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Last week I wrote about the "New Normal" in Storage and how I think we are looking at a future of much greater value (lower effective cost) and slow revenue/investment growth in storage. Today I wanted to outline what this means to the enterprise - how a storage buyer or administrator should adapt their organization's storage selection and consumption patterns to take advantage of market changes. 631...
The downturn in the economy and slow recovery has impacted IT spending. I've been thinking a lot about how this impacts storage companies and buyers and I conclude the market has undergone a permanent change where the most important buying lever is cost efficiency. Below, I illustrate four scenarios for storage revenue/expenditure growth in the future. Line A is the one we saw prior to 2008, where storage revenue followed an upward sloping fun...
I am joining my Permabit colleagues to offer additional perspective to the discussions from a product marketing venue. My first post addresses two markets that I have been involved with for much of my business career, Healthcare and Finance. The two most active topics in the news today are Healthcare and Wall Street. The impending regulatory changes in both of these industry segments will impact IT in very significant ways. In a recen...
For the first time in probably a dozen years, I'm not at SNW this week. Part of me is ecstatic to be home for once and part of me feels like I'm missing the reunion with the gang! My wife's business travel plans collided with mine for this week giving me the opportunity to stay at home with the kids. I can see some gourmet meals happening this week! While everyone else is in meetings this week, I thought I'd get caught up with some bloggin...
Until now, I've chosen to stay out of the little tempest in a teapot that's going on over at Chuck Hollis' blog, but it doesn't seem to be quieting down. He basically says that Data dedupe has no place on primary storage, which flies in the face of where the dedupe market is going... but it's not a bad position to take when you're company makes a lot of money off of very expensive primary storage. Their biggest NAS competitor took the bait, an...