IT companies around the world are looking at analytics as the holy grail for improving a host of business processes, such as cost reduction, manufacturing efficiency, predictive maintenance, design optimization, etc. And those in large, capital-intensive industries are particularly interested,…
There is a new data type that IT professionals need to be concerned with: high-value data. This is unstructured (file) data typically created by users, that has organizationally sensitive information in it and needs to be protected from tampering, loss…
Is seems that Apple has another success on its hands in the Apple Watch, but did you know that the Apple Watch could also be considered Software-Defined Storage (SDS)? I come to this conclusion based on the definition (a.k.a. rationalization)…
Branch offices are the front lines of business. They need to be nimble and more than ever must be connected. These offices also store a lot of data that needs to be shared with the corporate headquarters. While the branch…
Much to the surprise of VMware, the world is not 100% VMware. Hyper-V is seeing a rapid increase in adoption both in small businesses and for smaller remote offices in enterprises. But small organizations may want to replicate to a…
One of the questions that we are getting more often than ever from IT professionals is “does it make sense for my organization to start to consider OpenStack?”. OpenStack is an open source effort that attempts to offer an Amazon…
We speak to many customers who have all-flash based storage solutions to cut the time it takes for specific processes to complete. In many, many cases the reductions were dramatic, often going from multiple hours to dozens of minutes. Users…
As EMC World 2015 ends in Las Vegas, George Crump and I talk about some of the last minute news and notes from the event, including how the plan with ScaleIO, Project Caspian and a preview of DSSD technology.
Applications based on Microsoft SQL (MS-SQL) seem like obvious candidates for some type of flash performance boost. The high IOPS and low latency of flash storage is almost a perfect match for the high transaction MS-SQL environments. While almost any…
George Crump is in Las Vegas for EMC World 2015 and joins Charlie Hodges with an update from the second day at of the annual event. We discuss EMC’s Federation involving Pivotal, VMware and other partners, and how that Federation…
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