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 »Veritas Rising Appropriately, Symantec will call its new information management spinout Veritas Technologies Corp. The company will consist of many products from the original, which Symantec acquired in 2005. Let me say that I think the spinout is a great...
Read More »By my count, around 70 storage start-up companies were acquired in the past year. That is quite a few acquisitions, although not as many as in some past years. A surge in acquisitions always leads to contemplation about upcoming opportunities...
Read More »All storage systems have a controller, which is a device with a processor that sends instructions to the disks. Storage controllers differ from vendor to vendor, but generally fit into three types — custom designed, purpose-built, and commodity server-based. Each...
Read More »Now that we have just finished an election where special interest groups seeking to control government through their proxies spent billions of dollars marketing campaigns to make negative claims about competitors, we should think about the lesson this has taught...
Read More »The capacity utilization for storage is one area where storage vendors have made a lot of improvements. Advanced features such as storage pooling, thin provisioning, and storage virtualization have introduced greater efficiencies for using storage capacity. Still, trying to understand capacity utilization can be...
Read More »The term access method is frequently used to identify types of I/O in open systems. Many who use it probably don’t understand the historical context for what has been known as an access method for over 50 years. In open systems, the...
Read More »It seems clear that all solid-state technology will become common in primary storage systems soon. In our IT client engagements, we see many companies including the transition to all solid state in their storage strategies. As with many new technologies, there are...
Read More »The use of solid state technology in the form of NAND flash for storage systems changes the way we need to evaluate storage. While it brings power, space, and reliability advantages, the main reason for using solid state is performance – it...
Read More »There are many types of implementations of solid state or flash storage systems. At Evaluator Group, we regularly field questions and work on projects regarding solid state storage with our IT clients. In addition to the performance explanations and evaluation guide for...
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