News & Analysis

Massive IOPS with Drops In Price-Performance – Early 2015 SPC-2 Standings

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

There is something quite interesting happening on the SPC-2 top 10 results page. Right now, HP (with XP7) and Kaminario, a hot all-flash solution, are leading the performance list. …

InfiniBand Updates Specs Preparing for 10000 Node Exascale Clusters

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

We’ve long been fans of InfiniBand, watching as new generations of enterprise class scale-out clusters and storage solutions learn from the HPC world how to achieve really high-speed interconnection. …

Are all software-defined storage vendors the same?

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchDataCenter.

What does software-defined storage mean? How is it implemented? And why does it matter for data center managers?


Software-defined storage is an overused and under-defined term, but the general idea is to …

New approaches to scalable storage

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchDataCenter.

With all these scalable storage approaches, IT organizations must evaluate the options against their data storage and analytics needs, as well as future architectures.


Unrelenting data growth has spawned new scalable storage …

Signs it may be time to adopt a hybrid cloud strategy

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchCloudStorage.

The cloud is gaining traction, but the public cloud raises security concerns. Learn why a hybrid cloud strategy can offer businesses more benefits.


If you’re like most data storage professionals, you’re likely …

How to become an internal hybrid cloud service provider

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchCloudStorage.

Working on a hybrid cloud project? Mike Matchett explains the steps an organization should take to become an internal hybrid cloud service provider.


One major key to success with a hybrid cloud …