Author: Mike Matchett

The power and benefits of encouraging IT disruption

September 6, 2017

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchStorage.


article_The-power-and-benefits-of-encouraging-IT-disruptionIT can’t remain a reactive cost center and cheerful help desk, but must become a competitive, cutthroat service provider and powerful champion of emerging disruptive technology.

Mike Matchett
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Persistent data storage in containerized environments

September 1, 2017

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchStorage.


article_Persistent-data-storage-in-containerized-environmentsThe most significant challenge to the rise of containerized applications is quickly and easily providing enterprise-class persistent storage for containers.

Mike Matchett

The pace of change in IT is staggering. Fast growing …

A serverless architecture could live in your data center

July 1, 2017

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchITOperations.


article_A-serverless-architecture-could-live-in-your-data-centerJust because you don’t see the server doesn’t mean it’s not there. Serverless frameworks are superseding containers, but is the extra abstraction worth it?

Mike Matchett

Have you figured out everything you …

Spark speeds up adoption of big data clusters and clouds

July 1, 2017

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchITOperations.


article_Spark-speeds-up-adoption-of-big-data-clusters-and-cloudsInfrastructure that supports big data comes from both the cloud and clusters. Enterprises can mix and match these seven infrastructure choices to meet their needs.

Mike Matchett

If enterprise IT has been …

Machine learning algorithms make life easier — until they don’t

June 1, 2017

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchITOperations.


article_Machine-learning-algorithms-make-life-easier-until-they-dontAlgorithms govern many facets of our lives. But imperfect logic and data sets can make results worse instead of better, so it behooves all of us to think like data scientists.…

I’m Going Fission

May 16, 2017

I just spent a couple of weeks in Boston at Red Hat Summit and OpenStack Summit.  Containers are clearly the big thing this year – Kubernetes, Openshift, etc. And increasingly, IT is learning how to take advantage of remote Management …

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