Who Competes With VMware Now? – Forbes Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Thursday, September 8th 2016

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Yesterday, September 7, 2016, the EMC² logo disappeared. It’s hard for me to imagine that one of the greatest tech marketing companies of all time is suddenly gone. Yes, I know it lives on under Dell Technologies as DellEMC, but the...

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An Enterprise Cloud ‘Survey of Surveys’ – Forbes Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Wednesday, May 4th 2016

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John Webster recently published a report on "Survey of Surveys'.  The Blog summarizes his findings or download the free report: Industry Insight: Cloud Survey of Surveys Enterprise Cloud adoption is one of the most–if not the most–surveyed topics in enterprise IT...

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It’s Hard to Pick Cloud Winners and Losers (But You Should Try) – Forbes Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Monday, March 7th 2016

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Cloud computing discussions often turn to the future of cloud—even with my relatives. Over Christmas dinner last year, a lively debate erupted over whether or not all company-owned and operated IT would eventually disappear. One in-law who is a CFO...

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The Rebirth of Parallel I/O – Forbes Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Thursday, December 10th 2015

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The transition from a dependence on rotating disk to solid-state storage is under way. And as the cost per unit of solid state storage capacity inevitably decreases, enterprise IT is now getting the message that an investment in solid state...

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Are All Public Clouds Created Equally? – Forbes Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Wednesday, November 18th 2015

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Cloud computing is often spoken of in “as a service” terms like IT as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, Software as a Service, and Platform as a Service. And each has its well know XaaS acronym to go along...

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Is Hadoop ‘In Production’ Or Not? – Forbes Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Friday, October 16th 2015

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“In production” is a phrase often used by enterprise data center administrators to delineate applications and system that are used to support an organization’s day-to-day operations from those in a status that is something else—in test for example. And reaching...

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Dell/EMC — A Retrospective View — Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Tuesday, October 13th 2015

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It’s hard for me to imagine that EMC—the company with the most formidable sales machine in tech—is now to be acquired by Dell. Rewind to twenty-five years ago when EMC had an interesting but not necessarily advanced enterprise storage array...

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No More Great Innovations? blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Thursday, August 6th 2015

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A debate among economists has been brewing over whether or not humanity will continue to innovate at the pace experienced over the last 150 years—a time that produced automobiles, mass distribution of electricity, radio, television, and the Internet to name...

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The Two Faces of Flash Storage Buyers — Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Wednesday, July 29th 2015

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Storage vendors of many sizes now offer all-flash storage arrays. Indeed, some of the dominant enterprise storage vendors now lead customer presentations with their all-flash arrays in new storage purchase discussions with customers. It’s the right thing to do strategically...

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OpenStack Summit 2015: Decomposing Four Misconceptions – Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Friday, May 22nd 2015

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I’ve just returned from OpenStack Summit 2015 in Vancouver where 6000+ software-defined attendees convened to contribute and commune and where the opening keynote speaker laid down the following proclamation: Every company is becoming a software company and every company has to write...

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