Author: Mike Matchett

Hyperconvergence for ROBOs and the Datacenter — Virtualization Review

An IT industry analyst article published by Virtualization Review.


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Convergence is a happy word to a lot of busy IT folks working long hours still standing up large complex stacks of infrastructure (despite having virtualized their legacy server sprawl), much …

Filling In With Flash – Tintri Offers Smaller All Flash For Hungry VMs

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

In 2015 we finally saw VVOLs start to roll out, yet VVOL support varies widely and so far hasn’t been as impressive as we’d have thought. Perhaps VMware’s own Virtual …

Time To Use The Force, IT! – OpsDataStore Unifies Systems Management Data

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

We are only a bit excited by the impending Star Wars release. How old were we when the first one came out? I’m not saying. We are all very excited …

Can your cluster management tools pass muster?

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchDataCenter.


A big challenge for IT is managing big clusters effectively, especially with bigger data, larger mashed-up workflows, and the need for more agile operations.

Cluster designs are everywhere these days. Popular examples …

Container technology’s role in storage

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchServerVirtualization.


Could containers dethrone virtual machines as the next generation compute architecture? I’ve heard many industry folks say that containers are moving faster into real deployments than almost any previous technology, driven by …

Flash storage market remains a tsunami

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchSolidStateStorage.


A few months ago, Taneja Group surveyed 694 enterprise IT folks (about half in management, half in architecture/operations) about their storage acceleration and performance needs, perceptions and plans. Of course, examining the …