Highlights of the newsletter: Register for our popular Strategies and Solutions course on March 8-10th in Boulder, Colorado. Eric Slack, Sr. Analyst, compares the cost of hyper-converged systems and the public cloud in a free white paper and Evaluator Group releases research on Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Flash Storage Product. 
Storage Journal, February 2016
What's up this month? Register for our Information Technology - Strategies and Solutions   Class - US: March 8-10th; Germany Feb 29th – Mar 2nd; Netherlands April 11th-13th. Just released, free white paper: Is Hyperconverged Cost-Competitive with the Cloud? by Senior Analyst Eric Slack and new premium coverage on HDS Flash Storage system. 

Information Technology - Strategies and Solutions 
Evaluator Group will be teaching a 3-day Advanced Storage Education course in Boulder, Colorado from March 8-10th, 2016. For registration information and to download the full syllabus, please visit the class page on our website here. 

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Evaluator Group grows depth of coverage with Open Storage Platform (OSP) research. Click here to read the executive summary and find all OSP research here.

New Research Highlights 
Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Flash Storage Product Brief
Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Flash Storage Product Analysis
Are x86 Servers the Right Platform for Running Mission Critical Applications?  - Free White Paper
Is Hyperconverged Cost-Competitive with the Cloud?
 
The Cloud is now mainstream. Whether it’s email, backup or file sharing, most consumers probably use a cloud service or two. Many companies have moved at least some of their information technology processes into the cloud. In fact, the cloud has become so popular it’s easy to assume that running IT applications on-premises is not cost competitive with a cloud-based service. In this report Evaluator Group will test the validity of that assumption with a TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) model analyzing a hyperconverged appliance solution from SimpliVity and a comparable cloud service from Amazon Web Services (AWS).
 
Information Technology - Strategies and Solutions: March 8-10th, Boulder, Colorado

Storing, accessing, and protecting information is critical for organizations and Information Technology professionals are tasked with delivering strategies and solutions. This course will cover the problems and solutions for information storage, explaining the technology employed and the different systems available. From this course, solutions using storage technologies implemented in products with their architectures, features, benefits and issues will be explored with a goal of understanding a strategy to deal with information demands.
 
New and Updated Research

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Product Comparison Matrices

Evaluator Group maintains up-to-date comparison matrices and, once a year, conducts a major review of all storage products to add new relevant functionality and assure all data is accurate. ​All product comparison matrices have now been updated for 2016. 

Hyperconverged Research Solid State Research  ​Object Storage Research
Storage Vendor News Round-Up 

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