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Terri McClure, Senior Analyst
Terri is an ESG senior analyst focusing on network attached storage, file systems, unified storage and cloud storage.
Perhaps lost somewhat in all of the VMworld buzz this week was Nasuni’s announcement that it is offering a free cloud gateway to companies in regions vulnerable to hurricanes.  It’s not free forever – you get three months of gateway service free if you sign up between now ...
Sending large amounts of data over distance can be costly and time consuming. Unfortunately, it's also necessary for a myriad of IT functions including remote office backup, outsourcing, data center moves, and cloud computing models. Increasingly cost sensitive business models are forcing more and more companies to find ways to ...
I spent two days this week at the Oracle systems and storage industry analyst event.  I never thought I’d type those words, Oracle systems and storage.  I am not sure what I expected–there are stories, mostly from competitors, about disillusioned Sun employees fleeing Oracle in droves, so ...
It is a story often repeated because it is a challenge IT has been living with for a very long time. The amount of data businesses need to store is skyrocketing, which drives corresponding growth in overall data storage costs in the form of storage systems, floor space, power, ...
With the technical hurdles behind him, Putterman still faces the challenge of luring the kind of consumers who are easily overwhelmed by the prospect of new, unfamiliar computer equipment, says Terri McClure, a storage analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, a technology research firm in Milford, Mass. via Pogoplug: Your own personal ...
Enterprise Strategy Group senior analyst Terri McClure notes that quickly growing data volume is "driving a need for storage that can manage and process large data sets more efficiently and intelligently." via ParaScale Unveils Cloud-Scale Data Protection and Security For "Big Data" | WHIR Web Hosting Industry News".
TwinStrata unveiled its company and strategy today, positioning itself as a cloud storage enablement platform that lets users tap into an intelligent storage cloud. Cloud storage holds tremendous promise as a way for IT to significantly drive down both CAPEX and OPEX, but the reality is that cloud storage is new ...
NetApp recently threw its hat into the scale-out object storage game with the acquisition of Bycast, a Vancouver, BC-based provider of clustered object storage management software. The acquisition gives NetApp an object management software layer that scales to store billions of objects and a policy engine that provides advanced ...
Terri McClure, senior analyst, ESG, said unified storage can improve the mobility and sharing of data between resources and users in a fluid and cost-effective manner. via NetApp continues bringing unified storage to customers.
Cloud storage promises to offer significant operational savings, bottomless storage capacity, reduced capital expenditures, and the flexibility to deploy storage quickly. IT shops, however, remain concerned that it won’t deliver the required performance, security, and data availability they can get with onsite solutions. Nasuni addresses these concerns for ...