As cloud computing progresses forward, an ages-old problem for IT is resurfacing—how to integrate and secure data stores that are disbursed geographically and across a growing diversity of applications. Data silos, which have always limited an organizations ability to extract...
Read More »The Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) segment continued to grow throughout 2017. Evaluator Group research in this area expanded in 2017 as well, adding products from NetApp, Lenovo and IBM. In this blog we’ll review some of the developments that occurred in 2017...
Read More »Customers, Start Your Pencil Sharpeners Enterprise hybrid cloud adoption is rising. It’s a trend that prompts vendors that serve enterprise IT to respond with hybrid cloud “in a box” solutions. In a previous post, I squared-off two such offerings—Microsoft’s Azure Stack vs. VMware’s...
Read More »Analysts go to a lot of trade shows and company-sponsored events where vendors show their new products and technologies. At these shows there’s always a theme. For a long time that theme was around data growth; how to storage and...
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 »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...
Read More »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...
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 »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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