Category: IT News Blog

Storage Tiers or Tears?

I always enjoy reading StorageNewsletter and in particular the insights of Philippe Nicolas. His recent article on Storage Tiering (“Tier or Not Tier”) is a fairly complete overview of the history of the companies involved and the broad technical evolution …

Insights In Black and White

From everything we hear here at Small World Big Data, many of you prefer our analyst video content, but still many of you are also fans (I’m humbled even writing that much!) of my analyst writings – both in-depth reports …

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Announcing New Competitive Market Research with Jeff Byrne

I don’t mean we are competing with other market research (although we clearly do), but here at Small World Big Data we are extremely pleased to be working again with Jeff Byrne on hard-core market research for competitive marketing needs. …

HyperConverged v.s. Hybrid Cloud

Has someone been telling you that HyperConverged Infrastructure, known as HCI, is the same thing as Hybrid Cloud infrastructure? Yeah? Well, no, it’s not. I just published a longer article on how they are related (and are also very different) …

The Winner’s Problem – Technical Legacies and Legacy Technology

Part 3 in a series of posts about Data Protection as a Service… (Also posted on Cobalt Iron’s blog)

Mike Matchett, Small World Big Data

When a business is deemed successful it’s often because of great people doing awesome

Can You Really Afford Reliable Data Protection?

Part 2 in a series of posts about Data Protection as a Service… (Also posted on Cobalt Iron’s blog)

Mike Matchett, Small World Big Data

In IT there are well-known (and never 100% avoidable) risks that justify rock solid …