A common practice among the purveyors of Enterprise IT storage is to begin a product pitch with the following admonition: “Stored data volumes are growing at explosive rates!” Therefor Mr. Customer, you need our product to manage this explosive growth, or else....
Read More »In a recent blog post on Software Defined Storage (SDS) I mentioned that, while the model was attractive from the standpoint of lowering the upfront cost of enterprise storage, pricing models across SDS vendors are still a work in progress....
Read More »In many ways, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) is emblematic of a storage industry that is grappling with the need to quickly make a transition to new business models. Why? The storage industry has suddenly become a convergence zone for many...
Read More »On June 5, 2014, Fusion-io executives invited industry analysts to a one-day product announcement and company strategy update. Eleven days later, SanDisk announced that it intended to acquire Fusion-io for $1.1B in cash as it builds out its enterprise flash and solid...
Read More »Vendors of enterprise storage arrays (EMC, HDS, HP, IBM, NetApp) are all riding the Software Defined Storage (SDS) bandwagon to one degree or another. IBM says that its enterprise storage product line will over time become increasingly software defined. EMC’s ViPR SDS platform is...
Read More »Toshiba recently announced that it will begin demolishing its No. 2 semiconductor fabrication facility, the company’s NAND Flash memory plant, and replace it with a new fab facility on the same site. Why? According to Toshiba: “The primary purpose of...
Read More »If you were to ask the average enterprise data center administrator how long their organization save its data, the quick answer would be “forever.” It’s been that way for years, in fact decades. Knowingly throwing away data is something that...
Read More »I’m reading some handwriting on the wall. It says that revenue growth for the storage array platforms commonly used in enterprise data centers will be hard to come by in 2014. I say this knowing full well that more data is being...
Read More »Tis the season for forecasting as pundits prove their worth by predicting the future—at least into the following year. As an industry analyst I often feel compelled to write these, usually with little regard for what I said the year...
Read More »Within enterprise data centers, Hadoop is a shiny new toy—the same place where the mainframe is sometimes thought of as a dinosaur. Yet the two have some things in common. Both are used as large scale, high performance batch processing...
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