Archive for July, 2011
There have been some recent pricing announcements from well known companies that have customers in a knot. First is the recent announcement from Netflix that they will be decoupling their streaming service from the DVD service and effectively increasing the price. This one practically set my Twitter feed on fire.
Another ...
Report details strategies, tools, and services to incorporate e-discovery-related
facts and metrics into case strategy development
Milford, MA— July 18, 2011 —The Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), a leading IT industry analyst and consulting organization, today announced its Electronic Discovery (e-discovery) Market Landscape Report on Initial Case Assessment, examining the opportunity organizations have ...
EMC announced the arrival of ProSphere, the heir apparent to the venerable Control Center SRM offering. The big news here is that this isn't just an upgrade to ECC, but rather a complete re-architecture of its SRM software to better accommodate virtualization and cloud environments.
The new architecture is pretty impressive, ...
Analyst Bob Laliberte of Enterprise Strategy Group told eWEEK that EMC's Ionix acquisition two years ago got the ball rolling for this product.
via EMC Launches New Storage Manager for Cloud Deployments - Data Storage - News & Reviews - eWeek.com.
Xyratex has been steadily expanding its business, evolving from providing storage enclosures to add Integrated Application Platforms and now OEM solutions. The latest addition is the ClusterStor scale-out HPC storage solution. This is a Lustre-based scale-out storage solution that Xyratex will offer through its OEM channels. This move expands Xyratex’s ...
Since when is everyone a software licensing expert? As expected, the market responded by throwing stones at VMware this week when it announced a change in its licensing model. To Steve Duplessie's point in his recent blog post, no one likes to pay, but they do. Let me quickly ...
It feels like only yesterday I was making some alphabetical point about ‘X’ coming after ‘Z’…ah, yes, it was indeed yesterday, in my blog about the latest version of XIV from IBM. Today we have EMC engaged in its own alphabetical intrigue as it adds a lower case ‘e’ to ...
A while ago I wrote a blog on the hatred of software licensing. It isn't any better today.
Yesterday, VMware announced some new licensing information. To be completely honest, I have no idea what those announcements were. I do know that they were met with loathing, frothing vitriol. ...
Acknowledging that there are many types of storage users with changing business needs, EMC has formally launched its new Symmetrix VMAXe, which offers enterprise class functionality in a smaller and simpler package than its “big brother,” VMAX. EMC is well aware that this piece of the storage jigsaw might have ...
Not everyone sees this scenario as a seismic shift. An emphasis on services (versus IT operations) is nothing new, said Mark Bowker, senior analyst at The Enterprise Strategy Group Inc. (ESG) in Milford, Mass. Many CIOs have begun to position IT as a service already. "There is no major shift ...
