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Mark Peters, Senior Analyst
Mark is a senior analyst at ESG, focused on storage systems, as well as the challenges of power, cooling and space efficiency in data centers. Mark's particular emphases are block storage, virtualized storage and all types of solid state storage.
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There seems to be good news from many sides of the storage world lately; we’ve seen a flurry of good, consistent and genuinely impressive business results from many of the main vendors, which is encouraging. The world is high on ‘big data’ – which, let’s face it, has to be ...
As you may have noticed there’s not much of an obvious direct link between George Washington and cybersecurity; but it’s President’s Day here in the US, so I figured something relevant might be good. While George Washington is revered as the father of the country, cybersecurity might easily be ...
“There isn’t an easy answer,” says Mark Peters, a senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group Inc. “I think we live in a world where the demand for storage, whether from a capacity or performance criteria, seems to at least match and at times be greater than the ability of ...
There was ‘big’ news today from Oracle regarding its StorageTek T10000C Tape Drive - or more accurately the media that runs on those drives. In the first 9 months of the T10KC (as it tends to be called) drive’s release, Oracle has sold enough media to store over an EXABYTE of ...
"While users appreciate that they can free up server and IO resources to support virtualized production workloads by moving IO-intensive processes from their ESX hosts to their storage arrays, the actual level of benefit they'll realize from VAAI will to a large degree depend on the underlying storage. Flexible, scalable, ...
"While users appreciate that they can free up server and IO resources to support virtualized production workloads by moving IO-intensive processes from their ESX hosts to their storage arrays, the actual level of benefit they'll realize from VAAI will to a large degree depend on the underlying storage,” said Mark ...
Keeping up with all the solid-state news is a consuming process. Aside from the simple avalanche of raw-specsmanship news (the ultimate game of techno-leapfrog right now), what is worth trying to capture are developing and shifting market trends. Earlier this week came the Lightning announcement from EMC, which was covered ...
As industry ‘secrets’ go, you’d have to say that EMC’s ‘Lightning’ news today was no big surprise. But, as with its meteorological namesake, knowing there’ll be lightning in a storm isn’t half as important as determining the location and impact of the strike. It’s also a bit ...
"In increasingly virtualized datacenters, we believe that storage will gradually cease to be implemented as we know it today and will itself also become completely virtualized, leveraging commodity hardware, being self-optimizing and scaling-out to new levels," explains Mark Peters, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "The industry, which makes a ...
Cold data anyone? With so much talk of managing ‘hot’ data, I felt this might at least catch your eye. As it happens I’m not talking about the activity level for a given piece of information, but I am actually talking about temperature….and, no, not the temperature in the data ...
