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Steve Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst
Steve is the founder of and Senior Analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. Recognized worldwide as the leading independent authority on enterprise storage, Steve has also consistently been ranked as one of the most influential IT analysts. Known for his 'pull no punches' straight shooting style, Steve has been the keynote speaker at events throughout the world.
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From 1965 to yesterday, the definition of IT has really been “to automate the knowledge worker tasks of days gone by.” It’s never really been “to enable the intellectual power of all those who have come before, and all those who are about to join us.”
That’s about ...
Steve Duplessie, who tracks EMC as a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford, said the decision to hold off a chief executive’s announced retirement is an unusual one. “I can’t off the top of my head think of any other time it’s happened,’’ he said.
Duplessie noted that Tucci ...
I spent yesterday at the NE VMUG at Gillette Stadium. In short, while it had flaws, it was awesome. I’ve been to well over 8 million of these types of shows. This is my unabashed favorite of all time.
Why? Because it really is social networking 1.0. ...
There are some who suggest that this proliferation of Big Data definitions makes the term “effectively meaningless”. The quote is from Steve Duplessie of “Enterprise Strategy Group”, although he then goes on to define Big Data himself with some now familiar terms: “any dataset that breaks the boundaries and capabilities ...
Israeli or not, most start-ups fail. And in Israel, there are country-specific reasons that start-ups here fail (as most do). According to blogger Steve Duplessie:
"...the belief that a company in IT/Tech over the last 20 years can be truly run from Israel. They can't. I am an unabashed fan of ...
AutoVirt’s targeting of the SMB and midmarket level contributed to its demise, said Steve Duplessie, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). The software only worked for Windows environments in smaller organizations, which typically have small amounts of data to migrate, compared with enterprise-level customers that need to move terabytes ...
Last week Boston area startup AutoVirt failed. They failed not because their stuff didn’t work (it worked quite well). They failed not because there was not a legitimate need (people need to do data migrations between systems/storage).
They failed because they built a value proposition aimed at a person ...
I love this data, which comes from ESG’s 2012 IT spending intentions survey (we’ve been doing this for years, so we have some excellent tracking data). This survey covers North America, Western Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.
In 2009, people were 3X more likely to cancel an IT project, ...
I just wrote this article for Info Week about Big Data, where outside of stealing the concepts from Julie Lockner, we redefine this absurdly ill defined term.
Simply put, big data applies to any data set that breaks the boundaries and conventional capabilities of IT. That’s it. What kinds ...
AutoVirt’s mobility software was designed to help businesses analyze any data they had stored on Microsoft Windows-based file servers, as well as any network-attached storage hardware. It also enabled customers to move that data across different storage platforms. So why did it fail? One can only speculate, but word is ...
