by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 14, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
The power of the big IaaS players – Amazon, Google, Facebook, Azure (AGFA) – constitutes a shadow IT industry. It is a shadow because its operations are outside the transparency we take for granted with legacy IT vendors like IBM, HP, Cisco and Oracle....
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 13, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
Why is enterprise infrastructure so costly and inflexible while warehouse-scale computing is cost-effective and flexible? Is it: a) Enterprise infrastructure is too capital intensive? b) Warehouse-scale people are smarter? c) High-scale systems can’t be reduced...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, October 8, 2014 | Backup, Enterprise |
Multiple outlets are reporting that Symantec (SYMC), which bought storage software leader Veritas for $10.6 billion in 2005, is soon to break itself up into a security company and a storage software company. SYMC segments their business into User Productivity &...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 24, 2014 | Enterprise, Marketing |
With reports from the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times that EMC has been shopping itself to HP, Dell and perhaps Cisco and Oracle (pretty please!) it’s clear that the “EMC Federation” concept has cratered. Why did it take so long? While an...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 8, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Object storage |
Amplidata announced this morning that Western Digital Capital has made a $10m investment. HGST, a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital Corp., has selected Amplidata’s Himalaya software to jointly develop a family of ultra-dense storage solutions to address the...
by Robin Harris | Friday, September 5, 2014 | Enterprise, Information Management |
A new storage market is being born. Will it survive? As infrastructure continues to adjust to a data-centric world, the ability to manage data – not just storage – is poised to become a must-have capability. Traditionally, of course, data management has...
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