Relatively new in the storage world is a cloud-based application (Software as a Service or SaaS) that receives telemetry data from storage systems providing real-time dashboards along with reports and analytics. The analytics can predict potential failures, out of space...
Read More »At VMworld a couple weeks ago, Chad Sakac, President of VCE, DellEMC’s Converged Platform Division, made it clear that Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions are a big part of the company’s plans moving forward. They’ve also had some early success. VxRail (which...
Read More »Direct and flat backups are part of a recent change in the data protection model. Explore the issues associated with the technologies and which products are implementing them. Data protection is one of the most basic functions in information technology...
Read More »For years we have been seeing technology in the storage industry ‘trickle down’ as advanced features and functions become available in smaller, less expensive systems. With the rise of hyper-scale IT and software-based infrastructures we’re seeing the technology ‘leak’ accelerate,...
Read More »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...
Read More »Never thought I would host a panel on this topic. In fact I rarely attend a women’s designated industry event, but when the Flash Memory Summit organizers asked me to host the Women in Flash Technology panel, I said yes....
Read More »This last week we were at EMC World, held in Las Vegas with a record crowd and lots of news. The big, actionable news items were the new XtremIO (bigger, better), a cool new DSSD rack-scale flash system (faster but...
Read More »Las Vegas – The storage presence at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show last week continued to grow due to the increasing demand to store files in the media and entertainment market. The increase in camera resolution to 4K...
Read More »Whose making the storage decisions now? Five years ago it was pretty straight forward. The person buying storage was the Storage Architect, influenced by the Storage Admin with a budget approved by the direct line bosses, depending on how much was...
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