Analyst Blogs

Cloud-Native Storage Takes a Data-First Focus – Data Center Knowledge Blog by Dave Raffo

By Dave Raffo, Thursday, December 2nd 2021

Analyst Blogs

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...

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Nutanix Expands Partnerships to Embrace Cloud, Containers – ITPro Today Blog by Dave Raffo

By Dave Raffo, Friday, October 1st 2021

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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...

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Ransomware Exposes Needs About Data

By Randy Kerns, Wednesday, September 29th 2021

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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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Cloud Storage Is Now A Big Deal – AWS OEM’s NetApp ONTAP – Forbes Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Monday, September 13th 2021

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The Deal On September 2, 2021, AWS announced the availability of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. This new AWS FSx file storage service will deliver the complete functionality of NetApp ONTAP delivered as a fully managed public cloud storage service. Initially, the...

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Why “Joint Warfighter Cloud” Is Good For Enterprise IT – Forbes Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Thursday, July 22nd 2021

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Two years ago, the US Department of Defense awarded a contract to Microsoft to develop a cloud computing capability called the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure. However, JEDI as it became known, was controversial from the start. The competitors, AWS and...

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Storage Performance for Cloud Native Applications

By Russ Fellows, Tuesday, July 20th 2021

Analyst Blogs

We talk with our IT clients on a regular basis, and also conduct primary research into emerging IT trends.  One of the leading trends we hear is the adoption and deployment of cloud native applications, including containers and Kubernetes, and...

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Container-Native Storage: What you need to know

By Dave Raffo, Monday, May 24th 2021

Analyst Blogs

Storage for containers is rapidly becoming a requirement for IT teams, following years of developers adopting containers for their applications. Now that those apps are in production, they need persistent storage and enterprise grade storage features. The Evaluator Group sees...

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The Future of Optane and Persistent Memory

By Russ Fellows, Monday, March 29th 2021

Analyst Blogs

Prelude This blog was not sponsored or suggested to me by any 3rd party, the thoughts and opinions are mine, based upon my experience using and testing these technologies with a variety of environments and applications. What prompted me to...

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Battle For Cloud Dominance – Who Comes After Jassy At AWS? – Forbes Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Friday, March 5th 2021

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Andy Jassy is Amazon’s new CEO. Now for the real question no one is yet asking: Who will succeed Jassy? Jassy built Amazon Web Services from the ground up to become what it is today – the number 1 leader...

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IBM Spins-Out A Multi-Billion Dollar Goliath – Forbes Blog by John Webster

By Nick Waterhouse, Tuesday, February 2nd 2021

Analyst Blogs

In October of last year, IBM announced its intent to spinout the Managed Infrastructure Services group from IBM’s Global Technology Services (GTS) division. The new IT outsourcing entity, named NewCo for now, will focus on managing IT infrastructure on behalf...

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