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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 …

Protecting All Data in a Complex World

   …(Also posted on Cobalt Iron’s blog)

Are you actually protecting all your important data today? Not “almost,” “just about”, or “we have plans,” but all of it?

And I don’t mean just your most mission-critical data sets, but any …

How do trends in primary storage affect secondary storage?

I caught up with Steve Pao at Igneous recently to chat again about the rise of secondary storage. Primary storage is great and all, but flash is everywhere – it’s old news.  In secondary storage, we are seeing a lot …