As someone well-placed at a major storage vendor pointed out to me recently, big box storage arrays are going the way of the dinosaur because a single all flash array can replace multiple disk arrays. And for that reason, the...
Read More »Yesterday, September 7, 2016, the EMC² logo disappeared. It’s hard for me to imagine that one of the greatest tech marketing companies of all time is suddenly gone. Yes, I know it lives on under Dell Technologies as DellEMC, but the...
Read More »The history of computing can be seen as mankind’s journey toward making a machine imitate the human mind. Our brains process multiple streams and many types of data, simultaneously and in real time. We are able to focus on what’s...
Read More »John Webster recently published a report on "Survey of Surveys'. The Blog summarizes his findings or download the free report: Industry Insight: Cloud Survey of Surveys Enterprise Cloud adoption is one of the most–if not the most–surveyed topics in enterprise IT...
Read More »Cloud computing discussions often turn to the future of cloud—even with my relatives. Over Christmas dinner last year, a lively debate erupted over whether or not all company-owned and operated IT would eventually disappear. One in-law who is a CFO...
Read More »Cloud computing is often spoken of in “as a service” terms like IT as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, Software as a Service, and Platform as a Service. And each has its well know XaaS acronym to go along...
Read More »I’ve just returned from OpenStack Summit 2015 in Vancouver where 6000+ software-defined attendees convened to contribute and commune and where the opening keynote speaker laid down the following proclamation: Every company is becoming a software company and every company has to write...
Read More »Software Defined Storage Needs a More Clearly Defined Value Proposition The Software Defined Storage (SDS) model in its early days was often compared to Software Defined Networking (SDN). Both used virtualization as a foundational technology and replaced hardware constructs with software...
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 »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....
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