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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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So, it’s been a busy old week or two in the land of fun and speculation – and, yes, when I say that, I’m talking storage! The last two Mondays have been dominated by ‘thin’ news – first Dell bids for 3PAR and then HP enters (at least ...
"Dell's bid was always and still remains about more than just storage," said Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Mark Peters.
via 3Par turns to HP for "superior" deal, snubbed Dell may raise bid - International Business Times.
"Clearly, when you go in with a bid that's a 33.3% premium [over a rival's bid] it's a competitive bid and not based on what the company is worth," said Mark Peters, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford, Mass.
via HP or Dell -- which is the better suitor ...
Having been off the blogging trail for a while, I’ve been aware that whenever I re-start, it had better be about something interesting and preferably important. After all you don’t want to appear to be giving too much emphasis to something of little consequence; that said of course, ...
IT budgets remain flat, yet businesses demand higher service levels for application availability in a 24/7 global economy. For this reason, organizations require a cost-effective high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) business continuity plan that is suitably fast, flexible, adaptable, and automated. Pressures for economic efficiencies are causing ...
Guarantees are often used by emerging vendors because they have to; when market leaders do so, it’s invariably because they want to. EMC now says that its customers will need 20% less raw unified storage capacity in NAS and/or SAN configurations than they’ll need from the competition. Furthermore, EMC has ...
Published on Friday, June 18th, 2010 at 9:02 am | No Comments »
Authors: Mark Peters | Tony Palmer |
Driven by a mix of increased regulation, business expectations, and the sheer growth of data, digital archives are not only growing in capacity, but also in the number of individual objects that are being stored and managed. Nexsan’s Assureon is a CAS (Content Addressable Storage) system capable of protecting, retaining, ...
Authors: Mark Peters | Tony Palmer |
Thin provisioning is a smart solution when users want to manage storage efficiently, but it’s not a storage management panacea. Using well-integrated tools to target wasted storage capacity and put it back to work is a sound strategy to significantly reduce storage costs. Symantec’s Veritas Storage Foundation provides ...
Scale-out storage—also called horizontal scaling—differs from scale-up storage, but vendor messaging can often leave users confused about the differences between the two. Each scaling methodology has its own place in managing today’s complex storage environments and needs to be understood. Sometimes, a combination of the two can yield optimal benefits ...
Scale-up storage—also sometimes called vertical scaling—differs from scale-out storage and vendor messaging can often leave users confused about the differences between the two. Each scaling methodology has its own place in managing today’s complex storage environments and needs to be understood. Sometimes a combination of the two can yield optimal ...
