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Dell Brings New Vision of Highly Automated, Enterprise-level Storage at SMB Prices
Dell is in transition in the storage market from being primarily a reseller of other vendor’s projects to becoming a true storage company that makes its own hardware and software to fit its vision of the future, says Carter George, Executive Director of Dell’s Storage Strategy. That vision is of an advanced, automated, integrated portfolio ...
HP “All In On Big Data.” More Acquisitions Ahead?
HP has watched Big Data develop over several years and believes that it will cause major disruption in the storage and systems market, says Manoj Goyal, Senior Director of Data Management Solutions in HP’s Enterprise Group. As a result, “HP is all in on Big Data,” he said in an interview in The SiliconAngle Cube at ...
HP Services Head Sees Exciting Times Ahead
“This is a very exciting time in the industry,” says Antonio Neri, senior VP and general manager of HP Technical Services. Most HP customers, he said in an interview in the SiliconAngle Cube at HP Discover 2012 (full video below), are still running traditional IT environments and are in some stage of virtualizing their data ...
Storwize with IBM Real-Time Compression Best-of-Breed [Report]
The highlight of the recent IBM Edge 2012 storage conference, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in his latest Wikibon Alert, was the announcement of the addition of the IBM RTC (real-time compression) appliance to the mid-range Storwize V7000 unified storage array. The addition of this inline compression appliance, ironically the technology developed by Storwize and ...
Public Networks Facing a Capacity Crisis, Warns Intel GM
Just about the only thing that Intel Data Center Group General Manager Pauline Nist worries about in the future of IT is that the Internet is facing a capacity crisis. And with the huge growth in traffic from mobile devices, and the carriers promising 4G and 5G service, she only expects the problem to get ...
HP is “That Partner You Need” Says DAS CIO
Diversified Agency Services (DAS), the largest company in the Omnicom Group, is the ultimate in federated organizations, made up of more than 100 totally independent agencies that provide customer relationship management, public relations/public affairs, and specialty communications. As CIO of DAS, Jason Cohen has been unifying the IT groups from each of these agencies into ...
Server Virtualization Not the Answer says DR Planning Consultant
Is server virtualization the answer to utilization and IT budgetary problems that it is widely purported to be? No, says prominent blogger, consultant and 26-year DR planning veteran John W. Tiogo, founder of Tiogo Partners International. “The preponderance of virtualized systems are low-traffic Web servers and file servers that don’t need virtualization at all,” he ...
PureSystems Attempts to Balance Cost Savings with Flexibility, says IBM Engineer
Single SKU integrated systems such as the new PureSystems from IBM can save four-to-five orders-of-magnitude in total cost versus traditional custom-built systems says Jason McGee, IBM distinguished engineer who was deeply involved in the multi-year development of IBM’s PureSystems. “Basically IT organizations developed a model for building custom systems to meet the needs of their ...
Oracle Comes Up Short in Detailed Comparison of Exadata vs. Best-of-Breed
Wikibon Co-Founder and CTO David Floyer is definitely not on Larry Ellison’s Christmas card list this year. Not satisfied with his original exposition of the limited value of Oraclea week ago, Floyer has co-published a detailed, item-by-item examination of why it falls short with Wikibon Analyst Nick Allen. Titled “Comparing Oracle Exadata Storage with Best-of-Breed ...
Can IBM Get Back their Storage Mojo? Truskowski Tells All [Video]
IBM takes a unified approach to storage, servers, software, and service, IBM General Manager for Storage and Networking Brian Truskowski said in an interview in the SiliconAngle Cube at IBM’s first formal storage conference, IBM Edge (see full video below). “We’re focused on innovation and integration at the same time…. Our ability to integrate our ...