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Taming the BIG DATA Beast

BIG DATA has come on very strong over the last several months. It's the new buzzword, the new topic du jour. Or, is it just a new name for Data Warehouse or Data Mart (oops! I said a 90's phrase..or two)? Last week, (2/16) Steve Duplessie wrote a blog on 'Why is Everyone so fired up About Big Data?' In his unique style Steve raised some great points and for the most part is correct in his assessment of 'WHY'. Simply put, he says that the big ...

BIG DATA It just may save your business …If you can afford it

In my last 3 posts I have addressed data growth, IT budgets and Storage Costs and Data Affordability. Data Optimization is emerging as the enabler to drive economic recovery through its ability to significantly improve storage and data efficiency and deliver IT budget relief. Today's Data Optimization is delivering performance and scalability that was not available in earlier generation data deduplication solutions. The result of this efficiency...

Dedupe 1.0 Requiem

As a follow on to my initial post on the pending Data Domain acquisition (by someone!), here are some additional thoughts (take 2!) For NetApp, they were basically left at the alter acknowledging to the world their product technology/portfolio shortcomings. They opted for the "buy" vs. "build" strategy. EMC has now one-upped them with an offer they basically can't counter with cash. We'll see if the latest NetApp counter of cash + stock holds w...

Great time to be an IT pro and storage buyer

Tom Cook, Permabit CEO Hello. I'm Tom Cook, CEO & President of Permabit Technology Corporation. Jered Floyd has been doing many blog posts regarding technology trends for the storage industry. I’m jumping in now to provide a bit of a different perspective. I’ll write about topics and issues I hear about when talking with enterprise IT and storage leaders. Despite the increasing pressures of managing the explosive growth of digital inform...