This is Part 1 of this blog series. Read Part 2 here. Changing storage vendors is a decision that is not taken without careful consideration by IT professionals. There are a number issues when changing vendors: operational changes required, different...
Read More »Evaluator Group Take on AWS Storage Day File Storage Enhancements AWS File Cache Due Later in 2022 Although data protection and resiliency was the main focus of news at AWS Storage Day 2022 last week, the public cloud giant also...
Read More »Evaluator Group Take on AWS Storage Day Data Protection Announcements AWS and the Shared Responsibility Model AWS Storage Day 2022 highlighted data protection, and in particular the differences and simultaneous need for both application and data resiliency. This topic is...
Read More »Over the past few years, Storage Class Memory (SCM) has become synonymous with Intel’s Optane technology – due to Intel’s role in pioneering the technology (alongside partner Micron), and a strong marketing campaign to promote the technology under the “Optane”...
Read More »For years, software solutions offering centralized management of heterogenous systems have received little respect from the market. Offerings provided by major systems vendors were viewed as doing nothing more than patching holes in the vendor’s underlying products, while competing offerings...
Read More »Kubernetes is here, and it is here to stay. According to Evaluator Group primary research, not only are most enterprises already using or planning to use Kubernetes, they are using Kubernetes for production workloads. We typically associate container environments and...
Read More »Prevention 1) Verify all security settings for systems – access and administration at all level, software including operating systems and applications, networks, and other management/monitoring tools. A plan for auditing and regular updating of security settings should be developed and...
Read More »Developers using CNS need data management – they are less interested in what type of storage media they are pinning their data to Two products in the emerging cloud-native storage (CNS) market have undergone name changes in 2021, providing a...
Read More »Nutanix is in a state of transition and hopes that new partnerships with the likes of AWS, Azure, Red Hat and Citrix will help it reach its goal of a unversal platform that runs traditional or modern applications. No vendor...
Read More »Incidents that have been made public about ransomware have garnered a great deal of attention – from the general public, company executives, and from those charged with protecting and recovering from attacks. Products used in Information Technology have been improved...
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