Archive for August, 2009
EMC and NetApp take a similar approach, said Lauren Whitehouse, an analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group, forcing a customer to do a "forklift" upgrade of their entire system or buy another virtual tape library just to get a comparatively small additional amount of capacity.
via Buying a virtual tape library ...
I'm sure someone somewhere tracks these things, so if you (whomever you are) happen to read this, I'd love to know what the record is for significant disk storage related announcements in one day. Whatever the answer, this 25th August is a busy day. Since I can't believe the PR ...
NetApp’s ONTAP 8 contains the foundational elements users need to build scalable virtual storage environments. Although its scale-out GX platform has been available for a while, NetApp held off on really pushing it until it was integrated with ONTAP and could leverage features such as SnapMirror, MultiStore, and Provisioning Manager. ...
As a citizen of the Commonwealth of MA, I am embarrassed by my State's mismanagement and nonchalant attitude toward data privacy legislation. In an era where we aren't doing enough to safeguard private data, the Commonwealth decided, once again, to delay the compliance deadline of its new data security legislation, ...
34% of enterprise shops are actively looking to reduce the numbers of vendors they deal with, according to our 2009 Spending Survey. That's a lot.
Specifically, 34% of enterprise IT operations have a stated corporate objective to "reduce the number of vendors we work with."
Good or bad? Isn't the vendor list ...
The reasons vendors are embracing commodity chips are straightforward, said Brian Garrett, technical director of the ESG Lab at Enterprise Strategy Group.
via Intel, AMD Win Data Storage Business - www.enterprisestorageforum.com.
My friend and colleague Steve Duplessie just recently wrote about Enterprise customers consolidating vendors. At ESG we have been conducting a Spending Intentions Survey for years and one of the recent outputs is that 34% of enterprise IT operations have a stated corporate objective to “reduce the number of vendors we ...
Have you been noticing how unimportant hardware has become? Having the biggest. fastest, most reliable piece of equipment in the data center doesn’t cut it anymore. A few weeks back I was talking to Dave Hitz, one of the founders of NetApp and author of How to Castrate a Bull. ...
New paper we've done. Please comment away.
Premise: It's no wonder IT isn't aligned with the business - it isn't aligned internally with itself. The two biggest functional groups (infrastructure/operations & business/applications) are fundamentally at odds with each other.
Infrastructure/Ops's priorities are all about lowering costs, improving IT efficiency, improving asset utilization. ...
Through qualitative and observational research, ESG has uncovered a consistent problem within IT that has led to costly inefficiencies, protectionist behavior patterns, poor communications, lack of understanding, and increased business risk. Fortunately, fixing these issues has proven to be relatively easy, once the problems are acknowledged.
IT does not need expensive ...
