Archive for December, 2011
For my last blog of 2011 I am again turning to the topic of solid-state storage. I make no apologies for this as we seem to finally be witnessing the upward ‘hockey stick’ momentum in the use of solid-state in business storage ecosystems. This may not yet be represented in ...
Sometimes in this business it is hard to separate the real stuff from the marketing fluff. One of the big questions I’ve been asked in 2011 is whether or not there is any momentum behind cloud storage. That is a tough question to answer – the biggest players, ...
Recent ESG research indicates that the remote worker population will grow significantly over the next three years. Why? Organizations see ROI on remote worker programs in terms of cost reduction, higher employee morale, and improved productivity. While these are attractive benefits, ESG believes that today’s laissez-faire remote worker programs have ...
Next year will see more solid state usage, not just volumes, but it will be used in more places by more users for more applications, says Mark Peters, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. “The overall M.O. (modus operandi, Latin phrase for mode of operation) for solid state will turn ...
Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group August-September Issue The thing that VMware is doing right is theyre innovating amazingly. I think from an overall tech-nology innovation perspective, theyve built a community, and theyve got that community to really align with what they can offer. I hear very few, if ...
The increasing use of solid-state is—in a generic sense—well documented. But what specifically it is being used for is less well known. Recent ESG primary research investigated and found recent significant changes in—and broadening of—the applications for which solid-state is being deployed. It is making the move from a vertical ...
Many companies selling surveillance equipment that connects to the internet have the ability to monitor their own customers, and governments could require them to do so while tightening export laws.
Anything connected to the internet "can phone home and provide some sort of location data," said Jon Oltsik, a senior principal ...
Yet there are ways to stem the flow of such technology, which can be used as a weapon but isn’t regulated like one. Many companies selling surveillance equipment that connects to the Internet have the ability to monitor their own customers, and governments could require them to do so while ...
Cisco recently unveiled its next-generation Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) solutions, delivering a significant upgrade over its previous versions. The improvements address the demand for a WAN solution capable of scaling to deliver web-based software applications and rich media content across networks with improved performance. In order to realize market ...
Yesterday I blogged about why I am so excited to be tackling the online file storage and collaboration market and the impact of consumerization and mobility on unstructured data storage strategies. Today I am please to share that I will be speaking on the topic at the CITE (Consumerization ...
