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 »In many ways, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) is emblematic of a storage industry that is grappling with the need to quickly make a transition to new business models. Why? The storage industry has suddenly become a convergence zone for many...
Read More »On June 5, 2014, Fusion-io executives invited industry analysts to a one-day product announcement and company strategy update. Eleven days later, SanDisk announced that it intended to acquire Fusion-io for $1.1B in cash as it builds out its enterprise flash and solid...
Read More »Toshiba recently announced that it will begin demolishing its No. 2 semiconductor fabrication facility, the company’s NAND Flash memory plant, and replace it with a new fab facility on the same site. Why? According to Toshiba: “The primary purpose of...
Read More »I’m reading some handwriting on the wall. It says that revenue growth for the storage array platforms commonly used in enterprise data centers will be hard to come by in 2014. I say this knowing full well that more data is being...
Read More »Within enterprise data centers, Hadoop is a shiny new toy—the same place where the mainframe is sometimes thought of as a dinosaur. Yet the two have some things in common. Both are used as large scale, high performance batch processing...
Read More »In a recent blog post, Dan Crain, CEO of WhipTail (recently acquired by Cisco) concluded that: “We are seeing a new generation of data storage technology from companies that are pioneering new ways to think about “Big and Fast Data.”...
Read More »Against a backdrop of continued uncertainty regarding founder Michael Dell’s proposal to Dell private via leveraged buyout (LBO), Dell hosted its Enterprise Forum recently in Santa Clara, CA for about 1,600 attendees that included customers, channel partners, analysts, and Dell...
Read More »I noted in a previous blog post that Hadoop needed a number of enhancements to make it more acceptable to enterprise users. One of them was simplicity. Indeed, even some of the purveyors of Hadoop distributions privately admit that Hadoop,...
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