by Robin Harris | Friday, November 21, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise, Information Management, Object storage |
The economics of massive scale-out storage systems has thrown a harsh light on legacy enterprise storage. Expensive, inflexible, under-utilized data silos are not what data intensive enterprises need or – increasingly – can afford. That much is obvious to...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 18, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
EMC – and other legacy array vendors – are trying to become an intermediary between enterprises and the cloud. Are cloud-washed arrays a viable strategy? EMC’s Joe Tucci is working to ensure that EMC can survive in a cloud world even if he...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 11, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Marketing, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Forbes contributor and analyst Peter Cohan writes on seemingly conflicting stories coming from Pure and EMC. Let’s unpack the dueling narratives. Does Pure win 70% vs EMC or does EMC win 95% vs Pure? The metrics: Both parties seem to agree that they meet up very...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 6, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Information Management, NAS, IP, iSCSI, Object storage |
Formation Data Systems announced a soft launch a few weeks ago with a $24M round – hefty for a software play – and one of the investors is Kumar Malavalli, the smart guy behind Brocade. StorageMojo spoke to FDS CEO Mark Lewis. The what Formation is focused...
by Robin Harris | Friday, October 24, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
What’s next for the shadow IT industry? It should be obvious: after blowing up the storage and server business models, what’s left? Networking Amazon has been working on their own networking software and hardware for several years. While networks...
by Robin Harris | Friday, October 17, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
The first post on shadow IT looked at R&D spend. Now we look at CapEx spend – specifically PP&E – property, plant and equipment. That’s where new datacenters, servers, storage and networks go. Big Spend The FY13 PP&E spend in billions...
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