Eric Savitz, Forbes San Francisco bureau chief posted a very informative piece on the proposed Dell LBO that had been rumored for weeks and finally announced yesterday. The links he provides to documents Dell submitted to the SEC as part of its 8K filing are particularly...
Read More »Information Technology (IT) organizations must continue to innovate and advance their capabilities to deliver services more economically. Without making progress, competitive pressures will overtake IT with the following results: • The potential to be outsourced will become greater with the...
Read More »Taking a step back and looking at the new or updated storage systems coming out reinforces trends I see for storage hardware in the industry. By storage hardware, I’m referring to physical system components such as the controller cards, processors...
Read More »[caption id="attachment_5197" align="alignleft" width="274" caption="Courtesy of Wildlife Direct"][/caption] Too many years ago, I grew an IT service organization from $10 to 100M in revenue. We did not resell hardware, rather chose to focus on vertical expertise and software (JD Edwards)...
Read More »This week’s Facebook-initiated Open Compute Summit has been depicted by TechCrunch blogger Alex Williams as an event that benefits Facebook first and foremost as it builds out its data source business model. His well-written post basically says that significant revenue growth for Facebook can come...
Read More »In the trade press recently and in some very public announcements, there are notifications about companies having a change in CEO. The changes are usually simply worded about the CEO being replaced with information about the new CEO. Sometimes the...
Read More »A two-tier data archiving approach can help free primary storage capacity, reduce expenses from regular data protection, and meet compliance or business requirements for specific data. A two-tier strategy divides archive data based on the probability of accessing that data. Archive data...
Read More »Leah Schoeb writes on measuring and comparing Solid-State performance for Storage Magazine. Read the StorageMagazine Article
Read More »As CES kicks off, someone who follows the progress of Hadoop could well wonder where Hadoop fits—as an enabler of consumer-focused apps, an enhancer of enterprise business intelligence, or both. It is now clear that Hadoop has enabled the growth...
Read More »We recently queried some large enterprise IT storage architects about planned storage acquisitions in the next 12 months. The answer from one storage architect of a top-five financial institution was “ZERO, Nada, None. The CIO has told us there will...
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