Nvidia has enjoyed a massive increase in revenues over the last couple of years as server and public cloud suppliers rush to address AI applications by coupling its GPUs into x86 servers. Seemingly IBM missed the boat – offloading its System x business to Lenovo in October 2013 – just […] Read more »
IBM’s Q4 2019 announcements – storage for the AI and container workloads you want to run
Following closely on the heels of the DS8900 launch last month, IBM announced some major storage products (both hardware and software) today at the TechU conference in Prague. My analysis here is based not only on briefing material from Eric Herzog and his team, but also from my visit to […] Read more »
Aparavi addresses the growth of unstructured data and data protection regulations
A quick look at Aparavi - a supplier of software for data retention and archiving. Read more »
Data management challenges in a regulated, hybrid, multi-cloud world
The challenges of data management in 2018 Read more »
8. Storage commoditisation puts more suppliers out of business
My eighth 2018 prediction is about how the rapid exponential growth in raw storage capacities is making a nonsense of most storage system supplier strategies. Read more »
IBM adds new all-flash hardware to its evolving software defined storage strategy
A look at IBM's storage strategy and August product announcements Read more »
Storage systems down 2.5% in Q1 2016 – long term decline causes widespread consolidation
Storage systems markets continue to wane Read more »
Storage systems down 5% in 2015
Some market stats on the storage systems and component markets Read more »
2016 prediction 6 – Raw storage and services drive Big Data growth
For an update to this data please click here. Over the last few years there’s been shift in spending away from storage arrays and towards raw storage. I expect this to continue in 2016. In total the market will grow by 2% to $115B, with the strongest growth in raw […] Read more »
Zadara – A Cloud Approach For The Storage You Already Have
Zadara is a small storage company offering SAN and NAS storage through Cloud services Read more »
Basho Launches Riak 2.0 – Disruptive Distributed Databases
Basho's Riak is an Open Source database, Riak CS is Cloud storage software. It's added lots of new features in Version 2.0 Read more »
Hitachi Data Systems – Beyond Unified, Virtualised And Flash
HDS makes less noise than many systems vendors, but has some important server, storage and services offerings Read more »
IBM STG Turns To Software And Solutions In Its June 10th 2013 Announcements
We give a quick guide to the IBM STG announcements on June 10th 2013 Read more »
IBM Security – A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
In a complex, fragmented market with over 500 players IBM has a full and well thought out approach to IT security. We spent a day finding out. Read more »
IBM FlashSystem – Argues For Flash-Only Storage Systems
IBM announces its IBM FlashSystem arrays and argues strongly for the use of all-flash storage from a systems perspective Read more »
SolidFire – Quality Of Service For Multi-Tenanted Storage
SolidFire is adding Qaulity of Service to storage allowing Cloud Service Providers and aggregators to offer quaranteed performance for customers of multi-tenanted solutions Read more »
SAP Business Suite On HANA – The Shift To Real-Time ERP
SAP launches its Business Suite on HANA, stretching in-memory databases to industry sector ERP. Read our analysis. Read more »
ARM In Servers – Hyperscale Or Hyperbole?
What are the chances of success for ARM chips in servers? We weigh up the pros and cons Read more »
Hadoop And Big Data Enterprise Challenges
Hadoop - developments, public Cloud customers and the system suppliers' chances in unlocking business from enterprises Read more »
IBM’s Texas Memory Systems Acquisition – Integration And Virtualisation
Everyone knows SSD/flash memory is disruptive and important, but where to put it? For IBM the answer is to use its TMS acquisition to build it into integrated systems and under its SAN Volume Controller storage hypervisor Read more »