“Solving Big Data Problems” DSI 2015 Presentation from John Webster

By John Webster, Friday, April 10th 2015

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John Webster delivered the presentation Solving Big Data Problems at SNIA’s Data Storage Innovation conference on Thursday, April 9. If you weren’t able to catch his presentation live, view his slides here on-demand.

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Software Defined Storage Needs a More Clearly Defined Value Proposition, Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Monday, April 6th 2015

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Software Defined Storage Needs a More Clearly Defined Value Proposition The Software Defined Storage (SDS) model in its early days was often compared to Software Defined Networking (SDN). Both used virtualization as a foundational technology and replaced hardware constructs with software...

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In-Memory Computing & the Emergence of Tier-1 Storage: Forbes.com blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Thursday, January 29th 2015

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We’ve been watching the advance of solid state disk (SSD) as its ever improving price for capacity metrics make it an attractive replacement for relatively slow, spinning, mechanical disk media. Disk drive manufactures like Hitachi saw this coming years ago...

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Is It Time for Hadoop Alternatives? Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Monday, December 8th 2014

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Hadoop has progressed from a large scale, batch-oriented analytics tool used by a handful of webscalers to a multi-application processing platform for webscale and enterprise users. The vendors of Hadoop’s three major distributions uniformly characterize it as a modern architecture...

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Software Defined Storage Disruption? When Commodity Storage Refuses to Remain Commodity, blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Monday, November 24th 2014

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Defining IT with software is assumed to be a disruptive force. Reduce the cost of infrastructure by throwing out the high cost, purpose-built and proprietary hardware. Replace it with commodity priced-white boxes that are transformed into server, networking, and storage...

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NetApp’s New Data Fabric Strategy, Forbes.com blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Wednesday, November 5th 2014

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Last week, NetApp chose its Insight customer/partner conference to make a number of product announcements that, taken together, mark a multifaceted expansion into public, private, and hybrid cloud deployments. At the heart of these announcements is NetApp’s Data Fabric strategy that marks another milestone in...

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Data: To Own or Not To Own – Forbes.com blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Tuesday, September 2nd 2014

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In a recent blog post I noted that the average enterprise data center saves all data forever. For many of the storage administrators at these data centers, that’s petabytes of data growing at the compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30%...

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Enterprise Data Storage and IoT — Time for a Reality Check

By John Webster, Thursday, July 31st 2014

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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....

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TCO for Software Defined Storage — Known or Unknown? Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Friday, July 25th 2014

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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....

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Hitachi Data Systems Executes Another Transformation: Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Wednesday, June 25th 2014

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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...

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