughly 30% market share, Az ure now has 11% of the market, and is increasing...
Read More »At VMworld a couple weeks ago, Chad Sakac, President of VCE, DellEMC’s Converged Platform Division, made it clear that Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions are a big part of the company’s plans moving forward. They’ve also had some early success. VxRail (which...
Read More »IT infrastructure doesn’t typically ‘wear out’, so much as it becomes obsolete. Technology changes fast enough that newer models offer substantial benefits over systems that may be only a few years old. This is particularly true with controller hardware where obsolescence...
Read More »Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions abound in IT these days. They’re easy to set up and run, more powerful than ever and highly flexible, making them a popular choice for supporting a wide range of individual applications. And in many companies...
Read More »There’s a new word cropping up in the storage industry, more often in presentations than in published writing (possibly because spell check doesn’t work while one’s giving a presentation). That word is “performant” and, although not actually a word, it’s...
Read More »Backup is a tough job, one that touches essentially all of a company’s important data - and duplicates much of it. To make this job easier and more efficient, backup technologies have changed a lot over the years with snapshots,...
Read More »First came the Converged Infrastructure (CI), providing a way to simplify the integration of open systems components in large data centers. Then came Hyperconverged, which sounds like an even better solution for these same use cases, but really isn’t. Where...
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 »NVMe and All-Flash Arrays - Two Reasons to Attend FMS 2015 by Eric Slack A long time ago (at least from an IT perspective) flash made the jump from consumer memory sticks to the enterprise and the storage industry has...
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