Dave Vellante
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Data centers touch all our lives. Businesses rely on data centers to house mission critical information and run operational initiatives across the organization.Today’s largest data centers feature state-of-the-art technology, operation rooms spanning thousands of square meters, and are required to hold billions …
Iron Mountain: Not Your Daddy’s Information Management Firm
I attended the Iron Mountain Analyst Event last night and today. It’s being held at the Liberty Hotel in Boston. The theme of the event is transformation and the venue is appropriate because it’s a very cool hotel, which is situated at …
LSI’s OEM Playbook
Why does LSI exist? In 2007, Bill Zeitler, former head of IBM’s Systems and Technology business said something to me that summed it up perfectly: “Industry revenue is growing at 9% and R&D spending is growing at 12%– we can’t afford to …
March Madness – Shifting Tides in the Data Center
It’s been an interesting first quarter. Cisco and HP dumping on each other last month, 3PAR turns up the heat in automated storage tiering and then HP’s two-day analyst event in March, followed up by EMC’s grand vision for federated storage and …
HP Storage Play? My HP V8 Moment
Wow—HP is finally getting its act together in storage. For years HP has talked about leveraging the systems and storage business but that vision has never materialized as a serious differentiator. Guess what? It’s finally happening. And there’s an added bonus, HP’s …
EMC Does the Vision Thing: Federated Virtualized Storage
Last October I wrote: “By late 2012, federated storage will be the architecture of choice for large new storage deployments. These capabilities will dramatically improve IT’s ability to respond to business needs with minimal disruptions. IT organizations should plan to aggressively adopt …