Big Data Meets Data Fabric and Multi-cloud – Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Sunday, January 14th 2018

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As cloud computing progresses forward, an ages-old problem for IT is resurfacing—how to integrate and secure data stores that are disbursed geographically and across a growing diversity of applications. Data silos, which have always limited an organizations ability to extract...

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HCI – What Happened in 2017 and What to Watch for in 2018

By Eric Slack, Sunday, January 14th 2018

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The Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) segment continued to grow throughout 2017. Evaluator Group research in this area expanded in 2017 as well, adding products from NetApp, Lenovo and IBM. In this blog we’ll review some of the developments that occurred in 2017...

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Enterprise Vendors Expanding in the HCI Market

By Eric Slack, Tuesday, October 10th 2017

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The Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) market has been shifting towards the larger, established storage and server vendors for the past year or more. HPE bought SimpliVity earlier in 2017, Cisco is expanding its presence, and IBM and NetApp are coming out...

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Storage was a star at NAB–StorageSoup blog from Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Wednesday, April 22nd 2015

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Las Vegas – The storage presence at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show last week continued to grow due to the increasing demand to store files in the media and entertainment market. The increase in camera resolution to 4K...

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NetApp’s New Data Fabric Strategy, Forbes.com blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Wednesday, November 5th 2014

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Last week, NetApp chose its Insight customer/partner conference to make a number of product announcements that, taken together, mark a multifaceted expansion into public, private, and hybrid cloud deployments. At the heart of these announcements is NetApp’s Data Fabric strategy that marks another milestone in...

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Storage Alignment or the lack there of…

By Leah Schoeb, Friday, September 21st 2012

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Storage Misalignment has been a performance issue that has been around for a long time. It can contribute to as much as a 30% loss in performance is not resolved.  It has always been a consideration in the physical environments...

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The Public Cloud: Friend or Foe for Storage Vendors, John Webster blog post

By John Webster, Wednesday, August 11th 2010

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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...

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Georgens takes command at NetApp, CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Monday, August 24th 2009

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NetApp's new CEO is Tom Georgens. Georgens steps in as Dan Warmenhoven, NetApp's CEO since 1994, moves on to the position of chairman of the board and a partnership development role under the direction of Georgens. Warmenhoven's accomplishments were many,...

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