Steve McDowell, Patrick Moorhead

Multi-Cloud Storage Center Stage At Dell Technologies World

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

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

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

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

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

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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