Archive for December, 2010
Lauren Whitehouse, a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, recalled tracking approximately 250 MSPs two years ago. Today, cloud backup MSPs number in the thousands, from major vendors to regional providers, she noted.
via Cloud backup solutions poised for increased adoption.
For the past three years, respondents to ESG’s IT Spending Intentions Survey cited “business process improvement initiatives” as the #2 initiative that will impact IT spending. The 2011 survey continues this streak, identifying it additionally as the second most important justification for new IT spending.
That begs the question that ...
Google just announced support for NFC in Nexus S.
NFC, near field communication, is the technology used in contactless payment cards and enables an amazing new set of applications. The more obvious one is using your handset as a credit card--and it does not need to be powered up.
However, Nexus will ...
Mark Peters, a senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group thinks that while Compellent isn't as clean a fit as 3PAR in terms of complementing Dell's lineup, it's a good fit nonetheless.
via eChannelLine USA - Dell deal done for Compellent.
In the past, I've written about how careful we all need to be with semantics in this business. You can't assume a phrase means the same thing (cloud!?) even when it seems pretty precise (all thin provisioning is not the same, for instance). But in London this week, I got ...
Server virtualization technology has had a tremendous impact on the entire data center. In my last blog, I talked about the impact to the storage team and the increased use of SAN based storage. Today, I will discuss its impact to the network team. In the recent ...
Buying Compellent will allow Dell "to take a 20-point margin business and make it a 70-point one" by owning the intellectual property it is selling, said Steve Duplessie, an analyst with research company Enterprise Strategy Group
via Dell Nears $875 Million Deal for Compellent - WSJ.com.
Last month I read a couple of stories recounting the work of a certain Philip Tetlock, who is a University of California psychologist. He has spent over 25 years monitoring the predictions of pundits across a whole raft of industries–having reviewed over 82,000 predictions, the vast majority of ...
"It wouldn't be a bidding war, it would be a pissing war, which is not impossible. At the current price and with the money these people have been throwing around lately, a billion dollars to make it awkward for Dell is neither here nor there. But, they don't stand to ...
Despite the unseasonably cold weather, I participated in a mobile security event yesterday at the historic Willard hotel in Washington DC. I set the stage and presented a bunch of ESG Research data on mobile device use, security, and management. Other organizations presenting included the Defense Information ...
