Data Management’s Expanding Requirements The term “Data Management” has become a popular phrase within the IT industry over the past few years, and for good reason. When considering massive data capacities, data sprawling out from the datacenter to the edge...
Read More »A major highlight of the recent NetApp Insight event was the introduction of BlueXP – NetApp’s new hybrid cloud management solution. BlueXP is a re-branding, as well as an expansion of NetApp’s previous Cloud Manager solution, and looks to be...
Read More »Applications at the so-called Far Edge often deliver a high return on investment, whether they’re driving more efficient oil extraction, virtual reality shopping or a more effective (and safer) factory floor. But these deployments are complex and challenging to deploy...
Read More »Adoption of Kubernetes is tipping to the mainstream, with more than half of enterprises currently using Kubernetes in production according to recent Evaluator Group research. As these environments become stateful and run critical business services, IT and platform operations teams...
Read More »This is the third KubeCon I have attended in person. The first was in Los Angeles during the fall of 2021 (a first for most during the Covid period). LA was lightly attended for obvious reasons, and could be characterized...
Read More »While not mainly a storage show, KubeCon always provides a window into how the storage landscape for containers is shaping up. KubeCon 2022 in Detroit last week was no exception. There were few substantial storage launches during the conference, but...
Read More »Recently we have been doing quite a bit of database testing in the Evaluator Group labs, using a variety of hardware and storage systems. We noticed some performance issues which reminded me that I needed to write a blog on...
Read More »This is Part 3 of this blog series. Read Part 2 here. This is the third installment in a series about considerations for IT in changing storage vendors and storage systems. Changing storage vendors is a decision that is not...
Read More »This is Part 2 of this blog series. Read Part 1 here. This is the second in a series about considerations for IT in changing storage vendors and storage systems. Changing storage vendors is a decision that is not taken...
Read More »In-Production Kubernetes Use Expanding Kubernetes-managed containers have escaped the confines of application development and pilot projects and are expanding rapidly in full production. EG’s recent survey of container management revealed that Kubernetes is in production at over 50% of surveyed...
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