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Confusion over storage consolidation — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2012-05-15Storage consolidation seems to be a simple concept. If you reduce the number of storage systems, you benefit from fewer devices to manage, less space required, and less power/cooling demands. Yet there is confusion over exactly what the term storage consolidation refers to. The confusion comes from some vendor messaging and what IT storage professionals
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HDS: Hitachi Unified Storage Product Analysis
2012-05-14The Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) is the follow-on generation to the Adaptable Modular (AMS) for mid-tier enterprise storage. For download and full product description please click here
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Advent of modern storage — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2012-05-06Storage systems are undergoing important changes. New systems are becoming available that are both sophisticated and make storage “simple.” Simple is mainly a euphemism for automating many complicated tasks that administrators had to deal with before, but there’s a lot more to this than just automation of tasks. There are modern architectures where the underlying
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Storage product rollouts are more spread out these days — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2012-04-30Last week two major storage vendors made significant system announcements. Hitachi Data Systems rolled out its Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) that has block and file support and is aimed at the mid-tier market. NetApp unveiled Dynamic Disk Pooling for the E-Series platforms. Dynamic Disk Pooling is a new storage pooling implementation enabling faster drive rebuilds
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Why ‘big data’ is here to stay — Data-driven Blog by John Webster
2012-04-25Eight years ago, a friend and I were researching a book we would later call “Inescapable Data – Harnessing the Power of Convergence.” We were after an understanding of what kinds of new information one could produce by blending data of different types and from different sources — GPS data, combined with RFID, combined with
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HDS: Building a Storage Environment for Super-Efficiency, New Research
2012-04-24In this whitepaper, John Webster enumerates the attributes of a storage environment designed for sustainable, high velocity growth, and reviews Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) as a platform for sustainable storage and data management. For download and full product description please click here
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HDS: Hitachi’s Approach to Storage Capacity Efficiency, New Research
2012-04-24This report examines and details the Hitachi approach to delivering storage capacity efficiency via its USP V and VSP platforms. In doing so, it will highlight how Hitachi looks at the overall economics of storage by reducing relevant operating expenses which they address with the characteristics of their storage systems and software. For document download
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The slow adoption of new storage technology- WHY? — blog by Camberley Bates
2012-04-20Over the last few months during our education courses and conferences, one topic kept coming up – the conservative nature of Storage Architects and Administrators (no – I am not talking Limbaugh or politics). Storage, in comparison to other technologies, seems to move slower than a snail on a cold California day. There seems to
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EMC RecoverPoint Product Analysis, New Research
2012-04-19EMC RecoverPoint is a solution consisting of software and an appliance that provides data protection for EMC and limited third party storage systems. For download and full product description click here
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NAB shows storage plays a big role in media/entertainment — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2012-04-19The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas this week drew a large number of storage vendors vying for the growing media and entertainment storage market. I’ve attended this conference the last five years, and seen more storage vendors every year. The storage vendors who go to NAB include those well-known in the
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Storage Optimization for VDI — VMUG Presentation
2012-04-18EGI explores the critical storage features needed for Virtual Desktop Initiatives (VDI). The focus is on storage system features required to meet the performance, and the critical TCO levels necessary for a successful VDI project. Read presentation here: Storage Optimization for
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Storage Performance Concept 101: Storage Education Series — New Research
2012-04-18Leah Schoeb reveals all the Storage Performance Concepts 101 in our Storage Education Series. This is the first of a series on Storage Performance where she explores the performance in physical and virtual environments, and covers various ways that can help diminish storage system bottlenecks. Download paper here: Storage Performance Concepts
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Consumerization of IT leads to accidental storage admins — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2012-04-13One of the ongoing changes in IT is the transition to IT generalists configuring and managing storage in all but the largest enterprises. This was always common in small enterprises, but now is increasingly the case in the mid-tier enterprise, too. Beyond storage, the IT generalist handles server operating systems, networking, and the virtualization hypervisors.
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Big data from SNW with John Webster by Calvin Zito, @HPStorageGuy
2012-04-11Calvin Zito sits down with John Webster at SNW to get his views on big data. John Webster podcast For more articles and podcasts by Calvin, please visit his blog: Around the Storage Block
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Green Storage Initiative podcast from SNW by Calvin Zito, @HPStorageGuy
2012-04-11Calvin Zito sits down with Evaluator Group’s senior analyst, Leah Schoeb to discuss what is happening with Green Storage Initative at SNIA and a program they started called Emerald. For more articles and podcasts by Calvin, please visit his blog: Around the Storage Block
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The promise of VDI: Are we there yet? — Data-Driven Blog by John Webster
2012-04-10My wife works for our local school department as an IT support specialist assigned to the town’s largest elementary school. Like many U.S. elementary schools, kids and teachers use a variety of personal computing devices, including PCs, notebooks, and now tablets. (Everyone wants to use these ’cause they’re way cool.) Keeping this veritable Noah’s ark
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Starboard Storage Systems – AC72 Lab Validation
2012-04-09In this test analysis, Evaluator Group assesses Starboard Storage Systems’ AC72 system; The evaluation focuses on several aspects with a particular focus on performance. The validation consisted of quantitative test efforts, which sought to characterize measurable attributes, along with a limited amount of qualitative validation. For document download and full description please click here.
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Long-term archives require detailed planning — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2012-04-05Conversations with IT people about long-term archiving usually begin by focusing on a specific storage device, and then it quickly becomes apparent that much more is involved. Addressing a long-term archive is a complex issue that requires education to understand. There is no single silver-bullet product. The technology discussions include devices/media for storing data and
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Is Hadoop the new tape? — Data-Driven Blog by John Webster
2012-03-27I attended GigaOM’s Structure:Data 2012 conference in New York City last week. This is the second one I’ve attended and I’m now a confirmed advocate of this event. Om Malik brings together people who, in one way or another, represent much the creative thinking around so-called big data. I got the feeling that I could
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Why storage has a short lifespan — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2012-03-26How long does an organization keep a storage system? That depends on a few things. For disk systems, there are several driving factors: • The length of the warranty period and the cost of a service contract after the warranty period. • The depreciation period on the system. These factors usually lead organizations to plan
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TCO vs. ROI: Remember transition costs
2012-03-19While talking to value added resellers (VARs) recently about selling storage systems, I noticed their presentations about vendor products featured return on investment (ROI) calculations. These ROI calculations focused on cost of the solution, savings in maintenance, floor space, power, and cooling, performance gains that enabled business expansion or consolidation, and savings in day-to-day administration.
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Proofs, validations and statistics, blog by Camberley Bates
2012-03-19Last week we had the privilege of training a group of sales people. In part of the training the students assumed the role of the end user during vendor presentations. The purpose was to gain a deeper understanding of the customer’s issues. When we debriefed we asked: “What did you experience when you took on
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Leah Schoeb Joins Evaluator Group, Expert in Storage Performance and Virtualization Infrastructure
2012-03-18Boulder, CO Monday, March,19 2012.Evaluator Group, Inc. announces the appointment of Leah Schoeb to the position of Senior Partner. Leah joins Evaluator Group with extensive knowledge in performance engineering and benchmarking around cloud infrastructure and virtualization. With her addition to the staff, Evaluator Group will expand coverage of converged and integrated solutions particularly in the
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Fixing VDI – Where We Go Next, by Russ Fellows
2012-03-12Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Technology users, IT administrators and CIO’s all have differing views on an ideal IT environment. Most users want reliability, with control and customization. The ability to install applications quickly and easily on a device is a model many IT consumers would like for their corporate desktops. IT administrators have also heard potential
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IBM Pulse 2012: Optimizing the World’s Infrastructure – Expo Stage with Randy Kerns
2012-03-09ibmsoftware on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free
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Risks from IT changes are real — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2012-03-07There is a great hesitancy on the part of IT in data center optimization initiatives due to the risks involved. IT pros are aware of the problems that can occur and almost everyone has painful stories to tell of things that have gone wrong. Even with the great benefits from data center optimization, the hard-earned
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Content Centric Applications — New Research
2012-03-06Evaluator Group covers NetApp’s E-Series storage system, examining both design and architecture as well as it’s ability to attain high RAS and performance for content centric applications. For document download and preview click here
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Thin Provisioning Block Storage – A Maturing Technology
2012-02-28Thin Provisioning Block Storage – A Maturing Technology is the forth paper in the Storage Efficiency Series. continuation of the focus on storage efficiency, covering the storage system feature thin provisioning and how it can be used for data center optimization. For document download page: click here
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Dell Acquires AppAssure for Data Protection — Client Advisory Note
2012-02-28In this client advisory note Evaluator Group covers the Dell acquisition of AppAssure and provides analyst commentary of the acquisition’s impact on Dell Storage. For document download page: click here
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Data protection in transition — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2012-02-28The increase in data capacity demand makes it difficult for Information Technology to continue with existing data protection practices. Many organizations have realized their protection methods are unsustainable, mainly because of the impact of the increased capacity demand and budget limitations. The increase in capacity demands come from many sources. These include business expansion, the
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Storage Complexity & Other Questions, blog by Camberley Bates
2012-02-26In the last few weeks we hosted two classes on Advanced Storage concepts, one in Colorado the other in the Netherlands. While not statistically valid, here are some of the comments including issues on storage complexity that were raised. Some a bit intriguing, as they were not expected. Concerns with RAID and large capacity drives
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Hitachi BlueArc NAS Tested by VDI-IOmark
2012-02-23Hitachi Data Systems Corporation announced that Hitachi NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc, has achieved exceptional benchmark results from VDI-IOmark testing based on the delivery of high-performance, scalable and file-based tools essential for managing VDI deployments. Cumulative Distribution Graph of Response Times for Hitachi BlueArc Mercury 110 Hitachi NAS platform has an ability to
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Exchange Optimization — Metalogix Exchange Manager
2012-02-22Email with Microsoft Exchange is one of the most critical applications in almost all businesses and organizations. The continued growth in the number of emails and the amount of data transferred via email creates an increasing set of problems for Information Technology. Keeping the Exchange environment under control and optimized to meet the organization demands
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Organization structures need optimization — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2012-02-21One of the most important parts of optimizing the data center involves improving storage efficiency. And that requires more than implementing the latest technologies. While working with IT operations in developing strategies to increase storage efficiency, it has become clear to me that organizational structure must change in order to expedite data center optimization. Like
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What’s different about storage for virtual desktops? — Data-Driven Blog by John Webster
2012-02-14It is often said that data center-level server virtualization projects created a renewed demand for networked storage, both NAS and SAN. If that’s true, then efforts to virtualize desktops–aka virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) projects–will create renewed demand for high-performance storage, both network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN). Storage performance is a major determinant
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Hitachi NAS Platform Reduces Operational Costs and Offers Greater Centralized Management of VDI Deployments
2012-02-14VDI-IOmark Testing Shows High Performance and Scalability Capabilities for VDI Environments to Help Organizations Achieve Greater Return on Storage Assets SANTA CLARA, Calif. — February 14, 2012 — Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT / TSE: 6501), today announced that Hitachi NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc®, has achieved
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VDI-IOmark, A Storage Specific Benchmark For VDI, Announces First Publicly Available Results With Hitachi HNAS Platform
2012-02-14VDI-IOmark for VMware View Provides Real Workload Measurement and Cost of Ownership Boulder, CO (PRWEB) February 14, 2012. VDI-IOmark releases the first public benchmark results with Hitachi Data Systems on their Hitachi NAS Platform (HNAS), powered by BlueArc®. Recognizing data storage is a major success component for VDI deployments, and that there has been no
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Part 2 on Strategies, Surveys and Requirements , a blog by Camberley Bates
2012-02-13Previously I discussed the value of surveys and their role (or dysfunction) in making decisions. If surveys can lead a Product Manager astray, how to best to gather information to decide on requirements and futures? In comes contextual interviewing - Contextual interviewing is best done with a large group of interviews where you can choose
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Storage System Design for Mixed Workloads — New Research
2012-02-13Consolidating different storage platforms into a larger, more efficient system can offer multiple benefits — reduced operational costs, reduced power and cooling requirements, reduced physical space, and reduction in overall system costs. But what’s required of a storage system to support mixed workloads? To understand the architectural and feature requirements necessary to effectively meet the
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Beware of IT inertia — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2012-02-08In information technology, the part of Newton’s laws of motion regarding inertia where a body at rest tends to stay at rest is often prevalent. In IT, this law means changes are increasingly difficult to make because change is often resisted. Resistance to change means missed opportunities to integrate new technologies, improve processes and become
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EMC VFCache Client Advisory Note
2012-02-07On February 6, 2012, EMC announced the VFCache product which was previously previewed to analysts as Project Lightning. The VFCache product consists of both hardware and software that resides within a server to enhance performance for some applications. Download
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Communicating or Telling?, blog post by Camberley Bates
2012-02-06The last few weeks I experienced two great examples of Communicating or Telling. One, was Ash, the CEO of Actifio. Peter Levine of A16Z said we needed to see what they were doing, so John Webster and I trooped over to their office to get a look. Instead of the ubiquitous 15 slide presentation we
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Data Protection Q&A with Evaluator Group’s Randy Kerns by Peter Eicher
2012-02-03This week, the Syncsort team from around the world has gathered in Newport Beach, CA for our 2012 Global Sales Kickoff. It has been a great event to say the least with presentations from NSB customers, channel partners, NetApp executives, and our own solution experts. In conjunction with the event, we were also able to
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CommVault Simpana 9 Lab Validation
2012-02-01Evaluator Group assessed CommVault’s Simpana 9 software in December 2011. There were several areas of focus during the testing, which included qualitative factors, along with certain quantitative testing. The test objectives were to 1) Validate new Simpana 9 software data protection and recovery scenarios for virtual environments, 2) Assess the capabilities of Simpana SnapProtect, 3)
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When Leadership Fails, blog by Camberley Bates
2012-01-30This last week I talked to my father, “the Captain,” about the cruise ship Costa Concordia grounding in Italy. Several people had asked me his opinion, knowing he was a former US Navy officer and cruise ship captain. (USS-Edson, USS Traverse County and American Hawaiian Cruise / SS Constitution). In his opinion, the captain should
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Storage Efficiency and Data Center Optimization — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2012-01-30Optimizing the data center is a major initiative either in progress or being planned for most IT operations. Optimization includes using resources more effectively, upgrading or replacing systems that are more efficient and with greater capabilities, consolidating systems using virtualization and advanced technologies. The goals for optimization are reducing cost and increasing the efficiency of
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The end of the server-versus-storage wars is nigh — Data Driven Blog by John Webster
2012-01-26Scott McNealy, former CEO of the former Sun Microsystems, once infamously opined that storage was a (mere) feature of the server. The problem was that at the time he made that comment, the storage industry was writing its declaration of independence. Fibre Channel-based SANs were consolidating and replacing direct attached storage (DAS) architectures in many
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SMBs need disaster recovery plans, too — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2012-01-23I was asked to do a disaster recovery review for a small non-profit corporation recently. While larger organizations regularly bring in somebody to review their preparedness for disasters, small businesses rarely bring in an outsider. This company had fewer than 20 employees, all at a single location. As always, the first step was to interview
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Tuning storage and cars — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2012-01-18There are similarities to the advances in storage systems and the advances we’ve seen in automobiles. When you’ve spent most of your life working on both, the similarities become noticeable. Storage systems today have a focus on improving simplicity. That’s simplicity from the standpoint of being easy to install and operate. Installation simplicity is measured
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EMC Avamar Product Analysis
2012-01-17New in Evaluator Series Research is the product analysis of EMC’s Avamar. The EMC Avamar backup solution addresses problems in backing up data on both local and remote systems. EMC Avamar supports backing up remote or local servers, laptops, Network Attached Storage systems, and Virtual Machines. For Document Description and Download please click here
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Valuing Data, Pictures and Memories
2012-01-17Dad had a heart attack this weekend. It was his third. I thought I knew how to deal with it. I didn’t. I was brought back to his pictures, those of us on the his ship, the USS Constitution. The ubiquitous picture of him with all the passengers, in the same smile, time after time. Him dressed
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NetApp’s Open Solution for Hadoop
2012-01-16A growing number of enterprise IT-centric vendors are responding to the opportunity to offer a Hadoop-based data analytics solution that conforms to the demands of a production data center environment. Here we review one such solution that has resulted from a partnership between NetApp and Cloudera, the commercial face of Apache Hadoop. For full description
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Quantum DXi6700 Lab Validation
2012-01-16Evaluator Group assessed Quantum’s DXi6700 data deduplication appliances in September 2011. There were several areas of focus during the testing, which was both quantitative and qualitative. For full description and document download please click here
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Decision Making and Surveys – 4 things to consider
2012-01-06I was recently reminded about the risks of taking guidance based on surveys. Claims such as growth, adoption and intent can all be highly varied based on survey structure and administration. My husband, Tim Bates is an expert Product Manager, works with the national organization PDMA that trains and publishes on best practices. We discussed
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Life after RAID – - Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2012-01-05Recent developments point to a change in how we protect the loss of a data element on a failed disk. RAID is the venerable method used to guard against damage from a lost disk, but RAID has limitations – especially with large-capacity drives that can hold terabytes of data. New developments address RAID’s limitations by
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Evaluator Group Announces Randy Kerns Appointment as Chairman of the Triangle Education Foundation
2012-01-04Mr. Kerns will lead the foundation to benefit undergraduate funding for engineering, architecture and science Boulder, CO, January 04, 2012: The Triangle Education Foundation recently announced the appointment of Randy Kerns as the Chairman of the Foundation. Randy Kerns continues his role as the Senior Strategist for Evaluator Group adding his professional leadership to
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Rear view mirror metrics don’t tell full story — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-12-28I read all the reports on the how the storage industry is doing. These include many segments in storage hardware and software, sometimes going into great detail. These reports often come from data that is self-reported by vendors on how they’ve done in shipping products. They draw comparisons with the previous quarter, the same quarter
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May 8, 2012 – Interop in Las Vegas
2011-12-27Randy Kerns presents ” Optimizing Storage for Server and Desktop Virtualization” on Tuesday, May 8 at 2:30pm at Interop in Las Vegas. Description: Implementing server and/or desktop virtualization (e.g. VDI) has serious implications for the storage infrastructure. The requirements for storage are affected and the storage solutions need to be evaluated based on a different
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May 9, 2012 Avnet IBM Storage Executive Event – Miami, FL
2011-12-27On May 9th at the Alexander Oceanfront Resort, Miami Beach, Randy Kerns will present at Avnet IBM Storage Executive Event. Please contact us for more information
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May 21-24 – EMC World 2012, Las Vegas at the Venetian
2011-12-26Evaluator Group Analysts will be attending EMC World on May 21 – 24 at The Venetian in Las Vegas,NV. For more information please contact us or please see event website for more details
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June 6, 2012 – Storage in a Virtual World, Bellevue, WA
2011-12-26Russ Fellows presents, “Storage in a Virtual World” on June 6, at Daniel’s Broiler in Bellevue, WA. Join Evaluator Group and GMI to learn about IBM’s V7000 solutions and how to make the best storage decisions. For more information and registration please click here
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Aug. 21 – 23, 2012 Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, CA
2011-12-26Evaluator Group Analysts will be attending Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, CA at the Santa Clara Convention Center, August 21 -23. Please contact us or see the event website for more information
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Aug. 27-30, 2012 VMworld in San Fransisco, CA
2011-12-25Evaluator Group Analysts will be attending VMworld 2012 in San Fransisco, CA at the Moscone Convention Center on August 27 – 30. Please contact us or see event website for more details
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Sept. 30 – Oct. 4, Oracle World 2012 in San Fransisco
2011-12-23Evaluator Group Analysts will be attending Oracle World in San Fransisco on September 30 – October 4. Please contact us for more information
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Solid state, server-based storage have staying power – - Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-12-22Many new storage technologies show great promise. They have useful capabilities such as transferring data faster, storing information for less cost, migrating data with less disruption and administration, and utilizing storage resources more efficiently. Technologies get evaluated on the value they bring and are introduced into the mainstream over time. New technologies also spawn start-up
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Oct. 30 – 31, SNW 2012 Europe in Frankfurt, Germany
2011-12-21Evaluator Group Analysts will be attending SNW Europe in Frankfurt, Germany on October 30 -31. For more information please contact us
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Oct. 31 – Nov. 1 Storage Expo in Urtrecht, Netherlands
2011-12-20Evaluator Group Analysts will be attending Storage Expo in Urtrecht, Netherlands on October 31 – November 1. For more information please contact us
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Nov. 10 – 16 SC12, in Salt Lake City
2011-12-19Evaluator Group Analysts will be attending Super Computing 2012 in Salt Lake City on November 10 – November 16. For more information please contact us
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Dec. 2 – 7 CMG 2012 in Las Vegas, NV
2011-12-18Evaluator Group Analysts will be attending CMG in Las Vegas on December 2-7. For more information please contact us
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Evaluator Group, Quantum DXi6700 Lab Validation Podcast
2011-12-15Evaluator Group’s Senior Analyst Russ Fellows discusses the Lab Validation of Quantum’s DXi6700, and how the results confirm that the DXi6700 provides a price-performance advantage over all competitors in the midrange. For more information and for the podcast download page, please click here: Evaluator Group, Quantum DXi6700 Lab Validation Podcast
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Evaluator Group Testing Confirms Industry-Leading Performance and Value of Quantum’s DXi6700 Deduplication Systems
2011-12-15Price-Performance Beats All Competing Systems in the Category SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 15, 2011 – Quantum Corp. (NYSE:QTM), a proven global expert in data protection and big data management, today announced the results of an evaluation of its DXi6700 deduplication appliances by industry analyst firm Evaluator Group, based on hands-on tests across common use cases.
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Predictions for 2012, Perspective from EGI and our End Users — Article by Evaluator Group Staff
2011-12-13As we turn another year, it typically time for expectations and reflections. Here are the trends (given the input from IT end users) we expect to see next year. ITaaS (aka private cloud) will be undertaken by more IT organizations driven initially by the need for VM management. Provisioning, monitoring, management, and reclamation requirements for
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Why we keep data — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-12-09I’ve attended two conferences recently where a speaker talked about storage efficiency and the growing capacity demand problem. The speaker said that a part of the problem is we don’t throw data away. That blunt statement suggests that we should throw data away. Unfortunately, that was the end of the discussion and the rest was
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EMC Data Domain Product Analysis
2011-12-08The EMC Data Domain system is a deduplication system that is used for backup and long term storage. There are a wide range of EMC Data Domain models to cover the spectrum from remote office through high end enterprises. The systems are offered as appliances, paired systems for global deduplication, and as an archiving system.
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D2D VTL Product Comparison Matrices
2011-12-072012 version of the Disk to Disk, Virtual Tape Library Product Comparison Matrices. Covering all major products in the Entry-level, Mid-Range, and High-End storage categories, Evaluator Group provides side-by-side analysis of the following products
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Business critical applications drive storage requirements — Strorage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-12-01Discussions for buying storage typically begin with determining the company’s requirements, and usually focus on meeting the needs of business critical applications — also known as tier 1 applications. As the term implies, these applications are the most critical to an organization. In most cases, downtime or interruption to business critical applications causes a significant
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Efficient storage systems and data management add value — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-11-23Although IT professionals and vendors often think of storage efficiency in different ways, there are usually two main methods of handling it. One is through efficient storage systems that maximize resources. The other way is through data management that determines where data is located and how it is protected. Efficient storage systems control the placement
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RDX Alliance: RDX Filling the Requirements for Removable, by Randy Kerns
2011-11-22Technology changes over time and the operational workflows for companies change as well. Data protection is one area that is a constant in that the requirements to protect data will continue. What is changing is the method for protecting information. The current workflows used by many in performing backups are unsustainable given the increase in
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What if you could collect all of the world’s data into one place?– Data-Driven Blog by John Webster
2011-11-21Occasionally we see some learned organization counting the number of bytes of data that humans have produced to date. And I’ve been known to scoff at these projections. Seriously folks, even if you think that the number is 789.332 yottabyes on some given day–let’s say today–the number is bigger tomorrow. And it gets bigger the
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CRN Article: Storage Efficiency Key To Managing Fast-Growing Data, by Joesph Kovar
2011-11-16Managing the growing amount of accumulated data can be difficult for any business, but those that apply the right management tools will find ways to increase the efficiency of their storage environments. That’s the key takeaway from a panel on storage efficiency presented this week at the COMDEXvirtual conference. Moderating the panel was Camberley Bates,
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The power of big free data — Data Driven Blog by John Webster
2011-11-07I’ve been spinning some cycles lately looking for free data. Why? Here’s my thesis: As our use of the cloud evolves, we will come to understand that, to do powerful computational things, we not only don’t need to own massive amounts of IT infrastructure, we don’t even have to own the data. The cloud will
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Evaluator Group Announces Advance Storage Education – Optimizing Storage Environments: Technologies and Systems
2011-11-02Evaluator Group, Inc. (EGI) announces the return of their Advance Storage Education – Optimizing Storage Environments: Technologies and Systems, designed specifically for storage professionals. The classes will be held February 8-9, 2012 in Boulder, Colorado at the historical Hotel Boulderado, and February 14-15, 2012 in the Netherlands in conjunction with Inframatica Consultants. The class is
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IT Decisions: Bleeding, Leading and Managing, blog by Camberley Bates
2011-11-01At Evaluator Group, part of our business is devoted to advising end users. When engaging in their storage review process, we make an effort to incorporate the management style and leadership structure of the organization and how decisions are made. Without this insight it is very hard to guide an organization through the myriad of
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Mastering DR is a critical skill for storage pros — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-11-01When working with storage professionals, I always try to understand where storage fits in their organization’s strategic initiatives. The business environment they work in and how they interact with the business owners of critical applications will explain a great deal about the opportunities and limitations for improving their storage strategy. Storage professionals interact with business
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Who makes the call on archiving? — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-10-26Data archiving makes sense when primary storage gets filled up with data that is no longer active. Data growth on primary storage – the highest performing storage with the most frequent data protection policies – results in increasing capital and operational costs. Organizations can save money by moving the inactive data or data with a
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Storage Efficiency – Vendor Perspective, Section III: Data Protection
2011-10-24This educational series paper from the Evaluator Group is part two of a two part explanation in the storage efficiency practice where the first paper had the focus on the Information Technology operation perspective. This paper presents several vendors’ perspective on storage efficiency. It is not intended to be judgmental; only reporting on the vendor.
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Brocade Network Subscription Annoucement Summary
2011-10-24On August 30, 2011, Brocade announced Brocade Network Subscription, a pay-as-you-go subscription program for data-center-based IP network infrastructure (GbE, iSCSI, FCoE). This is an off-balance sheet alternative to purchase program that includes networking hardware, software and support. Customers pay a monthly fee for Brocades networking infrastructure, maintenance, and networking expertise. For more information and download:
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Storage Expert provides Strategic Advice by Witold Kepinski, featuring Randy Kerns
2011-10-21The American storage expert Randy Kerns of the Evaluator Group recently gave a two-day training in the Netherlands organized by Inframatica Consultants. He gave some advice to IT decision makers and data storage specialists in large organizations, such as Rabobank, ING and KPN. His talk included virtualization, tiered storage, archiving and the strengths and weaknesses
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Undercurrents of Storage
2011-10-18Over the last six months we have been looking at critical undercurrents that change the landscape and architecture of storage. Data Analytics, virtualization of servers and desk tops, and BYOD (bring your own device) are just a few of the examples (forces?) that are changing IT. But, it was a presentation by Geoffrey Moore at
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Storage tiering and caching bring different values, costs — StorageSoup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-10-17We hear a lot these days about tiering and caching in storage systems. These are not the same thing. Some systems implement tiering across types of media, while others cache data into a solid-state device as transient storage. Other storage systems have both capabilities. IT professionals may wonder what the differences between tiering and caching
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Storage technology adoption is a slow process — Storage Soup by Randy Kerns
2011-10-07In the last few years we’ve seen advances in storage technology that have tremendous potential for IT customers. Some of these are enabled by investments made in developing flash solid-state drive (SSD) technology and adapting it to enterprise storage systems. These new storage technologies improve the processes of storing and retrieving information. They reduce costs,
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Storage Efficiency – Vendor Perspective, Section II: Storage Vendor
2011-10-04This educational series paper from the Evaluator Group is part two of a two part explanation in the storage efficiency practice where the first paper had the focus on the Information Technology operation perspective. This paper presents several vendors’ perspective on storage efficiency. For download and full description: Storage Efficiency – Vendor Perspective, Section II:
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Storage companies have many faces — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-10-03Large companies are represented by many people filling various roles to the outside world. These people are trying to accomplish different things. A marketing person is trying to create information that will highlight the company and give customers a reason to consider or continue with its products. Sales people are on the front lines with
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The data-driven debate we need to have — Data-Driven Blog by John Webster
2011-09-19Typically I write about storage. Now, as part of my research, I’m writing about data–data about you. The hottest commodity on the Web right now is data that describes who you are, what you like, what you do, who you know, where you’ve gone, where you might be, and what you are likely to do.
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Changing definitions for storage systems — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-09-19At an alumni event recently I spoke with several friends who are also engineers but in different disciplines (power systems, chemical engineering, and geology). They commented about how the price of storage had declined so significantly over time, and talked about storage they had just seen in a local retail outlet. I explained that what
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Vendors should focus on customers, not competitors — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-09-19Competitive pressures often cause companies to lose focus when adopting product marketing strategies. These pressures come from executives and boards, and can be intense. They can also cause a vendor to pay attention to the wrong things, instead of putting the attention on the customer. Vendor strategies must start with a few basics: What is
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EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance
2011-08-29The EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance is software that automates data migration, tiering, and archiving for files based on policy controls. For full description and product download: EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance
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VMWorld is a major storage event – - Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-08-29More than 70 storage hardware and software vendors will be exhibiting at VMWorld. That number verifies that VMWorld has become one of the major storage events where storage vendors choose to show their products and meet with customers, press, and analysts
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Is your company channel ready? Part II in a series on channel marketing. A blog by Camberley Bates
2011-08-26When you get ready to enter the channel, whether a test run or full court press, you need to assess if the company and your products are ready. Much like assessing the readiness for a product for launch, a company needs to address requirements needed for the channel to sell and implement. Those that launch
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The channel and sales compensation – Part IV in a series, a blog by Camberley Bates
2011-08-25Sales compensation is one of the most important tools a company has in developing a channel. The channel (called resellers in this article) needs the company sales force (either the direct or channel only focused) to teach and jointly sell, especially early on. As they begin to introd uce the company to their clients (your
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SearchStorage: Understanding Big Data analytics — by John Webster
2011-08-24Now that the cloud computing bandwagon is out of gas, vendors have jumped on the next one to roll down the pike: Big Data. And as with previous hype cycles, Big Data is now a source of confusion for users as vendors put forth their own unique and often conflicting definitions of the term. The
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VMware and the importance of storage — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-08-24With VMWorld approaching, vendors have already made announcements regarding storage and VMware with many to follow after the show begins next week. These announcements come mostly from storage vendors focused on the way storage is used in VMware environments. The volume of announcements highlight how critically important storage is in the world of server virtualization.
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Brace yourself for storage announcement season — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-08-19Starting in late August, storage vendors will be making more product announcements than usual. These launches represent updates, next generations, or completely new products. Some announcements are coordinated with major industry events to give the vendors a venue to speak about and demonstrate the products. The early fall dates get the messages out at a
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SAN Entry-Level Matrix Hardware Comparison
2011-08-17SAN Storage Entry-Level Matrix. The matrix covers hardware, scalability, configuration and performance data. For download and full description: SAN Entry-Level Matrix Hardware Comparison
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SAN Midrange Base System Matrix Comparison
2011-08-17This matrix covers the feature functionality of multiple vendors, comparing hardware, configuration and performance.For download and full description: SAN Midrange Base System Matrix Comparison
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SAN High-End Base System Comparison Matrix
2011-08-17SAN Storage Multi Platform – Feature Function Matrix. The Matrix covers hardware, scalability, configuration and performance data. For download and full description: SAN High-End Base System Comparison Matrix
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EMC Symmetrix VMAXe Product Brief
2011-08-17The EMC Symmetrix VMAXe is functionally based on the Symmetrix VMAX with notable differences allowing the system to be positioned as a more cost effective high-end block storage solution. The VMAXe is an open systems only offering (no IBM mainframe support) that is housed in 19” racks with single phase power and has the ability
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Updated: EMC VMAX Product Analysis
2011-08-17The V-Max is the continuation of the EMC’s Symmetrix high end storage system series and the successor to the Symmetrix DMX series. The V-Max is powered by the Engenuity firmware enabling a high-end functionality enterprise class storage array which is based on EMC’s Virtual Matrix architecture. For download and full description: EMC VMAX Product Analysis
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Updated: EMC VNX NAS Product Analysis
2011-08-17The EMC VNX series of storage systems are a family of systems that provides unified file and block storage and replace the CLARiiON and Celerra product lines. The systems provide a wide set of connectivity options for block access and for file access as a NAS system. There are two different series in the VNX
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PODCAST with John Webster with Calvin Zito on HP’s Data Deduplication
2011-08-14John Webster, Senior Analyst and Calvin Zito the @HPSTORAGEGUY discuss the future of deduplication and StoreOnce. The Storage Block Blog
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Storage Tiering: Enabler for Storage Consolidation – Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-08-14Storage tiering where data is automatically placed and migrated between different storage technologies improves the performance of a storage system by exploiting the access characteristics of data. The net effect of storage tiering may sometimes be lost in details of maximizing storage system performance. Storage Consolidation is one of the major storage efficiency improvements that
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Storage Prediction? Judging Reality, Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-08-14There are many predictions about what might happen in the coming year with respect to storage. Most of the predictions are relatively enthusiastic about what may happen. The predictions cover a spectrum from new technologies being introduced, adoption rates of recent technologies increasing, investments in companies, and acquisitions that may occur. There are even some
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Capacity Utilization with RDX — RDX Storage Alliance Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-08-14Removable storage has had a long history of usage for data protection and information interchange. One major issue that has become exacerbated over time is the utilization of the capacity of the removable storage. This could be considered an important component when evaluating the efficiency of the removable storage. Depending on the technology used, it
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The Challenge for Storage Entreprenuers, CNET Blog by John Webster
2011-08-13The storage-focused BD Event wrapped up last week in Boston. If you’re an entrepreneur with designs on the enterprise storage market, this was the place to be. Read John’s blog about Peter Bell and Peter Levine’s commentary. Read the blog.
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How to evaluate storage products from startups, StoragebSoup blog by Randy Kerns
2011-08-10Startup companies will often innovate and bring a unique product to market that can have high value for customers. The product may fit a specific need or solve a problem in a unique and economical manner. These innovations are good for the overall industry and should be encouraged. A startup’s success is measured in products
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Evaluating Purchase of Storage Systems from Start-Ups – - Storage Soup Blog
2011-08-08Startup companies will innovate and bring a unique to product to market that can have high value for customers. The product may fit a specific need or solve a problem in a unique and economic manner. These innovations need to be encouraged and success is measured in sales of the products. Eventually these products and
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Evaluator Group Announces Storage Specific Benchmark for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, VDI-IOMARK
2011-08-02VDI-IOmark measures IO performance streamlines proof of concept testing for VMware View environments. Boulder, CO (PRWEB) August 2, 2011. Evaluator Group Inc. announces the first industry storage benchmark for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), the VDI-IOmark. Over the past year Evaluator Group has assisted IT organizations establish requirements for full scale out VDI environments. Part of
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VDI benchmarks for storage – - – Storage Soup Blog
2011-08-01As we see more companies begin Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments, we spend more time explaining storage issues related both to server virtualization and VDI. VDI deployments depend heavily on the intelligent usage of storage and on high-capability storage systems. The typical VDI project begins with a pilot program using existing physical servers and existing
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Automated tiering: Enabler for storage consolidation, Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns
2011-07-26Storage tiering, where data is automatically placed and migrated between different storage media, improves the performance of a system by exploiting the access characteristics of data. However, the net effect of tiering sometimes gets overlooked in discussions about maximizing storage system performance. Storage consolidation is one of the major benefits from automated tiering. The Evaluator
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Technical innovation and the Department of Revenue Prevention, Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns
2011-07-19All new storage technology doesn’t come from startups, although you might get that impression by reading about industry acquisitions. The reasons most often listed for acquisition of a start-up company are: • Technical infusion (technology acquisition) • Expansion into a new business area (new technology and staff) • Complementary solutions (filling in a product line
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How CIOs obtain information — observations from the field, Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns
2011-07-11When talking to CIOs, IT directors and managers, I’m sometimes surprised by what they know – and don’t know – about industry developments. During an education session I held recently, the IT people told me they had not heard of VAAI, the VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration. This surprised me, given the performance gains
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What Oracle wants from storage, CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster
2011-07-09Last 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 stand out, both in opposition to one another: 1. Sun’s hardware business doesn’t return the
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Scale-out NAS Purchasing Considerations – - Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-06-30Scale-out NAS is becoming popular, with most major vendors offering these types of products. As a reminder, scale-out NAS systems will increase performance and capacity at the same time – although you don’t have to scale the systems in the same ratio. You can add controllers for performance, storage for capacity, or both. There are
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Misconceptions about storage tiering in the mid-tier, Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns
2011-06-21During many of my discussions with IT managers and directors who would be classified in the mid-tier enterprise space (over 1,000 employees), it has become clear that few have deployed storage systems using solid state drives (SSD) with internal tiering. This surprises me given the performance improvements gained by using SSDs as the highest performing
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Lustre as a real storage system – - – Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-06-16In the high performance computing (HPC) world, Lustre serves as a clustered file system meeting needs for extremely large numbers of files and extremely large file sizes. The problem is, Lustre has been used primarily for “build your own” storage systems with questionable support. Xyratex has moved to solve this problem for HPC customers with
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Vendors’ Battling Business Units hurt customers most, Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns
2011-06-15Understanding storage technology can be difficult enough without vendors adding to the problem with odd product positioning. Yet vendors often make things worse when talking to customers or prospective customers. I recently had conversations with two IT professionals that brought to light this issue. The first one was looking at backup software for an optimization
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Best of need vs. best of breed, Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns
2011-06-10I was recently teaching a class on storage technology and systems to a group of IT professionals. I’m always interested in finding out what they know about storage products and what they hear about the market. I discussed with the class a story I recently read about an IT director commenting that he was interested in
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Don’t Turn Data Archiving into Hoarding — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-05-31Archiving has the potential to change individual behavior, depending on how it is implemented and introduced to data owners. An archiving system can prompt data owners to alter the way they handle their data, and this could unintentionally circumvent the reasons for the archiving system. To illustrate this, let’s take a real example from a
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InfoStor: The Amazon EC2 Outage: Lessons Learned — by Russ Fellows
2011-05-19By now most of us have heard about the Amazon EC2 outage that began on April 21st 2011. As typical, there will be finger pointing, placing blame in the weeks to come, and probably lawsuits. In the end, some people and businesses will concur that utilizing “The Cloud” is just too risky. I believe this
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Storage purchasing decisions should focus on functionality, economics, Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns
2011-05-18This is the season for vendors of storage systems, servers, software and networking equipment to hold events to show off their products and discuss their strategies. EMC World and Symantec Vision recently wrapped up, with more shows to follow. These events really do display the results of the hard work of talented people. Some products are
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EMC: The Platform Company — Data-Driven Blog by John Webster
2011-05-18It’s Monday morning at EMC World 2011 and EMC Chairman Joe Tucci opens the show with 10,000-plus in the audience. On stage with Tucci are big black boxes. What’s wrong with this picture? EMC is no longer a company that can be primarily characterized as a maker of big black boxes. Tucci has engineered a
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Free storage features, Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns
2011-05-11For years, storage systems have evolved with the addition of high value features. The features have become differentiating characteristics between the storage systems in many cases. They’ve also become in many cases requirements for any sophisticated storage array. These include: • snapshot point-in-time copies, • remote replication with synchronous and asynchronous transfers and support for
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Archiving’s Two Primary Use Cases – Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-05-05Data archiving is often incorrectly assumed to be an extension of backup. That’s mainly because earlier technology limitations necessitated the use of backup software to store data on devices. Storing information that is not frequently accessed but must be retained is archiving. An archiving system’s defining characteristics are speed of access, the cost of storing
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Questions Linger About Amazon Outage – - Data-Driven Blog by John Webster
2011-04-29Today, April 29, 2011, Amazon Web Services released a “summary” of its EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) and RDS (Relational Database Service) disruption in its U.S. East Region. This came approximately one week after what appears to be a classic example of a rolling disaster that occurred after someone incorrectly executed a communications network traffic shift
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Flash SSD Systems Redefine Storage Tiers — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-04-25The popularity of storage systems that support tiering within the box, driven primarily by NAND Flash solid state drives (SSDs), has created confusion about the meaning of storage tiering. While speaking to directors and CIOs of IT operations at a recent event, questions came up that illustrate this confusion. The common understanding of tiering for
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Evaluator Group Releases Summary Research on IT Management Storage Efficiency Measurement
2011-04-19Research is based on IT End Users and Storage Management Interviews on How IT Measures Calculates Storage Efficiency Boulder, CO, April 19, 2011: Evaluator Group publicly releases “Storage Efficiency, An IT Perspective,” as part of its Evaluation and Educational Series Guides. Evaluator Group has recognized that storage efficiency is an important topic of discussion with
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Processors for Storage Systems Follow Server/PC Roadmap — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-04-18Recent storage system launches – such as EMC’s Isilon roll-out last week – included new generations of Intel processors that provide greater processing power and increased performance. This has become a familiar pattern — the latest generations of processors become available, and soon after storage system announcements follow with the incorporation of the new processor
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SNW, the New, the Popular, the Next — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-04-13At SNW there is a chance to see what vendors want to inform the world about – from their product perspective. There are also presentations that are focused on education and general information for users of storage. This presents a contrast between the two and represents the fact that many times the adoption rate of
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Virtual-desktop Integration Touches all Professions — CNET Blog by John Webster
2011-04-07I recently gave a presentation at a small gathering of IT “enthusiasts” in Albany, N.Y. I say “enthusiasts” because the audience was an eclectic mix of IT technologists and people with advanced expertise in non-IT fields. For example, I met two people from an architectural firm, and neither was an IT administrator. One was an
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Evaluator Group Report Identifies Geminare as Rapid Enabler of Higher-Value Solutions for Cloud Service Providers
2011-04-06April 6th, 2011, Toronto, Canada: Evaluator Group (EGI), a premier analyst firm focused on computer storage technology, and a widely acknowledged provider of in-depth, technical research papers, today published a study entitled “Disaster Recovery in the Cloud – Geminare enhances Solution Provider offerings.” The comprehensive report examines the current market trends towards Cloud services, concluding,
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Storage buying requires an application perspective, Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns
2011-04-06Much information provided about storage systems reflects details about the specifications of the storage systems – known as speeds and feeds. This has been the norm, and if that information was not presented prominently, many would think the vendor is trying to focus attention away from flaws in its product. But times have changed, and
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Belluzzo takes Quantum leap from CEO job; COO Gacek steps up, Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns
2011-04-04Backup vendor Quantum switched CEOs today. Rick Belluzzo stepped down after nine years and Jon Gacek stepped up from his role as COO and president to replace him. Belluzzo remains chairman of Quantum’s board, and both men said the vendor’s goals remain the same under Gacek: to remain the leader in open systems tape libraries,
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Storage Area Networks Need Not Apply – Data Driven Blog by John Webster
2011-04-01Last week I attended the GigaOM Structure Big Data conference in New York City. Although my resume says I’m a storage analyst of long standing, this was not a storage conference. However, my e-mail inbox reminds me daily that storage vendors think “big data” spells big opportunity so I went to see how and how
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Establishing data relevance can help archiving strategy, Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns
2011-03-30As highlighted in many reports, the massive amounts of data being created today cause concerns for Information Technology pros – especially those who manage storage. These concerns involve how to process data, what to keep and where to put it. Issues include how to present the information, where to store data, what are the requirements
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Think of Dell as a Storage Portfolio Player – Data-Driven Blog by John Webster
2011-03-22Last year, Dell went on a storage buying spree. Dell took in Exanet for clustered, multiplatform NAS, Ocarina Networks for extensible, cross platform data compression and deduplication, capped-off with an announced agreement to acquire Compellent’s virtualized storage arrays and Fluid Data technology, which closed last month. All tallied, I estimate Dell spent nearly $1 billion
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Storage tiering draws interest, with good reason, Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns
2011-03-21Storage tiering has generated a good amount of interest lately, largely because of the performance improvements it can bring to organizations using solid state drives (SSDs) in their storage setups. When it comes to tiering, it’s worth listening to what storage vendors have to say. There are actual benefits, and several approaches with real competitive
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IT Pulse Shows the Shows the Importance of Storage IT, Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-03-16One of the things that I always pay attention to is the perception of storage both in the information technology industry and with customers. How critical storage is for successful IT is evident to me but that understanding seems to wax and wane with others. A very positive indicator of the importance was seen at
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Non-compliance Equals BIG Fines, Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-03-10The Department of Health and Human Services has levied a hefty fine of $4.3 Million against a Maryland health care provider for HIPAA violations – http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/hipaa-bares-its-teeth-43m-fine-privacy-violation-022311. This is a significant event and indicator for institutions and companies that deal with information that have regulations controlling access and defining the rules for storing and managing records.
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What’s next for unified storage? Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns
2011-03-01Unified storage has gone from a specialty item to something offered from nearly every storage vendor in recent years. In the beginning, vendors such as NetApp took added block capability to their file system storage and NetApp’s biggest rivals have since followed down that unified path. The evolution continues, however, and multiprotocol systems will likely
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Scale-out vs. scale-up: the basics
2011-02-23There’s been a lot of talk about scale-out and scale-up storage lately, and I get a sense that a lot of people don’t understand that these terms are not synonymous. And that causes confusion among IT professionals when they are planning product purchases and trying to determine how these types of products bring value versus
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Anatomy of Poor IT Buying Decisions – StorageSoup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-02-15I had an interesting conversation about IT decision-making while attending an education foundation meeting that was focused on education. The meeting was a chance to speak with CIOs and other senior IT people in a non-business setting. These discussions can be far-ranging and unguarded. In this non-sales, non-consultative environment, the discussion came around to the
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What IBM’s Watson Says to Storage Systems Developers, Blog by John Webster
2011-02-15IBM’s Watson debuted for a national prime time TV audience last night on CBS’ Jeopardy. Well, to be accurate, his avatar glowed behind his center-stage podium. He did however have a real button to push when he was ready to tee up a Jeopardy-formatted question-as-answer. The button was activated by a specially designed application running
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Automated tiering: Evaluating the criteria — InfoStor Article by Russ Fellows
2011-02-14There are several technology and marketing messages competing for headlines. The concepts that resonate are those that make life easier for IT users, lower costs, or do both. Storage tiering is gaining traction because it provides real value to users by lowering the administrative burden, improving performance, and reducing costs. This is especially true as
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Take a Hard (and soft) Look at Storage ROI Project Benefits — StorageSoup Blog by Randy Kerns
2011-02-10While working on a project for the IT organization of a large company recently, I began questioning the information it included in its Return On Investment (ROI) calculations. The organization used ROI as a measurement to buy storage as part of a storage efficiency project, but I found problems with the measurement based on what
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Shared Storage in a Shared Nothing Environment — Blog by John Webster
2011-02-09The computing industry is seeing dramatic growth in the use of “shared nothing” database architectures where each node functions independently of one another and is self-sufficient (Hadoop Distributed File System for example). For the sake of performance, contention among nodes for shared disk resources (SAN and NAS) is one of the things these architectures avoid
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Data center transformation and optimization aren’t the same, Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns
2011-02-01Two topics are of top of mind with IT managers and vendors today: data center transformation and data center optimization. These topics come up all the time in my discussions with CIOs and IT managers in regards to their initiatives, and also with vendors in their strategies to deliver solutions to meet demands. Unfortunately, some
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Host vs servers in open systems storage – Randy Kerns on Storage Soup Blog
2011-01-24While working on a product analysis for the recently launched EMC VNX multiprotocol storage systems, I picked up on something I’ve also seen in other recent vendor presentations. I’m seeing the word host commonly used to refer to the computing element that storage connects to, either directly or through a SAN. The word host takes
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Which Big Data are you talking about? CNET Data-driven Blog by John Webster
2011-01-24Late last year I posted a blog item about big data and if/when it would present opportunities for storage vendors. I concluded by saying that, while it was a bit early for next-year prognostications, I expected to see the number of storage devices aimed at analytics applications blossom in 2011 with more storage vendors pursuing
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Storage specialists giving way to IT generalists – Randy Kerns on Storage Soup Blog
2011-01-17When I meet with IT personnel or speak at events, I always try to find out what people are doing in their positions in IT. Finding out what their daily work entails gives a good barometer on what is happening in IT and helps to identify where the problems are. One trend I notice is
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Storage spending: the big picture, Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns
2011-01-10I’m always interested in reading stories about expectations for spending on storage. There are the continuing prediction stories where it is reported that next’s year’s spending will be x% up or down from last year. Those stories are interesting but not always illuminating. They remind me of an article I read about predicting the weather.
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New Orleans backup snafu shows inefficient data protection, Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns
2011-01-03The recent loss of mortgage records in Orleans Parish in New Orleans shows how important it is to have an efficient data protection process and efficient use of storage resources, and how the two are related. Newspaper articles in the New Orleans area highlight a double failure data loss. Successful backups stopped after an update
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Capellas led coalition making strides by the Vblock, John Webster Data-Driven blog
2010-12-20VCE most closely resembles a nonprofit organization in that it is totally funded by capital and equity contributions from the four coalition members. All revenue from Vblock sales and services is turned over to the partners based on their product contribution, i.e. EMC receives revenue for its storage and management software components, Cisco for its
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The next decade: Solving the big 3 IT problems — InfoStor Article by Russ Fellows
2010-11-29November 29, 2010 — The next decade will bring challenges in many areas of information technology. Although new ideas and technologies are constantly emerging, only those that can deliver real value to businesses and consumers will be successful. In working with IT consumers, Evaluator Group has identified several issues facing businesses — the so-called ‘big
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Does ‘Big Data’ equal big opportunity for storage vendors? John Webster’s data-driven Blog
2010-11-29Earlier this year, EMC surprised the storage community with its acquisition of Greenplum, a small producer of sophisticated software that can be used to both scale-out and accelerate data warehousing and business analytics applications. Its core technology is based on a convergence of Google’s MapReduce process, and SQL. The result is a business analytics engine
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EMC doubles down on the mainframe, CNET blog by John Webster
2010-11-12I’ll bet that, until November 10, 2010, you’d never heard of a company called Bus-Tech. Now that EMC has made them yet another acquisition target, you’re wondering why. In a statement quoted in the announcement release, Frank Slootman, President of EMC’s Backup Recovery Systems division, positioned Bus-Tech in mainframe backup and recovery: “The addition of
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Key management: Life, liberty and data security — InfoStor Article by Russ Fellows
2010-10-12October 12, 2010 — The ideas of liberty and security are often at odds with each other. In government and personal life, balancing these two ideals is a constant challenge. Within the world of information technology, providing freedom from any one vendor (i.e., liberty) is often at odds with protecting data using integrated, proven solutions.
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Unified or Un-unified? John Webster’s Data-Driven Blog
2010-10-11www.cnet.com/data-driven For years, storage vendors have been offering two types of disk storage: block and file. Block-based storage is commonly associated with SANs (storage area networks) while-file based storage is commonly referred to a NAS (network attached storage) and attached to Ethernet networks. Lately, the vendors of either flavor have developed an interest in selling
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Virtualization: The foundation for data center transformation — InfoStor Article by Russ Fellows
2010-10-04The concept of virtualization is nearly as old as computing itself. It has been applied with various degrees of success to computer memory access, processing, storage and networking. At its most fundamental level, virtualization does exist within all of these elements. However, virtualization is now beginning to be made visible at an external level. Rather
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How Hitachi’s Hu Yoshida Got the Last Word, blog post by John Webster
2010-09-29www.cnet.com/data-driven If you’re an Hitachi Data Systems storage customer, you by now know that HDS announcedits latest virtualized storage platform codemnamed Victoria, also known as the Virtualized Storage Platform or VSP. And if you were an HDS customer at the announcement event held Monday at the Santa Clara, Calif., Hyatt, then you would also have
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From IBM Netezza to the human brain, CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster
2010-09-24In 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 because IBM is paying $1.7 billion for a company that earned $4.2 million during its
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The Evaluator Group Joins RDX® Storage Alliance Supporting RDX Removable Disk Technology
2010-09-13Storage Analysts Build RDX Alliance Momentum Broomfield, CO (Businesswire) Sept. 13, 2010 — The RDX® Storage Alliance™ and Evaluator Group today announced that Evaluator Group Inc., a leading analyst firm providing comprehensive and objective analysis of storage systems and storage issues, has become a partner in the RDX Storage Alliance. The RDX Storage Alliance is a
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Evaluator Group broadens services — Randy Kerns joins Evaluator Group
2010-08-25Evaluator Group broadens services to cover growing market of Information Infrastructure Broomfield, CO (PRWEB) August 25, 2010 -Evaluator Group, Inc. announces the appointment of Randy Kerns to the position of Senior Strategist, effective August 23, 2010. Randy joins to lead strategic planning efforts for both end users and vendors. “We are fortunate to have Randy
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David Scott of 3Par, take a victory lap, CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster
2010-08-17It has been a long time coming, but virtualized storage is now a “must have” technology. Dell has announced its intent to acquire next-gen storage vendor 3Par for $1.15 billion, excluding 3Par’s cash and other considerations. With this acquisition, Dell continues to morph its business model to be more inclusive of computing systems and services
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The Public Cloud: Friend or Foe for Storage Vendors, John Webster blog post
2010-08-11www.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 to the number of yotta bytes they could sell. Storage users and data center storage
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Evaluator Group Announces Their Evaluator Series™ Advanced Storage Education
2010-07-13In Depth, Unbiased Course to be held at the Hyatt Regency in Bethesda, Maryland, Sept 28 – 30, 2010 Broomfield, CO (PRWEB) JULY 13 2010 — Evaluator Group, Inc. (EGI) has announced the return of their popular Advanced Storage Education Series, designed specifically for enterprise storage professionals. Over the years EGI has trained thousands of
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Storage considerations for VDI implementations — InfoStor Article by Russ Fellows and John Webster
2010-07-12Large enterprises have begun to move to a virtual desktop environment using a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Within the VDI environment, desktop applications and storage are centralized to IT operations, whether on-premise or outsourced. Virtual desktops are provided to application users when needed through the deployment of thin clients or through terminal services. Bringing desktop
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EMC builds new data computing division around Greenplum, CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster
2010-07-08EMC has announced it will acquire Greenplum, a data warehousing and business analytics software firm for an undisclosed sum. EMC will use this acquisition to form the basis of a new Data Computing Products Division led by Bill Cook, CEO of Greenplum, who will report to Pat Gelsinger, COO of EMC’s Information Infrastructure Products. To
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A challenge for storage entrepreneurs, CNET Data-drive blog by John Webster
2010-06-23The storage-focused BD Event wrapped up last week in Boston after two and a half days of presentations and networking for the enterprise storage industry–executives meeting up with executives in a kind of industry-focused, back to old college days mixer. If you’re an entrepreneur with designs on the enterprise storage market, this was the place
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A World Without Records, CNET blog by John Webster
2010-05-28In enterprise IT, it is common to find storage administrators who will tell you that the company’s default position in regard to data retention is to always store everything forever. Since that policy is hard if not impossible to sustain, enterprises have recently devised policies that allow them to throw some of it away. Suppose,
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A report from Compellent C-Drive, CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster
2010-05-12Compellent’s C-Drive event last week drew about 300 storage administrators and IT generalists to downtown Minneapolis one week before EMC World. While that’s small show by EMCWorld standards, it was a big event for Compellent customers. I have yet to meet a more evangelistic group of storage users. Compellent’s architecture creates a unique storage management
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The emergence of application-managed storage, CNET Blog by John Webster
2010-04-12Yesterday, I heard a story about a CIO of one of the big NYC-based financial services firms explaining to his audience what was delaying further virtualization of the firm’s application environment. The reason wasn’t related to hardware or software. Read the full blog www.cnet.com/data-driven.
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Evaluator Group Announces New Planning Documents for File Archiving
2010-03-17Analysis covers all major archiving vendors, designed to speed an IT Administrator’s selection process Broomfield, CO (PRWEB) March 17, 2010 — Evaluator Group, Inc. announced a new series of planning documents for File Archiving. The planning documents are designed for IT Storage Administrators to quickly and easily evaluate options for file archiving. Evaluator Group product
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EMC’s Gelsinger plans to deliver application fluidity, blog by John Webster
2010-03-12John Webster comments on the Pat Gelsinger, EMC’s COO for Information Infrastructure Products, recently imparted vision for the future of IT. Pat spoke to a group of analysts gathered in Hopkinton, Mass last week. Gelsinger, who now manages some of the company’s crown jewels like VMware and the storage products division, said EMC is out to change the
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Isilon back from near death, CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster
2010-02-15Last week, Isilon, which designs and sells clustered storage systems and software for digital content, announced the integration of STEC’s solid-state disk modules to its S- and X-Series or scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) platforms built on SAS and SATA disk arrays. The announcement was doubly significant. First, its marks the appearance of SSD implemented as
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Hello Oracle stack; bye-bye best of breed? CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster
2010-01-28For 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 doing an about-face with the multiple introductions of pre-integrated computing “stacks.” Soon, all of the
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Evaluator Group and Demartek Partner to Provide New Services
2010-01-26Evaluator Group and Demartek partner to provide in depth product analysis and Test Lab services Denver, CO (PRWEB) January 26, 2010. Evaluator Group, Inc. and Demartek, Inc. jointly announced a partnership that will result in the delivery of in-depth lab validation and benchmarking services to Evaluator Group’s end user and vendor clients. As Evaluator Group’s
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Storage Predictions for 2011, Blog by John Webster
2010-01-22My worthy competitors within the ranks of the storage analyst community have been out there for the last few weeks making predictions for 2010. Since I like to differentiate myself (and let’s face it, I’m a bit late to the 2010 prognostication party) I’ve decided instead to get a jump on next year. Here are
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Are we ready for IBM’s Smarter Planet? CNET Data-drived blog by John Webster
2010-01-08By now you’ve surely seen at least one of the IBM “Let’s Build a Smarter Planet” TV ads. I like them. They talk about computing possibilities that are truly big-picture. I also believe in the message that IBM is fundamentally delivering in these ads: systems that harvest data from a variety of wired and wireless
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CA’s ‘even a caveman can do it’ moment, CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster
2009-12-16Back in May of this year, CA introduced Mainframe Software Manager (MSM) to its mainframe customers and in a way, to the world of mainframe computing. MSM is for CA’s mainframe administrators what a software install wizard is for the rest of us. It greatly simplifies the process of installing and updating CA’s one hundred
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Evaluator Group, Inc. Announces Personnel Additions – Camberley Bates Joins Staff as Managing Director
2009-12-09Evaluator Group expands, adds new Managing Director Camberley Bates. Denver, CO (PRWEB) December 9, 2009 –Evaluator Group, Inc. announced the appointment of Camberley Bates to the position of Managing Director, effective December 1, 2009. Evaluator Group is an analyst organization recognized world-wide for insightful analysis and thought leadership service the for IT storage industry. Camberley
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The changing role of the IT storage pro, CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster
2009-12-03Recently I heard the chief information officer of a large technology company observe that the consolidation and convergence of IT infrastructure is forcing a consolidation and convergence within his own department. He observed that because platforms are converging around server virtualization projects and a future rollout of virtual desktops, narrowly focused IT administrative groups must
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Is IBM’s Blue Insight a model for your private BI cloud? CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster
2009-11-18There’s been a general outcry lately about how vendor marketing organizations are abusing the cloud by force-fitting many new and existing products into the cloud computing mold. Still, some cloud-like things actually do fit without the aid of a crow bar. A case in point is IBM’s Smart Analytics Cloud. The Smart Analytics Cloud is
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What integrated compute stacks mean for storage professionals, CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster
2009-11-06I ended my last blog post with “Integrate and prosper.” Little did I know that Cisco, EMC, and VMware were about to unveil a Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) early the following week, the biggest cross-vendor integration project yet seen in the world of computing. Yes there were rumors about a Cisco/EMC joint venture that would
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Will EMC’s rising tide float all storage boats? CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster
2009-10-29Given that the phrase “our current economy” has such a negative connotation, EMC’s third-quarter earnings report last week was downright upbeat. EMC surpassed its own optimistic guidance for the fiscal quarter just ended by 4 percent. Wow. Other phrases like “increasing confidence among customer in spending their IT budgets” and “very weak first quarter progressing
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What the T-Mobile outage means for consumers, CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster
2009-10-16At Storage Networking World in Phoenix this week, there was a buzz in the hallways and over breakfast tables about the T-Mobile Sidekick outage that was due, according to Microsoft, to “a system failure that created data loss in the core database and the back-up.” And why not? There are about 800 enterprise-level storage administrators
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Evaluator Group, Inc. Announces Personnel Additions – John Webster joins staff
2009-10-09Denver, CO (PRWEB) October 6, 2009 –Evaluator Group Inc. announces the appointment of John Webster to the position of Senior Partner, effective October 1, 2009. In addition, Randy Kerns has been elected to Evaluator Group’s board of directors. Evaluator Group is an analyst organization recognized world-wide for insightful analysis and thought leadership serving the IT
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MaxiScale and the emergence of software-defined storage, CNET Data-driven by John Webster
2009-10-07For the last two decades, RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) controllers have ruled the storage world. RAID has been required for data protection in disk arrays. RAID schemes (RAID 0,1,6 10, etc.) reside on RAID controllers baked into disk arrays with many billions sold to date. But perhaps more important from the standpoint of
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The remodeling of EMC’s executive office suite, CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster
2009-09-15Earlier this week, EMC revealed that it has attracted longtime Intel executive Pat Gelsinger to run its storage business. Gelsinger is set to become president and chief operating officer of EMC’s Information Infrastructure Products (virtually all in EMC’s product group except VMware), including the Enterprise Storage Division, RSA Information Security, Content Management and Archiving, and
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VMworld 2009: Great for storage vendors, CNET Data-drive blog by John Webster
2009-09-07For a storage guy, last week’s VMworld 2009 in San Francisco was a great show. All the familiar storage vendors were there and then some. Walking the show floor, I found them to be uniformly positive about traffic and the response they were getting from attendees. Digging a bit deeper I found that storage vendors
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Georgens takes command at NetApp, CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster
2009-08-24NetApp’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, but he may be remembered most for turning the small niche-market opportunity that NAS once
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How long is long-term storage? CNET Data-drive blog by John Webster
2009-08-13There is a big disconnect between how long people think they should be storing data and how long they actual can. One group of vendors and academics is trying to change that. Two years ago, the Storage Networking Industry Association’s Data Management Forum reported the results of a landmark study that looked at the state
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We’ve signed a partner to sell our product, what now? Part III in a series on channel marketing, a blog by Camberley Bates
2009-05-19So much time is spent recruiting partners, so that once they are signed, what then? The company conducts a training, points the partner to the website and says call us when you need help. The sales person calls on a bi-weekly basis to find out their sales forecast. Months go by and nothing is in the pipeline.
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Is your company channel ready? Part II in a series on channel marketing, a blog by Camberley Bates
2009-05-12When you get ready to enter the channel, whether a test run or full court press, you need to assess if the company and your products are ready. Much like assessing the readiness for a product for launch, a company needs to address requirements needed for the channel to sell and implement. Those that launch
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So you want to expand with a channel strategy…, a blog by Camberley Bates
2009-05-04At some point most companies decide to engage a channel or third party sales strategy. There are a myriad of reasons to engage. It could be an early stage company looking to for a route to market or a hot product that just needs to get the products on the shelf and in front of
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