The News: IBM announced a collaboration with Cohesity and its new IBM Storage Defender cyber resiliency solution, the first iteration of which will become available in the second calendar quarter of 2023, with additional developments to follow. Read the full...
Read More »The News: Cohesity DataHawk, a single-SKU, software-as-a-service (SaaS)-delivered bundle of Cohesity and BigID cyber-resiliency capabilities, becomes generally available. Cohesity also introduces its Security Advisor Council and its Data Security Alliance. See more from Cohesity here. Cohesity DataHawk Goes GA and...
Read More »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...
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 »The Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) market has been shifting towards the larger, established storage and server vendors for the past year or more. HPE bought SimpliVity earlier in 2017, Cisco is expanding its presence, and IBM and NetApp are coming out...
Read More »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 »IBM has rebranded storage products and introduced XIV as a software-only offering under a new overarching identity – IBM Spectrum. The decoder ring for these products is: This name change will take a long time to become second nature for many in...
Read More »This week another special purchasing model was announced, as Violin Memory rolled out its Pay-as-you-go model. There seems to be multiple financing options (or re-introduction), representative of the tightening of CAPEX budgets around IT. Violin Memory, needing to re-establish a...
Read More »I had just departed IBM when Lou Gertsner, joined the company as IBM’s CEO. In some ways, seeing Meg Whitman enter into HP feels like a throw-back to his entry. The naysayers that have stood at the side lines and...
Read More »I noted in a previous blog post that Hadoop needed a number of enhancements to make it more acceptable to enterprise users. One of them was simplicity. Indeed, even some of the purveyors of Hadoop distributions privately admit that Hadoop,...
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