News & Analysis

Big Data Appliance Wrapped Up for the Enterprise

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

Here we are in Santa Clara eagerly awaiting Strata tomorrow and a slew of new of Big Data solutions. Hadoop’s R+D infant years are passing, and now it is of …

Is Virtualization Stalled On Performance?

An IT industry analyst article published by Virtualization Review.

Virtualization and cloud architectures are driving great efficiency and agility gains across wide swaths of the data center, but they can also make it harder to deliver consistent performance to critical …

Cloud has a silver lining for ROBO storage

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchDataBackup.

Providing and managing storage for remote and branch offices can be a challenge, but a hybrid approach using local and cloud-based storage may be the best solution.

article_Cloud-has-a-silver-lining-for-ROBO-storageStorage managers know that providing …

Are You Making Money With Your Object Storage?

An IT industry analyst article published by Infostor.

by Mike Matchett, Sr. Analyst and Consultant
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Object storage has long been pigeon-holed as a necessary overhead expense for long-term archive storage—a data purgatory one step before tape or deletion. We have …

It’s Big Data Warfare – Good versus Evil

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

Whether your data hacker worldview is in terms of “black hat” v.s. “white hat” (or Gandalf’s early grey), “us” v.s. “them”, or, as in the military, “blue” v.s. “red” (the …

Enterprise IT Will Dive Into Big Data Solutions in 2013

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

If you are in IT, 2013 is going to be the year that you will want to dive into the “big data” pool if you haven’t been pushed in already. …