Over the last year we have seen a new type of storage player enter the Enterprise IT market. This group includes names that we’ve known as component players tucked inside the systems (think Intel inside), but are now entering the...
Read More »Several months ago, Evaluator Group joined the webinar service BrightTalk to provide educational content on storage. Reading through BrightTalk’s list of past and upcoming summits (day-long webinar events), we noticed they had content on nearly every major new storage technology...
Read More »Evaluator Group’s Hot Topics for Storage In February we are launching a webinar series on hot topics in the storage space. Outside of our Advanced Storage Education classes, most of our work is 1:1 with our IT clients. With the...
Read More »Whose making the storage decisions now? Five years ago it was pretty straight forward. The person buying storage was the Storage Architect, influenced by the Storage Admin with a budget approved by the direct line bosses, depending on how much was...
Read More »[caption id="attachment_11341" align="alignleft" width="187"] Weakest link[/caption] Several weeks ago I penned a blog on “Converged, Is It a Fad or Real” regarding the adoption of Converged Systems. This spawned a discussion amongst some vendor sales and marketing teams in regards...
Read More »As a long time mainframe (and mini-computer) person, when the new converged systems hit the market, I felt it was throw back Thursday. Stop the presses, the open systems have gone amuck, we systems that do not require integration, testing...
Read More »This week another special purchasing model was announced, as Violin Memory rolled out its Pay-as-you-go model. There seems to be multiple financing options (or re-introduction), representative of the tightening of CAPEX budgets around IT. Violin Memory, needing to re-establish a...
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Read More »In my recent tour of discussions, converged is one of the latest buzz words. Frankly, I usually poo-poo buzz words, but in this case I am a proponent because this one has distinct value. Converged as we see it includes...
Read More »Last fall I wrote a post on the pronouncement we heard a CIO make to his IT group on adding more storage capacity in 2013: “No New Storage, use what you’ve got.” The reasoning for this decision was twofold: First,...
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