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Storage Migration Costs Can Exceed Array Prices
In the latest in his series of Wikibon Professional Alerts on Software-led Infrastructure, “Moving to Virtualized Clustered Storage”, Wikibon CTO David Floyer examines the full cost of storage array replacement and discovers that the costs involved in data migration can exceed the price of the original array itself. This expense is often regarded as a ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs
EMC Publishes “15 Minute Guide to Better Backup” EMC has published a PDF report presenting its latest solutions for backup/recovery data. It starts by examining three pressures that are breaking traditional data backup systems: massive data growth, IT budget pressures, and virtualization and the cloud. It then presents EMC’s answer to these problems, based of ...
CIOs Should Give Hyper-V a Try Says Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe
Hyper-V is often less expensive, and while VMware has the feature and market share lead, Microsoft has added enterprise-level functionality in the latest version, writes Wikibon Analyst, consultant and former CIO Scott Lowe in “VMware vs Microsoft: It’s Time to Stop the Madness”. While Hyper-V’s feature set is certainly not on par with VMware, and ...
Cloud Services, Big Data Dominate IT Professionals’ Online Conversations
An analysis of more than 1.5 million tweets from several thousand IT professionals in the IT services community over the period from August through November of 2012 shows a continued heavy interest in Cloud and growing focus on Big Data technology and analysis, writes Wikibon Chief Analyst David Vellante in his latest Wikibon Alert. The analysis, ...
Software-Led IT Environments, Flash Storage Provide Net Savings
Wikibon research shows that new software-led infrastructures leveraging the latest SSD technology from vendors like SolidFire can provide a large enough savings in database licensing alone in enterprise shops to more than pay for the costs of the new infrastructure. It also will provide increased control of system performance and improved operational flexibility with the ...
Cloud Services to Face Critical Test in 2013
Ed. note: On December 18th Wikibon Chief Analyst Dave Vellante, EMC Global Marketing CTO Chuck Hollis, and EMC SVP of Global Services Tom Roloff, spent 40 minutes in The Cube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfqu303CoWI in Marlborough, Mass., discussing the trends and events they expect in the coming year. The following is the second is a four-part series examining ...
Transition and Consolidation — Vellante, Hollis and Roloff Discuss 2013 Predictions
Ed. note: On December 18th Wikibon Chief Analyst Dave Vellante (right), EMC Global Marketing CTO Chuck Hollis (center), and ECM SVP of Global Services Tom Roloff (left), spent 40 minutes in The Cube in Marlborough, Mass., discussing the trends and events they expect in the coming year. The following is the first is a four-part ...
SolidFire SSD Arrays Quiet Noisy Neighbors for ViaWest Clients
On Tuesday, December 18, 2012, Mat Wallace, Director of Cloud Architecture at colocation and IaaS provider ViaWest, dropped by the Peer Incite meeting to discuss his company’s experiences and specifically how SSD array maker SolidFire provides a unique solution to the “noisy neighbor” problem. ViaWest was originally a colocation service provider that over the last several ...
Dell “Not the Company You Think it Is” Says IDC’s Del Prete
Dell is much more than the piece-part desktop and server supplier that many corporate executives believe it is, says IDC Chief Research Officer Crawford Del Prete. “They bought Perot systems, Compellent, Wyze, North End, Quest, to expand their footprint,” he says. Today Dell is expanding into Cloud services and has built a strong consulting organization. ...