Much information provided about storage systems reflects details about the specifications of the storage systems – known as speeds and feeds. This has been the norm, and if that information was not presented prominently, many would think the vendor is...
Read More »Backup vendor Quantum switched CEOs today. Rick Belluzzo stepped down after nine years and Jon Gacek stepped up from his role as COO and president to replace him. Belluzzo remains chairman of Quantum’s board, and both men said the vendor’s...
Read More »Last week I attended the GigaOM Structure Big Data conference in New York City. Although my resume says I'm a storage analyst of long standing, this was not a storage conference. However, my e-mail inbox reminds me daily that storage...
Read More »As highlighted in many reports, the massive amounts of data being created today cause concerns for Information Technology pros – especially those who manage storage. These concerns involve how to process data, what to keep and where to put it....
Read More »Last year, Dell went on a storage buying spree. Dell took in Exanet for clustered, multiplatform NAS, Ocarina Networks for extensible, cross platform data compression and deduplication, capped-off with an announced agreement to acquire Compellent's virtualized storage arrays and Fluid...
Read More »Storage tiering has generated a good amount of interest lately, largely because of the performance improvements it can bring to organizations using solid state drives (SSDs) in their storage setups. When it comes to tiering, it’s worth listening to what...
Read More »One of the things that I always pay attention to is the perception of storage both in the information technology industry and with customers. How critical storage is for successful IT is evident to me but that understanding seems to...
Read More »The Department of Health and Human Services has levied a hefty fine of $4.3 Million against a Maryland health care provider for HIPAA violations - http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/hipaa-bares-its-teeth-43m-fine-privacy-violation-022311. This is a significant event and indicator for institutions and companies that deal with...
Read More »Unified storage has gone from a specialty item to something offered from nearly every storage vendor in recent years. In the beginning, vendors such as NetApp took added block capability to their file system storage and NetApp’s biggest rivals have...
Read More »There’s been a lot of talk about scale-out and scale-up storage lately, and I get a sense that a lot of people don’t understand that these terms are not synonymous. And that causes confusion among IT professionals when they are...
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