Author: Mike Matchett

Diamanti Reveals Hyperconverged Scale-out Appliances for Containers

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

Diamanti (pre-launch known as Datawise.io) has recently rolled out their brand new hyperconverged “container” appliances. Why would containers, supposedly able to be fluidly hosted just about anywhere, need a specially …

CI and disaggregated server tech can converge after all

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchDataCenter.


I’ve talked about the inevitability of infrastructure convergence, so it might seem like I’m doing a complete 180 degree turn by introducing the opposite trend of infrastructure: aggregation. Despite appearances, disaggregated server …

Evaluating hyper-converged architectures: Five key CIO considerations

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchCio.


Plain IT convergence offers IT organizations a major convenience — integrated and pre-assembled stacks of heterogeneous vendor infrastructure, including servers, storage and networking gear, that help accelerate new deployments and quickly support …

Big Data Enterprise Maturity

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

It’s time to look at big data again. Last week I was at Cloudera’s growing and vibrant annual analyst event to hear the latest from the folks who know what’s …

Google Drives a Stake Into The Human Heart? – AlphaGo Beats Human Go Champion

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

Google’s AlphaGo program has just whipped a top human Go playing champion (Lee Sedol – a 9 Dan ranked pro and winner of many top titles) four games to one …

Accelerating Cloud Transformation with Microsoft StorSimple’s New Virtual Appliance

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

We’ve always admired StorSimple from before Microsoft acquired them. And what was Microsoft up to, getting into the storage infrastructure space?  Well, if it wasn’t apparent before it is now …