When three years ago Dell rolled out its Apex initiative, the massive IT supplier was joining a growing list of tech companies like HPE, Lenovo, and Cisco who were adapting to a rapidly expanding multicloud world by making their product portfolios available in a cloud-like, as-a-service model. …
A few years ago, DirectData Networks gave us a hint at the tectonic-like shifts that were emerging in datacenters at enterprises and high-end research institutions and were shaping the strategy of a company that had made its name in HPC with its parallel file system technology. …
Here is a question for you. Which is more proprietary? The Nutanix hyperconverged compute, storage, and networking platform or a cloud like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure? …
Companies have been working for years to pull together block, file, and object storage under a single umbrella, giving enterprises that are at times dealing with petabytes of data spread across datacenters, the cloud, and the edge a simpler way to manage, organize, and access all that information. …
If incumbent storage suppliers want to have a business in the hybrid cloud world, they have to find ways to erase the line between what’s in the cloud and what’s on-premises – and increasingly what’s at the edge. …
The central bankers of the world want to curb inflation by putting a serious crimp in demand, and it looks like they may get what they want – sort of – in 2023 when it comes to datacenter infrastructure. …
For many years, and quite a long time ago in computer time, Hadoop was seen as the best way to store and analyze mountains of unstructured data. …
High performance computing workloads simulating all manner of things can produce a veritable mountain of data that has to be sifted through. …
There is something weird about storage companies that were started around the same time as the Great Recession. …
The days of the disk drive have been numbered for so long that it is hard to take any prediction of its demise seriously. …
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