Author: Mike Matchett

Bending Benchmarks: Oracle Zooms ZFS with ZS3 Storage Appliance

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

Oracle has come out today with the ZS3 series of its ZFS Storage Appliances. Sometimes a later act is just incremental, sometimes you can feel the ground move. Here …

EMC Drives at Price/Performance by Rebuilding VNX Guts

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

There is no doubt that vendors are hotly competing for all those exabytes of storage that IT is eating up these days. But yesterday’s storage platforms often can’t keep up …

VDI Market Begins to Coalesce – NComputing Provides Full Virtual Desktop Platform

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

NComputing has been quietly evolving its endpoint virtualization solutions into what could be a majorly disruptive broad platform solution. NComputing originally built up their business on the N-series Endpoint thin …

Myths surrounding big data technology

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchStorage.

Big data technology is a big deal for storage shops, and a clear understanding of what it means is required to configure storage for big data apps.


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Virtualizing Hadoop Impacts Big Data Storage

An IT industry analyst article published by Enterprise Storage Forum.

by Mike Matchett, Sr. Analyst, Taneja Group
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Hadoop is soon coming to enterprise IT in a big way. VMware’s new vSphere Big Data Extensions (BDE) commercializes its open source Project …

How Delicate is Your Virtual Egg Basket?

An IT industry analyst article published by Virtualization Review.

Server virtualization has taken us to places we’ve never been before, but there is some truth to that old adage about having seen it all before.

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