Opinion

Opinion

• Post-acquisition strategy and why storage mergers go bad

  NetApp-SolidFire and HPE-SimpliVity cuts illustrate some of the pitfalls awaiting large vendors when they spend hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars on acquisitions.  Continue Reading

• Hybrid cloud vs. hyper-converged: Hybrid wins hands down

  When everything goes to cloud, why do you even need HCI? Who cares where server, storage, virtualization and networking are when IT adopts a 'run any app from anyplace' strategy?  Continue Reading

• World of technology changed forever by the pandemic

  While most of the events of a remarkable 2020 would not be welcome again, changes to the IT and storage landscape will stay with us for the foreseeable future.  Continue Reading

• Modern HCI environment shaped by evolving IT priorities

  Hyper-convergence simplified deployment and scaling of IT resources over the past decade, but modern IT is far more complex than it once was. HCI vendors evolved, but have you?  Continue Reading

• WFH technologies prosper with ongoing remote access needs

  The work-from-home cat is out of the bag, and many skeptical executives have now seen its benefits, boosting markets for technologies like VPN, VDI, HCI that make it all possible.  Continue Reading

• HCI vs. traditional IT vs. dHCI vs. composable infrastructure

  Compare outcomes of hyper-converged, traditional/converged, disaggregated HCI and composable infrastructures, plus hybrid cloud, to decide which approach best fits your IT needs.  Continue Reading

• Infrastructure modernization via hyper-convergence can equal success

  How hyper-convergence can help modernize IT infrastructures to better meet challenges like the digital transformation of the business and the adoption of edge computing.  Continue Reading

• How is HCI market fragmentation affecting buyers, vendors?

  An increasingly crowded market and the technological limitations of standard HCI have led to innovative new takes on hyper-convergence to the benefit of vendors and buyers alike.  Continue Reading

• Explore compelling benefits of hyper-converged infrastructure

  Better support remote office/branch office environments and address budgetary, efficiency, scaling and operational challenges with hyper-converged infrastructure.  Continue Reading

• 3 elements to consider for a hybrid cloud deployment

  Hybrid cloud uptake is increasing, as organizations demand greater infrastructure freedom across on- and off-premises environments and more control over the application layer.  Continue Reading

• Larger, expandable HCI nodes bring big infrastructure benefits

  Discover why a larger node strategy enables enterprises to better consolidate workloads in a hyper-converged infrastructure environment while reducing complexity and cost.  Continue Reading

• When converged and hyper-converged -- and cloud -- converge

  Price, ease of management and use cases should determine if you use hyper-converged, converged infrastructure or on-premises public cloud stacks. There are differences, however.  Continue Reading

• Hyper-converged infrastructure benefits by reducing IT complexity

  Businesses turn to hyper-convergence to reduce data center complexity so IT can more directly support business goals and capitalize on the value of data.  Continue Reading

• Hyper-converged technology ready for next step, multi-cloud

  The height of the next hyper-converged infrastructure wave will revolve more around finding the right use cases rather than the right technology and architecture.  Continue Reading

• Definition of hyper-converged infrastructure evolves, as do products

  Defining hyper-convergence can be a challenge. Focus instead on learning about hyper-converged infrastructure product options and how they fit your data center and cloud plans.  Continue Reading

• Cohesity's hyper-converged secondary storage takes on data growth

  An out-of-the-box secondary storage strategy to deal with the coming deluge of file and object data promises to overcome scalability, management and capacity limits of NAS.  Continue Reading

• Why do Azure Stack appliances have to be certified?

  Azure MVP Marius Sandbu gives us a lesson on Azure Stack.  Continue Reading

• What's the future of data storage technology and the IT pro?

  Several enterprise data storage trends are all about getting rid of storage as an IT silo. That will have consequences for both the industry and IT pros who work in it.  Continue Reading

• Virtual machine hypervisor doesn't play a critical role in HCI choice

  Hyper-converged infrastructure is about simplifying IT administration, so organizations should be after simple, automated hypervisor configuration and management.  Continue Reading

• Are hypervisor tools products or features?

  As converged and hyper-converged infrastructures grow in popularity, hypervisors function more like features of overall IT architectures than they do as stand-alone products.  Continue Reading

• IT storage administrator sees more business than bytes

  The days of the storage guru may be winding down, and yet, while some storage skills have become obsolete, the storage administrator is no less important to bottom line.  Continue Reading

• It's time to rethink the software-defined storage market

  We've become too hung up on the software part of software-defined storage architecture at the expense of what matters most, the benefits of the technology.  Continue Reading

• NetApp HCI: Kind of, sort of, but not really hyper-converged

  NetApp's hyper-converged appliance isn't technically HCI, but it suits the same use cases and offers other advantages, such as smarter scaling through disaggregation.  Continue Reading

• Hyper-converged infrastructure products give data centers a boost

  Hyper-converged products take your data center and network to new heights by leveraging industry-first infrastructure innovations to improve storage and more.  Continue Reading

• Implementing a hyper-converged network is still a pipe dream

  HCI vendors would like to integrate network features with storage, compute and virtualization. In this opinion piece, learn why a hyper-converged network has yet to materialize.  Continue Reading

• Hyper-converged hardware to become more powerful, modular in 2017

  As converged and hyper-converged infrastructure find more enterprise use cases, one may start to look more like the other.  Continue Reading

• What to expect from HCI software vendors in 2017

  Hyper-converged software vendors have historically worked only with specific hardware makers, but a more open market could simplify and drive down the cost of deploying HCI.  Continue Reading

• What's to come for CI, HCI products and vendors in 2017

  Market consolidation and cloud integration are inevitable for many burgeoning technologies. HCI and converged products are no different.  Continue Reading

• Examining the state of the hyper-converged infrastructure market

  HCI market leaders have emerged, but some question how long they'll retain their hold over the rapidly evolving segment.  Continue Reading

• Competitive market pushes converged infrastructure vendors forward

  Competition among converged infrastructure vendors will lead to winners and losers, but the biggest winner of all will be customers.  Continue Reading

• Hyper-converged platforms grow to include secondary storage space

  Storage vendors are leveraging existing technologies to build products to help hyper-converged systems tackle secondary storage.  Continue Reading

• Hyper-converged appliances become hyper-consolidated

  IBM mainframe shows path hyper-converged market is taking toward more manageable and cost-efficient hyper-consolidated IT infrastructure.  Continue Reading

• Hyper-converged vendors offer new use cases, products

  Hyper-converged market systems show they are ready to branch out beyond primary storage applications. In fact, it's happening now.  Continue Reading

• Navigate today's hyper-converged market

  The hyper-converged market is rife with products from competing vendors, making choosing a hyper-converged system a difficult proposition.  Continue Reading

• Debating the distributed vs. centralized storage system

  Hyper-converged and software-defined storage are great technologies, but they must embrace centralized and distributed ops in a single environment.  Continue Reading

• The hyper-converged infrastructure bandwagon picks up speed

  Hyper-converged systems are quickly gaining attention -- and sales -- because they offer many advantages over traditional storage products.  Continue Reading