Nowadays, ARM CPUs are the predominant choice for everything outside the data center. Even some PCs are now based on this…
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Hardware-as-a-Service Isn’t the Future of On-Prem IT
Every hardware vendor in the world now is pushing for Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS). Even though I agree that software-as-a-service (SaaS)-like subscriptions are…
Read MoreMoney, Money, Money
“I work all night, I work all day, to pay the bills I have to pay Ain’t it sad And still…
Read MoreNetApp Fabric Orchestrator, One More Step in the Right Direction
NetApp has made a huge strategy shift a few years ago and has been transitioning from being a traditional storage company…
Read MoreThe Importance of User Interfaces in IT Infrastructure Management
IT is all about APIs and Automation now, but I think that sometimes we forget we are humans. User interfaces help…
Read MoreEdge Computing is the New Black
The IT industry has been living a big transformation for quite some time now. Most enterprises are focusing their investments in…
Read MoreTwo Different Approaches to Data Storage Analytics
In one of my latest reports, “Key Criteria for Evaluating Enterprise Block Storage,” I wrote that analytics is one of those…
Read MoreAn Update on Pure Storage From Pure Accelerate
I’m at Pure Accelerate 2019 trying to collect my thoughts and report on what I saw in the last couple of…
Read MoreObject Storage – Time for Differentiation and Diversification
I recently started to work on new research about object storage, and I’ll be writing a report about it soon. As…
Read MoreVMware Entering the IT Infrastructure Composability Game
VMworld 2019 proved to be a very good event. Although new product announcements were limited, the company made a great show…
Read MoreBI Consolidation Roundup
Read Andrew Brust’s Full Report Business Intelligence Market Consolidation – Spring 2019: A Breathtaking Ten Weeks of Change Report Summary: Business…
Read MoreWhy Many Businesses Are Not Ready For AI
Pillars of Readiness By now, the story is well told on how artificial intelligence is changing businesses, all the way down…
Read MoreData Protection and Data Management Vendor Review of Veeam: Customer-Focused, Future Forward, Feet on the Ground
Last week I attended VeeamON 2019, in Miami, and I had the chance to get a better idea about the status…
Read MoreHow Fearless Are You in Your Analytics Journey?
Would you describe yourself as a risk-taker? Fearless? Would you even go so far as jumping out of a plane on…
Read MoreWhat is the Best Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Solution for You?
Last week I had a speech at a small workshop in Italy around hyper-convergence. It was a group of more than…
Read MoreUnstructured Data Management, Where to Start
A few months ago I wrote a report about unstructured data management. And the introduction starts like this: “Unstructured data growth…
Read MoreHardware as a Service – Resellers Becoming Managed Service Providers
In an effort to mimic the cloud, vendors, as well as resellers, are switching to subscription-based sales models for hardware and,…
Read MoreHow Intel’s Newest Product Enhancements Could Redefine the Future of Infrastructure Design
On the 2nd of April, at their Data Centric Innovation Day, Intel announced a slew of new products, including brand spanking…
Read MoreThe Future of Software Innovation? Hardware-Enabled AI & ML Innovation
Hardware innovation is a fickle beast. It takes money, lots of money. It takes time, a great team, and execution in…
Read MoreHow IBM is Rethinking its Data Protection Line-Up
Following up on my take on the evolution of product and strategy of companies like Cohesity and NetApp, today I’d like…
Read MoreNetApp Data Availability Services Integrate On-Premises & Cloud as One
At the end of February 2019, at Storage Field Day 18, NetApp presented another tool aimed at integrating its on-premises solutions…
Read MoreDemocratizing Data Management
Lately, I’ve written a lot about data-management for unstructured data and more in general, about the relationship between data management and…
Read MoreThe Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)
HCI is very popular with organizations of all sizes now, but it’s not perfect! A compromise must be found between performance,…
Read MoreFive questions for… Keri Gilder, Chief Commercial Officer, Colt Technology Services. Can Connectivity be linked to Customer Experience?
Customer experience, or CX, is one of those areas that makes you wonder why it’s being discussed: after all, which organisation…
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