Category: IT News Blog

Oracle ZS5 Throws Down a Cloud Ready Gauntlet

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

Is anyone in storage really paying close enough attention to Oracle? I think too many mistakenly dismiss Oracle’s infrastructure solutions as expensive, custom and proprietarily Oracle database-only hardware. But, surprise, …

Do ROI Calculators Produce Real ROI?

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

As both a vendor product marketer and now an analyst, I’ve often been asked to help produce an “official” ROI (or the full TCO) calculator for some product. I used …

Hyperconverged Storage Evolves – Or is it Pivoting When it Comes to Pivot3?

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

Pivot3 recently acquired NexGen (Mar 2016). Many folks have been wondering what they are doing. Pivot3 has made a name in the surveillance/video vertical with bulletproof hyperconvergence based on highly …

We Can No Longer Contain Containers!

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

Depsite naysayers (you know who you are!) I’ve been saying this is the year for containers, and half way into 2016 it’s looking like I’m right. The container community is …

Unifying Big Data Through Virtualized Data Services – Iguaz.io Rewrites the Storage Stack

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

One of the more interesting new companies to arrive on the big data storage scene is iguaz.io. The iguaz.io team has designed a whole new, purpose-built storage stack that can …

Server Side Is Where It’s At – Leveraging Server Resources For Performance

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

If you want performance, especially in IO, you have to bring it to where the compute is happening. We’ve recently seen Datrium launch a smart “split” array solution in which …