Month: January 2014

Snakes in the Data Center: EMC ViPR Slithers In

(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)

Storage experts know that there are two ways to handle crushing data growth – the kind of growth that exceeds our traditional scale-up storage array capabilities (in one way or …

Enterprise Storage Projected to Branch Locations: Riverbed and IBM Team Up

(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)

I just had the pleasure of sitting with Rob Whitely from Riverbed and Michelle Tidwell from IBM to discuss their jointly validated solution that combines IBM enterprise class storage in …

Stop counting megabytes; it’s all about application-aware storage now

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchStorage.

Raw capacity numbers are becoming less useful as deduplication, compression and application-aware storage provide more value than sheer capacity.


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Whether clay pots, wooden barrels or storage arrays, vendors have always touted how …

External storage might make sense for Hadoop

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchStorage.

Using Hadoop to drive big data analytics doesn’t necessarily mean building clusters of distributed storage; a good old array might be a better choice.


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Using Hadoop to drive big data analytics doesn’t …