Because nothing is certain 
Perhaps lost somewhat in all of the VMworld buzz this week was Nasuni’s announcement that it is offering a free cloud gateway to companies in regions vulnerable to hurricanes. It’s not free forever – you get three months of gateway service free if you sign up between now and November 30th. Users still need to [...]
I spent two days this week at the Oracle systems and storage industry analyst event. I never thought I’d type those words, Oracle systems and storage. I am not sure what I expected–there are stories, mostly from competitors, about disillusioned Sun employees fleeing Oracle in droves, so I think I expected to see some signs [...]
TwinStrata unveiled its company and strategy today, positioning itself as a cloud storage enablement platform that lets users tap into an intelligent storage cloud. Cloud storage holds tremendous promise as a way for IT to significantly drive down both CAPEX and OPEX, but the reality is that cloud storage is new and unproven. Most cloud [...]
NetApp issued a couple of interesting press releases last month. It started the month of March with an announcement that it had shipped more than 30,000 SAN deployments worldwide, and ended the month with an announcement that it has deployed more than 150,000 unified storage systems. In fact, according to NetApp, in Q3 FY10 more [...]
Not sure how this will work out. It’s my first time presenting here, but on Thursday I am presenting at an online virtualization summit put on by BrightTALK. My talk will be about how virtualized scale-out NAS enables flexible, on-demand data services. If you haven’t noticed, I have been spending a lot of time on [...]
I have not blogged for a while; we’ve been busy putting all the pieces in place to kick off a new multi-client research project on scale-out storage adoption in enterprise IT. In my January brief on unstructured data trends for 2010, I listed continued interest in scale-out platforms as the number one trend to watch. [...]
The best part of the MA special senatorial election is that it’s over – my home phone has been ringing for the past month with calls from both sides, from Tea Party Republicans to President Obama, urging me to vote for their candidate. And whether or not you agree with the outcome, there are lessons [...]
It didn’t take too long for the blogosphere to get enough pressure on Microsoft for it to take the NDA language off of the Azure cloud storage service SLA website. Two days after I blogged, the topic was picked up by The Register (here) and blogged about here by Roger Jennings at Oakleaf Systems. Blogger and consultant [...]
1/21/2010 – UPDATE to the story below: Microsoft removed the NDA language from the Azure cloud services website – see my most recent blog for details! Over the course of business today I was stunned to come across this: Digging into Microsoft Azure cloud storage services, I went looking for the SLA. Microsoft posts the SLA [...]
I am borrowing heavily from my ESG colleague Steve O’Donnell for this blog. If you don’t know him you should, Steve is the managing director of our EMEA practice and writes the very popular blog The Hot Aisle. Before joining ESG Steve was an SVP of IT Operations at a very big company – his [...]
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