Whose making the storage decisions now? Five years ago it was pretty straight forward. The person buying storage was the Storage Architect, influenced by the Storage Admin with a budget approved by the direct line bosses, depending on how much was...
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,...
Read More »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...
Read More »Major storage vendors constantly acquire technology through acquisitions and partnerships, and these deals often show a lot about where the industry’s technology is headed. They also show that large vendors often can’t afford to take the time to develop valuable...
Read More »Last year, Oracle completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. At the time there was much speculation regarding the future of Sun's server and storage hardware business and I heard a number of well thought out opinions. But two seemed to...
Read More »In a surprise move, IBM is acquiring a business analytics vendor named Netezza. I say "surprise" first because few in my line of work saw this one coming (IBM already has products in this space. Why buy another?), and second...
Read More »For years the IT industry has been extolling the virtues of "best of breed." Build your IT environment using the best servers, networking gear, apps, storage--all from the best vendors within their own particular space. Now it appears to be...
Read More »