Cloud: The electricity of the 21st century?
UK IT departments are suffering: overworked and under-resourced. That’s the finding of a survey carried out by integrator/reseller MTI, which interviewed more than 100 UK IT professionals recently. It...
View ArticleThe storage vendor top five(s)
Gartner recently released research showing the volumes (in US dollars) of storage arrays shipped by the top vendors. It’s useful to look at just to know who the Big Five are, for example. But we’ll...
View ArticleWhen is storage virtualisation not storage virtualisation?
I was briefed by Dell yesterday, and the topic of conversation was meant to be “storage virtualisation.” I was looking forward to it, expecting an announcement of perhaps a forthcoming storage...
View ArticleTegile, hybrid flash and the laws of the storage market
It seems like hybrid flash/spinning disk array startups are sprouting up all over the place lately. There are the likes of Tintri, NexGen and Nutanix, and this week I spoke to another – Tegile – and...
View ArticleDataCore upgrades and ‘storage hypervisor’ hype
I spoke to DataCore CEO George Teixeira this week. He told me about the latest enterprise and cloud-focused upgrade of the vendor’s storage virtualisation software plus its pay-as-you-serve licensing...
View ArticleHow the UK public sector wastes money on storage
Open source storage vendor Nexenta recently press released results of a Freedom of Information request it put to 44 UK local authorities and government departments. Its headline conclusions were: That...
View ArticleNetApp FAS2220 turns the tide for clustered NAS
In the world of traditional NAS vs scale-out or clustered NAS, the tide has turned. I’ve argued elsewhere that it is about time the limits of traditional NAS — with its tendency for devices to...
View ArticleCoraid’s ZFS NAS launched, but clustering has to wait
I recently blogged on how the tide had turned in NAS: how clustered/scale-out NAS is now on course towards being the norm with the shipping of NetApp’s FAS2220 with a truly clustered OnTap 8.1.1 on...
View ArticleStorage and capitalism #4: Symantec’s Backup Exec 2012 blunder
Elsewhere I started to jot down thoughts about the facts of life of capitalism as they manifest themselves in the storage industry. Recently we saw another stark example: the tendency of vendors to...
View ArticleTape has taken up tennis
“Tape is dead” is probably one of the most successful aphorisms in IT; it is oft repeated and also represents the triumph of a sound bite over reality. The truth is that the global tape market is in a...
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