Steve McDowell, Patrick Moorhead

Infinidat Delivers Mission-Critical Storage To Every Size Enterprise

By / Big Data and Storage, Research / September 20, 2022

Infinidat is perhaps the best-kept secret in the storage industry. Over the past decade, the company has quietly delivered some of the most performant and reliable storage that you can buy to serve the needs of high-capacity, high-performance, mission-critical workloads. But the secret is getting out, and organizations of every size are adopting Infinidat’s storage …

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RESEARCH PAPER: Infinidat Brings Mission-Critical Storage To Every Enterprise

By / Research, Research Papers / August 31, 2022

Infinidat’s journey through the storage industry has been unique. Where other enterprise infrastructure providers may begin with a modest offering and scale up over time, Infinidat has taken the opposite approach. The company serves the high-capacity, high- performance needs of the mission-critical workloads prevalent across the Fortune 1000. You can download the paper by clicking on …

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New Oracle Database Platforms And Services Deliver Outstanding Cloud Benefits

By / Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Research / August 21, 2022

Let’s talk about Oracle’s successful and expanding investment in cloud infrastructure. The company just celebrated its 45th anniversary, beat Wall Street’s estimated revenue in its fiscal fourth quarter, and showed its highest organic revenue growth rate in over a decade. The company is clearly doing a lot of things its customers like.  Front-and-center to Oracle’s …

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Pure Storage’s Updated Portfolio

By / Big Data and Storage, Datacenter, Research / July 25, 2022

A rare thing is happening at Pure Storage. The company, founded on the strength of one product and set of technologies, enterprise flash storage, has quietly become much more than simply another storage company. Instead, pure today is about delivering and managing data with a simple cloud-like operating model. While storage is critical to this …

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FlashCore V3 Enables IBM’s Storage Differentiation

By / Big Data and Storage, Research / July 25, 2022

I was nineteen years old, working my way through college at a big oil company, when IBM’s storage team taught me that some technology can seem like magic. Something the company continues to do today.  We were readying IBM’s new RT PC servers, its first production RISC machine, for deployment across a fleet of oil …

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Multi-Cloud Storage Center Stage At Dell Technologies World

By / Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Public cloud, Research / May 23, 2022

The battle between on-prem and public cloud infrastructure is over. That was the message that Michael Dell conveyed, kicking off the first in-person Dell Technologies World in three years. Who won that battle? The IT department did.  IT infrastructure is more expansive than it has ever been. Enterprise IT resources live on-prem. They also live …

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VAST Data Demonstrates Its Impressive Momentum

By / Big Data and Storage, Datacenter, Research / March 21, 2022

Data is changing. It floods into organizations with a volume and velocity previously unseen in enterprise IT. However, transforming that data into business-impacting insights stresses even the most sophisticated of today’s storage systems – storage systems based on an architecture that has remained relatively unchanged for more than two decades.  VAST Data emerged less than …

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RESEARCH PAPER: VAST Data Set To Become the Foundation Of An AI-Powered World

By / Research, Research Papers / April 13, 2022

VAST Data was founded only five years ago by a group of storage veterans who realized that the rapidly evolving world of storage technology wasn’t utilized to its fullest potential. The group believed that they could do better and, as a result, defined VAST’s mission “to bring an end to decades of complexity and application …

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RESEARCH PAPER: Inside The World’s Fastest Database Machine – Oracle Exadata X9M

By / Research, Research Papers / January 13, 2022

It may seem obvious to state that a database that supports a business-critical application should run on a platform tuned to exploit the full capabilities of that database. Yet time and again, IT organizations host their critical database applications on general-purpose servers, hoping that the performance is good enough to keep those business-critical applications running. …

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Pure Storage Elevates FlashArray To Storage’s Top Tier

By / Big Data and Storage, Datacenter, Research / January 10, 2022

Enterprise IT is in the throes of an information explosion. Every prediction over the past decade about the year-over-year exponential explosion of data has come true. The big side-effect of digital transformation is that we are all awash in data, all waiting to provide business value.  Enterprise workloads with high capacity and performance requirements often …

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Oracle’s New Exadata X9M Looks Disruptive

By / Datacenter, Research / October 29, 2021

Oracle already delivered what may be the fastest OLTP database machine ever built when it brought the Exadata X8M to market just over a year ago. However, today the company bested itself when it unveiled the new Oracle Exadata X9M. The X9M is a significant leap over what came before. This is a machine engineered …

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Pure Storage Continues To Simplify Data Management

By / Big Data and Storage, Datacenter, Research / October 29, 2021

The storage industry is in a moment of continuous disruption. This current period of innovation and change is unique because it’s no longer all about the hardware. Where we once gathered quarterly, eagerly awaiting bigger, faster, denser storage technologies – I want my NVMe – we now pine for something much different.  Cloud has changed …

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IBM’s Multi-Cloud Strategy Backed By New Storage Capabilities

By / Big Data and Storage, Datacenter, Research / October 29, 2021

Last week Arvind Krishna, IBM’s chief executive and chairman for the past eighteen months, told a virtual roomful of financial and industry analysts that IBM’s strategy is one that’s laser-focused on helping enterprises navigate the next level of digital transformation. This next level of change is fueled by a rich mix of hybrid-cloud and artificial …

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RESEARCH PAPER: Deploying Multi-Cloud With Nutanix And Lenovo ThinkAgile HX

By / Research, Research Papers / October 27, 2021

IT infrastructure has become incredibly complex. Enterprise architecture has evolved from the traditional hub-and-spoke model of a centralized data center into a rich mix of on-premises servers and storage, public cloud, private cloud, and even edge computing. You can download the paper by clicking on the logo below: Table Of Contents The Evolving IT Landscape …

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Dell Technologies Brings AI To The Edge

By / Edge Computing, Research / September 28, 2021

The job of an IT architect or administrator becomes more complex with each passing day. It hasn’t been that long since an IT staff only had to deal with the resources found inside the walls of the enterprise. Today things are different. IT organizations must address the needs of a remote workforce, multi-cloud integration, and …

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rESEARCH PAPER: Delivering The AI-Enabled Edge With Dell Technologies

By / Research, Research Papers / August 24, 2021

Nurses in a hospital depend on edge devices to monitor and interpret signals from dozens of sensors that alert them when a patient needs attention. Edge devices in a chemical refinery predict, in real time, equipment failures before they occur by continuously analyzing hundreds of data points. Cameras inside a retail store notice that inventory …

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IBM Beefs Up Its Cyber-Resilient Storage

By / Big Data and Storage, Cybersecurity, Datacenter, Research / August 5, 2021

It’s an exciting time for those of us who work in the IT industry. It seems like that no matter where you look, you will find a disruptive technology or trend shaking things up. Some of these are good, others not so much.  Affordable high-speed 5G connectively extends our data centers to the edge while cloud …

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Nutanix Demonstrates That It’s More Than Just HCI On Investor Day

By / Datacenter, Hybrid cloud, Research / July 16, 2021

Rarely does a senior executive of a dominant company step aside to lead his biggest competitor. Yet that’s precisely what Rajiv Ramaswami, then VMware’s chief operating officer of products and cloud services, did late last year when he accepted the chief executive role at Nutanix. I was fortunate to talk with Rajiv at Nutanix’s investor …

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Pure Storage Evolves The Digital Experience For Data

By / Datacenter, Research / May 26, 2021

Pure Storage will tell you that simplifying storage and data management is its core mission. Evolving an enterprise’s digital experience guides nearly everything the company does. Pure delivers to this mission by providing an increasingly intelligent set of integrated products and solutions.   Pure’s products and solutions are all aligned to the idea that you can’t …

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APEX Takes Dell Beyond Just Storage-As-A-Service

By / Big Data and Storage, Datacenter, Research / May 26, 2021

The public cloud providers have spoiled IT architects.  The convenience of opening a web browser and deploying resources without actually needing to buy any expensive servers or storage arrays is unmatched in the history of enterprise IT.   At the same time, placing all of your workloads in the public cloud is not the solution to …

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