IBM Augments its Cyber Resiliency Stack with IBM Storage Defender, in Collaboration with Cohesity

By Krista Macomber, Friday, March 31st 2023

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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...

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Cohesity DataHawk Goes GA and the Company Introduces Security Advisor Council and Data Security Alliance, Embracing Partners for Cyber Resiliency

By Krista Macomber, Tuesday, March 21st 2023

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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...

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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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HCI – What Happened in 2017 and What to Watch for in 2018

By Eric Slack, Sunday, January 14th 2018

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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...

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Enterprise Vendors Expanding in the HCI Market

By Eric Slack, Tuesday, October 10th 2017

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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...

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A New Tool for Storage You Will Actually Use – by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Tuesday, February 14th 2017

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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...

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IBM’s Spectrum of New Storage Brands – Storage Soup blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Tuesday, February 17th 2015

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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...

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Financial models and purchasing patterns, blog by Camberley Bates

By Camberley Bates, Tuesday, July 15th 2014

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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...

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HP and the New Chapter – blog by Camberley Bates

By Camberley Bates, Monday, March 18th 2013

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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...

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Hadoop Appliances — the Lengthening List

By John Webster, Thursday, February 28th 2013

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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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