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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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"Did you find everything you need?" You'll often be asked this at a retail checkout. I guess that a particular grocery not having precisely what you want is understandable; maybe a specific artisan cheese or a type of orange juice--with medium pulp, half-concentrate half-not, with light calcium and/or Riboflavin (no, ...
Although there’s plenty of high-tech business around where I live in Colorado (hence the ‘Silicon Mountain’ moniker), it’s clearly nothing like the Bay Area. So it’s hard not to be a tad more personally interested – often with friends affected – when the ebbs and flows of ...
Published on Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 3:30 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bill Lundell | Jennifer Gahm | John McKnight | Mark Peters | Terri McClure |
More than one-half (54%) of midmarket and enterprise organizations surveyed will increase their spending on storage hardware in 2010. Spending will vary by company size, vertical industry, and organizational behavior. Using data from ESG’s 2010 IT Spending Intention Survey, this brief analyzes storage spending at both a general and ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | Jennifer Gahm | John McKnight | Mark Peters | Terri McClure |
It’s always good to know that the world is changing and, hopefully, improving. So it was with interest that I heard that Kathrin Winkler – EMC’s Chief Sustainability Officer – participated earlier today at a hearing of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet. ...
NetApp’s earnings last week were certainly impressive – beating Wall St expectations handily, driving operating margins and even raising guidance. It was certainly a highlight that emphasized some refreshingly improved storage results over the last few weeks. How did NetApp do it? Of course, everyone at NetApp will ...
For Enterprise Strategy Group Senior Analyst Mark Peters, public clouds currently hold the most promise for smaller businesses and start-ups "that all share a desire to avoid the initial cost outlay of building an IT infrastructure."
via Can Cloud Computing Replace Your Storage Network? — EnterpriseStorageForum.com.
Over the last few weeks, Steve Duplessie's blog has been discussing some key elements that determine the relative success or failure of start-ups. It's his public way of forcing himself to [effectively] write a book, and it's an excellent--and continuing--series that makes good reading for anyone in this business. ...
‘Block storage’ can seem a little button-down and restrained; so it should as there are so many crucial applications and entire businesses that rely on it. Yet, this year there is a greater whiff of change in the air than there has been for some time: we live in a ...
Hello, whether you're a new reader or you've followed me across from my previous 'Mark My Words' blog. Welcome to the new blog or, at least a new name for the blog. All my prior posts are transferring with me, but I wanted to change the name in order to signal ...
Published on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at 9:49 am | 1 Comment »
Authors: Mark Peters | Tony Palmer |
The current popularity of deduplication should not blind users to the fact that it is only a contributory factor to overall storage efficiency; in this respect, best practices demand that users understand different ‘dedupe’ tools and integrate them into their storage efficiency efforts. Nexsan’s combination of deduplication with its ‘Highly ...
Authors: Mark Peters | Tony Palmer |
