VMworld 2018 drew a crowd of approximately 20,000, down 10,000 from last year’s attendance of 30,000. Why the fall-off in attendance isn’t exactly clear, but containers and public clouds are possibilities. Both are surfacing as potential threats to VMware’s dominating...
Read More »I attended VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas the week of August 27th, 2018. As every year there is a lot more going at the conference than just VMware. Many storage vendors are present to show off their new technology and...
Read More »Data is critical to organizations and companies is a conclusion reached by most everyone. In the different groups, there is wide variation in what is required to provide the necessary infrastructure to store, access, and manage information. Decisions to implement...
Read More »[Compute-centric] In the early days of High-Performance Computing (HPC) the concept of solving complex problems was driven by how much processing power was available to achieve the goal all within a reasonable amount of time. At the same time the...
Read More »Cloud computing ushered in an increased appreciation and appetite for treating enterprise computing infrastructure as an operating expense (OPEX). The pay-as-you-go model works for off-site computing resources so why not on-site as well? “Why not just make it all OPEX,”...
Read More »The move towards “integrated” systems, IT infrastructures designed around ease of deployment and scaling, is real as organizations strive to reduce costs and maintain the ability to support their dynamic IT environments. Hyperconverged (HCI) wasn’t the first open systems integrated technology...
Read More »Back in March, we published a blog about the research we were doing around scale-out data protection appliances. I’m happy to report that we have now published this information and it’s available as a new research area on our website. ...
Read More »[HPC] High-Performance Computing (HPC) became popular in the ‘60s with governments and academics who required to solve large computational problems and could afford to take advantage of the advancements in computer technology. Until then most of the complex problems were...
Read More »I ended my last Copy Data Management (CDM) blog with several follow-on questions about the CDM market we are evaluating. But before moving forward with those questions, I wanted to add to the first discussion based on feedback from that...
Read More »This is the fourth year I have hosted the SuperWomen in Flash, an event that recognizes and encourages the engagement of women in our industry. We have done this with a panel and social event. This year we are adding...
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