Storage
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 |
Cloud storage holds tremendous promise as a way to reduce the cost of doing business by eliminating upfront and ongoing investments in infrastructure, floor space, power, cooling, and management overhead. Despite 2009’s poor economic environment and cloud’s promise of cost reductions, enterprise users have not flocked to public cloud ...
Going to push my luck and try skiing again this weekend. Blizzard been happening up north of me for a week, lots of snow. Nice knowing you.
Have you seen what Nasuni has done with its cloudbench utility? Tells users exactly what levels of availability and performance they get ...
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.
There is plenty of marketing speak about the cloud, but when you hang around the offices of the CIO and IT operations, you will find plenty of finger pointing. Who owns what? How the concept of a cloud construct will be embraced? The conversations we have with technology leaders share ...
For those of you who think that the storage and I/O paths in a virtualized environment have already been solved by VMware, think again. VMware created VMFS as a necessity in its ESX environment to be able to share a common disk pool, enable the mobility of virtual machines between ...
Terri McClure, Enterprise Strategy Group analyst, notes there has been continued interest in commodity-based scale-out platforms in the data centre driven by the long-term aftershocks of the economic slowdown.
via IBM unveils cloud storage | ITWeb.
"NetApp is still the big name in NAS and the one to beat – it is hard to displace someone as entrenched as NetApp in the data center," wrote Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) senior analyst Terri McClure in an email to SearchStorage.com.
via Isilon Systems clustered NAS adds solid-state drives (SSDs), ...
