Last week I had a speech at a small workshop in Italy around hyper-convergence. It was a group of more than…
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Unstructured Data Management, Where to Start
A few months ago I wrote a report about unstructured data management. And the introduction starts like this: “Unstructured data growth…
Read MoreHardware as a Service – Resellers Becoming Managed Service Providers
In an effort to mimic the cloud, vendors, as well as resellers, are switching to subscription-based sales models for hardware and,…
Read MoreHow Intel’s Newest Product Enhancements Could Redefine the Future of Infrastructure Design
On the 2nd of April, at their Data Centric Innovation Day, Intel announced a slew of new products, including brand spanking…
Read MoreThe Future of Software Innovation? Hardware-Enabled AI & ML Innovation
Hardware innovation is a fickle beast. It takes money, lots of money. It takes time, a great team, and execution in…
Read MoreHow IBM is Rethinking its Data Protection Line-Up
Following up on my take on the evolution of product and strategy of companies like Cohesity and NetApp, today I’d like…
Read MoreNetApp Data Availability Services Integrate On-Premises & Cloud as One
At the end of February 2019, at Storage Field Day 18, NetApp presented another tool aimed at integrating its on-premises solutions…
Read MoreDemocratizing Data Management
Lately, I’ve written a lot about data-management for unstructured data and more in general, about the relationship between data management and…
Read MoreThe Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)
HCI is very popular with organizations of all sizes now, but it’s not perfect! A compromise must be found between performance,…
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Five questions for… Keri Gilder, Chief Commercial Officer, Colt Technology Services. Can Connectivity be linked to Customer Experience?
Customer experience, or CX, is one of those areas that makes you wonder why it’s being discussed: after all, which organisation…
Read MoreCloud Storage Is Expensive? Are You Doing it Right?
In my day to day job, I talk to a lot of end users. And when it comes to the cloud,…
Read MoreGigaOm Infographic: Connectivity and Customer Experience
How can businesses use connectivity to drive improved CX for their customer? GigaOm asked 350+ strategic enterprise decision-makers from North America…
Read MoreIsn’t It Time to Rethink Your Cloud Strategy?
Last year, at Re:invent, Amazon AWS launched Outpost and finally validated the concept of hybrid-cloud. Not that it was really necessary,…
Read MoreFrom Data Protection to Data Management and Beyond
Just three weeks into 2019, Veeam announced a $500M funding round. The company is privately held, profitable and with a pretty…
Read MoreHybrid Cloud, IoT, Blockchain, AI/ML, Containers, and DevOps… Oh My!
When it rains it pours. It seems regarding Enterprise IT technology innovation, it is common for multiple game-changing innovations to hit…
Read MoreGitHub Actions: The Best Practice Game Changer
“GitHub? That’s a code repository, right?” said a friend, when I mentioned I was in San Francisco. GitHub Universe, the company’s…
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