Returning to the Office – Kicking and Screaming

By Randy Kerns, Tuesday, April 11th 2023

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What about returning to the office for work?  Here is a bit of perspective based upon experiences in meeting with companies over the last eighteen months.  There are several circumstances or categories that I have observed for my meetings: -My...

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HPE GreenLake Storage Announcements – April 2023

By Randy Kerns, Thursday, April 6th 2023

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Written by: Randy Kerns, Dave Raffo, and Krista Macomber HPE GreenLake Storage Strategy HPE has broadened the scope of GreenLake Storage beyond its original premise of offering an opex buying option for traditional storage, and managing it as a service....

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How NAB Provides Insight into Information Storage

By Randy Kerns, Wednesday, April 5th 2023

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The News: NAB, the National Association of Broadcasters conference taking place in Las Vegas on April 15-19 is a showcase for all things related to broadcasting and video production. While not specifically identified with broadcasting and video, information storage is...

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The Importance of Keeping Up with Technology and Thoughts on Making a Plan for IT Teams to Help Accomplish That

By Randy Kerns, Wednesday, March 29th 2023

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It seems like technology changes are accelerating. At least that is the refrain I get from working with IT professionals. The adoption rate of new technology is always slower than what may be expected. The reality is that technology changes...

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Changing Storage Vendors – Object Storage

By Randy Kerns, Tuesday, March 14th 2023

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“Migration is Hard” – “Data is Heavy” Data migration is moving data from one storage system to another where the storage system could be on-premises or in a public cloud. Usually with object storage, there is a large amount of...

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IBM Makes a Number of Storage-Focused Announcements

By Randy Kerns, Monday, March 6th 2023

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The News: Last week IBM made a number of announcements at a special event in New York City that were focused on storage. There were three primary areas in the announcement, as well as an explanation of IBM’s focus on...

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Panasas, Hammerspace, and StorMagic Featured in London at A3 Communications Technology Live!

By Randy Kerns, Tuesday, February 28th 2023

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The News: Three vendors presented at the A3 Communications Technology Live! event in London, which is focused on enabling the discussion between the industry and its influencers, providing an update on business and products. The presentations covered the company status...

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VP of IT and other IT Job Titles – What’s in a Name

By Randy Kerns, Wednesday, February 22nd 2023

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There is a job title recently pointed out to me for IT organizations that I was unfamiliar with: VP of Enterprise and Data Architecture. There is dissonance if this is looked at literally. Rather than examine the specifics of this...

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Why Data Management is on the CIO’s List of Priorities

By Randy Kerns, Friday, February 17th 2023

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As an obvious statement, what information is being kept by an IT organization is important to know. There are a number of aspects about “knowing” that include specific details: Where the information is stored. There probably will be multiple copies,...

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Object First Announces OOTBI – Object Storage for Veeam Backups

By Randy Kerns, Thursday, February 16th 2023

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The News: Object First has announced General Availability of their object storage system targeted specifically for Veeam backups. The object storage system, which Object First calls a backup appliance, has two models of 64TB and 128TB and can scale to...

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