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Cloudy Object Storage Mints Developer Currency

Having just been to VMWorld 2017 and getting pre-briefs for Strata Data NY coming up soon, I’ve noticed a few hot trends aiming to help foster cross-cloud, multi-cloud, hybrid operations. Among these are

  1. A focus on centralized management for both

What’s a Multi-cloud Really?  Some Insider Notes from VMworld 2017

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

As comfortable 65-70 degree weather blankets New England here as we near end of summer, flying into Las Vegas for VMworld at 110 degrees seemed like dropping into hell. Last …

The power and benefits of encouraging IT disruption

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchStorage.


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IT 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
Small World Big Data…

Persistent data storage in containerized environments

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchStorage.


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The 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

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchITOperations.


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Just 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

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchITOperations.


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Infrastructure 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 …