In 2015 Storage Switzerland is again partnering with Storage Decision / TechTarget to deliver a 13 city road tour on data protection, entitled “Backup 2.0”. As I discussed in a previous column, in these sessions we are going to break…
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Analyst Blog: Why Design a Forever Retention Strategy?
Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Analytics, Backup, Cloud, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Protection, Data Retention, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Storage Decisions, TechTarget
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Who’s missing from the Gartner’s Storage Magic Quadrant?
In my last four columns we looked at all four sections of the Gartner Magic Quadrant, the popular graphic that analyzes and ranks various storage vendors on different products, this one on their ability to provide a primary storage system.…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Analyst Opinion, Data Protection, Gartner, Hard disk, Opinion, Software Defined Storage, Startup, Unstructured data
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Analyst Opinion: Analyzing the Niche section of the Gartner Magic Quadrant
In my last three columns I have analyzed the Leader, Visionary, and Challenger sections of the Gartner Magic Quadrant. In this column we will take a look at the most confusing part of the Gartner chart, the Niche section. Section…
Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Gartner, Hardware, Opinion, Primary Storage, SDS, Software, Software Defined Storage
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Analyst Opinion: The Boring Section of the Gartner Magic Quadrant
Gartner recently released its updated view of the storage industry, ranking vendors on their ability to execute and the completeness of their vision in a graphic they call the Magic Quadrant. In my last two columns I provided analysis of…
Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Cloud, DataDirect Networks, DDN, Fujitsu, Gartner, HPC, Huawei, Object Storage, Opinion, Oracle
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Analyst Opinion: Analyzing the Gartner’s Visionary Quadrant
Gartner recently released its view of the storage industry, ranking vendors on ability to execute and completeness of vision and displaying the results on a graph they call the Magic Quadrant. In my last column I described the components of…
Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Compression, Coraid, Deduplication, Gartner, Hybrid Storage, Nimble Storage, Opinion, Scale-Out, Storage, Tegile, Tintri, X-IO, ZFS
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Analyst Opinion: Analyzing the Gartner Magic Quadrant
Gartner recently released its Magic Quadrant for storage. While I don’t always agree with their positioning, it is a reasoned analysis and I’m sure they can defend the various positioning of vendors they are tracking. It also gives other analyst…
Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Dell, EMC, Enterprise, Gartner, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NetApp, Opinion, Storage
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A new kind of company – SanDisk and Fusion-io
The news this week that SanDisk is buying Fusion-io for over $1 Billion dollars is something to pay attention to. If the acquisition goes through, SanDisk becomes a formidable competitor to a wide variety of companies in the storage and…
Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Buy-out, Flash, Fusion-io, OEM, SanDisk, Shared Storage, SSD
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