Highlights of the newsletter: In a new blog post, Eric Slack, Sr. Analyst, discusses the parallels of Apple products and hyperconverged appliances. John Webster, Sr. Analyst, gives insight in enterprise cloud usage with his survey of surveys Industry Insight paper. Plus, new roundtable video on the future of Solid State. 
Storage Journal, April 2016
What's up this month? Just released, free Industry Insight paper: Enterprise Cloud "Survey of Surveys" . Plus, a new blog post on the 'Apple of IT' and hyperconverged appliances and a roundtable video on the future of Solid State

Analyst Roundtable Discussion:
The Future of Solid State

Evaluator Group sits down for a candid discussion on what to expect with Solid State technology over the next 12-24 months. Watch the discussion here

Attend SNIA's Data Storage Innovation (DSI) Conference

Camberley Bates, Managing Director, will be emceeing the general sessions and Eric Slack, Sr. Analyst, will be presenting Hyperconverged research findings. For more information on registration and for an exclusive discount code, click here .

Updated Research Highlights 
Pure Storage FlashArray Product Brief
Pure Storage FlashArray Product Analysis
EMC ScaleIO Product Brief
The Apple of IT
 
Blog post by Eric Slack, Senior Analyst
Several years ago, while working at a storage systems manufacturer, I was tasked by the CEO to do a research project for marketing. He had just bought an iPhone and was curious about Apple’s widespread popularity in the laptop market, their ability to sell essentially the same product to very different groups of people. Through this project I learned a lot about Macs and the characteristics that drove their seemingly universal appeal. What’s interesting are the parallels between Apple products and another hot commodity in the IT world today, hyperconverged appliances.
 
Industry Insight: Enterprise Cloud "Survey of Surveys"

Earlier this year, the Evaluator Group undertook a project to aggregate publicly available survey data on enterprise cloud usage. Our objective was to determine the current “state” of enterprise cloud computing by combining and analyzing this data that is publically available from multiple sources.

Enterprise Cloud is one of the most if not the most surveyed topic in enterprise IT today. This is true we believe because cloud computing now impacts nearly every IT vendor. It is reshaping the face of IT and its impact will be felt for years to come.

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. Plus, changes reflect the latest announcements for solid state systems, SAN - Midrange and hyperconverged systems. 

Hyperconverged Research Solid State Research  SAN Research Open Storage Platform Research
Storage Vendor News Round-Up 
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