Archive for November, 2009
As discussed in my last blog, many storage vendors talk about storage tiering, but they often mean “in the box” tiering that supports a variety of drive types within a single array. Considering that most data only stays active for about 30 days after it is created, it makes sense to ...
"I'd rather be HP than Cisco right now," says Steve Duplessie, founder of the research firm Enterprise Strategy Group.
via Cisco's Extreme Ambitions - BusinessWeek.
The stick could be necessary to push IT managers to adopt better practices, the eWEEK panel agreed: "IT managers are conservative," said Steve O'Donnell, managing director of Enterprise Strategy Group.
via Green Data Centres Wait For Regulations - News - eWeekEurope.co.uk.
The problem with us old operations guys is that we have seen pretty much everything that is supposed to be new before, sometimes a generation or more ago. Makes us a bit cynical about innovation – so when I heard about some oldie technology doing something really innovative I was ...
It’s tough to blog from the road so I’ll make this brief with a few noteworthy “atta boys” I’ve been thinking about.
1. Huge kudos to the CBS News Magazine 60 Minutes for its November 8 segment titled, “Sabotaging the System.” This piece described how hackers could launch a ...
The storage industry has an assortment of labels that describe the capability to align data storage performance, cost, and protection to the value of that data. The more valuable the data, the bigger and badder the system it’s stored on—at a higher price. As data ages and access slows or ...
Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Terri McClure said in a statement that "Efforts like Nexenta's are propelling storage into the 21st century, much like Red Hat and Linux did for the server industry."
via Storage Vendors Cut Costs With Open Source - www.enterprisestorageforum.com.
Many of you probably keep hearing me say, “you can’t just buy desktop virtualization”. Unlike server virtualization where you can just buy a hypervisor and you are off to the races, desktop virtualization will impact IT architecture decisions, endpoint choice, application management and user experience.
HP just announced some interesting new ...
I just read this online at the Wall Street Journal
It’s a Free Country……So why can’t I pick the technology I use in the office?
In a recent survey on mobile device trends, ESG found that just 9% of businesses say that employees are free to select any device or mobile plan ...
If Riverbed can solve the performance issues associated with cloud storage in the way the vendor did for applications and data transfers on the WAN, it will open up the entire market, according to Steve Duplessie, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group.
via Riverbed looks to speed cloud applications, storage.
