Posts Tagged Storage

The Transformation of HP [Infographic]

Posted by David Vellante in Cloud Computing, Convergence, HP, Infrastructure 2.0, memeconnect, Storage on June 2, 2011


Transformation of HP

Transformation of HP

Last month, we continued our series of infographics by taking a look at the differences in large data centers as well as the current and future size of cloud computing.  While cloud computing is on what appears to be an unstoppable growth path, with Amazon’s services alone expected to grow to $2.54 billion in revenue by 2014, the outlook remains fragile. With high profile security hacks at Sony, RSA and Lockheed Martin; and Amazon’s prolonged outage, many CIOs remain reticent to push too fast on the cloud for fear of damaging company reputations and compromising customer privacy. Indeed, while the majority of IT organizations within Wikibon report moving toward the cloud, a large proportion (37%) either have no clear cloud computing strategy or still believe cloud is a meaningless buzzword.

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Thank You Wikibon Community for Great VMware Survey Participation

Posted by Stuart Miniman in Virtualization, Wikibon on April 29, 2011


As a follow up to research from last year (The Value of the VMware Integration Journey), Wikibon recently ran a survey of our community to collect user experiences and preferences for storage integration with VMware. We were thrilled with the support from the community and the quality and depth of the responses that we received. The primary method of gathering results was through a direct email to the Wikibon community. In addition, I’d like to thank VMware, Dell, NetApp, HP, EMC and others for sharing the survey through various social channels.

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EMC Customer Support: Online Tools for a Changing Landscape

Posted by Doug Chandler in Storage, Wikibon on April 6, 2011


When it was known more commonly as “product technical support” a decade ago, most IT customers (and their suppliers) focused on a handful of key issues: Is the coverage 24×7?  Does it cover me in multiple geographies?  How long is the warranty on various devices, and what does the maintenance contract look like when the warranty is done?  Important questions in an historically low-profile part of IT.

As we move towards a new world of converged infrastructure, cloud services and Big Data, the old technical support paradigm is being replaced by something known more broadly as “customer care.”  It’s a euphemism, but it also describes a sea-change in the role of support services.  The contrast between the old days and 2011 is striking:

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Inside The Data Center Technology Powering Six Top Social Media Sites

Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on July 26, 2010


If you are even a semi-regular user of Twitter you no doubt have encountered the Fail Whale at some point. With 300,000 new accounts created every day and 600 tweets per second (or TPS in Twitter parlance), the need for robust and optimized infrastructure is critical for Twitter. Thus, it is no surprise that the company is building its own data center later this year.

That news had the Wikibon community thinking:

What other types of data center technology are powering today’s high profile social media websites?

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Infrastructure Cubed

Posted by Stuart Miniman in Cloud Computing, Infrastructure 2.0, Storage, Virtualization on June 2, 2010


Hi – this is my first blog post on the Wikibon site, so let me introduce myself.

My name is Stuart Miniman – you can call me Stu – and I am a new Principal Research Contributor here at Wikibon.  I have worked in high-tech my entire career.  Most recently, ten years at EMC, focused on storage networking and virtualization technologies.  See my LinkedIn profile for more on my background.

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20 Key Research Notes from the Wikibon Community

Posted by David Vellante in CIO Perspectives, Cloud Computing, Competition, IBM, Infrastructure 2.0, memeconnect, Storage, Virtualization, Web 2.0, Wikibon on April 28, 2010


The Wikibon community prides itself on its research. Our community’s primary goal has been in helping technology professionals solve business problems through a sharing of IT advisory knowledge. We do this through regular Peer Incites, case studies, and community research.

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Infrastructure Strategies: A Discussion Among Practitioners

Posted by David Vellante in Infrastructure 2.0, Storage, Wikibon on March 19, 2010


Application Stacks or Hardware?

 

I’m getting pumped up for next week’s Wikibon Peer Incite (Tues 3/23 @ 12 noon EST). One of our guests is Omer Perra. Omer used to be the CIO of Aetna International and Joseph E Seagram. He, David Floyer and I have been doing some research these past few months with CIO’s, application heads and infrastructure leaders. We conducted some pretty in-depth interviews with these constituents along with Exchange and Oracle practitioners.    

We had three goals:    

  1. To understand how these constituents were making infrastructure decisions (i.e. what are the business drivers and objectives they are trying to meet).
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Infrastructure Wars: The Battle Brewing in the Storage Industry

Posted by David Vellante in Storage, Wikibon on February 10, 2010


How Google, Microsoft and Oracle are Driving Competition in the Storage Industry 

Application Stack vs Array

 

What you Need to Know 

There is a competitive battle brewing in the on-premise storage business and it’s not between EMC/NetApp or EMC/IBM. It’s stemming from a move by independent software vendors specifically Microsoft and Oracle, to bundle more storage function into their application stacks, push storage function closer to the host and commoditize the storage hardware layer. The move to integrate storage function into the application stack is real and in some cases can add substantial value to organizations. But there is a price to pay and IT executives need to understand the strategies and implications for long term success. Underpinning these trends is Google’s decade long march toward simplification and cloud services; which is not only driving software vendors like Microsoft crazy; it’s also causing them to drive down perceived costs wherever possible and grab as much value in their stacks as they can. 

Here’s the bottom line. IT execs have three choices:

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