Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions abound in IT these days. They’re easy to set up and run, more powerful than ever and highly flexible, making them a popular choice for supporting a wide range of individual applications. And in many companies...
Read More »There’s a new word cropping up in the storage industry, more often in presentations than in published writing (possibly because spell check doesn’t work while one’s giving a presentation). That word is “performant” and, although not actually a word, it’s...
Read More »Backup is a tough job, one that touches essentially all of a company’s important data - and duplicates much of it. To make this job easier and more efficient, backup technologies have changed a lot over the years with snapshots,...
Read More »Scalability in IT systems is a fundamental requirement. Most compute environments need to grow, or at least have that capability as business expands, etc., so infrastructure choices are often made based on products’ abilities to meet this demand for resources....
Read More »Several years ago, while working at a storage systems manufacturer, I was tasked by the CEO to do a research project for marketing involving looking into activites such as buying high retention youtube views, and other social media services. He...
Read More »As a Coloradoan, I was greatly pleased to see the purchase of SolidFire by NetApp, another data storage success in our state. But I was concerned when I read an article last week about how X-IO, the storage manufacturer in...
Read More »First came the Converged Infrastructure (CI), providing a way to simplify the integration of open systems components in large data centers. Then came Hyperconverged, which sounds like an even better solution for these same use cases, but really isn’t. Where...
Read More »Way back in the dot.com bubble, the idea of running applications over the internet was born. Companies sprouted up all over Silicon Valley that offered all sorts of services essentially running in a cloud, although it wasn’t called “the cloud”...
Read More »Once upon a time (not that long ago) consolidation was all the rage in IT. Big arrays and “big iron” were the order of the day as networked storage (SAN and NAS) systems took over from direct-attached storage (DAS). IT...
Read More »Trickle-down is a term we heard a lot in the early 80s. It was used to describe an economics concept whereby prosperity would translate from the upper to lower income brackets (trickle down), through general business expansion driving job creation...
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