These are trying times, not least because corporate life needs to go on, which for millions of businesses means delivering compute…
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Was Your IT Infrastructure Ready for COVID-19?
Enrico Signoretti, GigaOm’s lead analyst on data storage and infrastructure, is based in Northern Italy. Lockdowns, quarantines, travel bans, restrictions on…
Read MoreThe Status of Object Storage
Last week NVIDIA announced the acquisition of SwiftStack, an object storage startup that, in the last year, refocused most of its…
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Extract, Load, Transform?
Even as technology changes, many things stay the same. Not least, in the world of enterprise-scale data processing, where massive volumes…
Read MoreIntroducing the GigaOm Radar
Introducing The GigaOm Radar I love working as a GigaOm Analyst because of its dynamism and the forward-looking philosophy that fuels…
Read MoreDell EMC PowerOne is Next-Gen Converged Infrastructure
At Storage Field Day 19, I attended two insightful sessions about DevOps and infrastructure automation, and they were both hosted by…
Read MoreThe Hard Disk is Dead! (But Only in Your Datacenter)
During Storage Field Day, one of the most interesting sessions was with Western Digital. It was a 4-hour long session, so…
Read MoreTiers, Tiers, and More Storage Tiers
Last week I attended Storage Field Day 19. As it always happens at these events there are trends that you can…
Read MoreStorage Field Day 19 RoundUp
Next week I’ll be attending Storage Field Day 19. As you probably already know this event is part of the Tech…
Read MoreGigaOm Analysts Share Their 2020 Predictions for Enterprise IT
Here at GigaOm we’re looking at how leading-edge technologies impact the enterprise, and what organizations can do to gear up for…
Read MoreData Center ARM-ification is Around the Corner
Nowadays, ARM CPUs are the predominant choice for everything outside the data center. Even some PCs are now based on this…
Read MoreHardware-as-a-Service Isn’t the Future of On-Prem IT
Every hardware vendor in the world now is pushing for Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS). Even though I agree that software-as-a-service (SaaS)-like subscriptions are…
Read MoreMoney, Money, Money
“I work all night, I work all day, to pay the bills I have to pay Ain’t it sad And still…
Read MoreNetApp Fabric Orchestrator, One More Step in the Right Direction
NetApp has made a huge strategy shift a few years ago and has been transitioning from being a traditional storage company…
Read MoreThe Importance of User Interfaces in IT Infrastructure Management
IT is all about APIs and Automation now, but I think that sometimes we forget we are humans. User interfaces help…
Read MoreEdge Computing is the New Black
The IT industry has been living a big transformation for quite some time now. Most enterprises are focusing their investments in…
Read MoreTwo Different Approaches to Data Storage Analytics
In one of my latest reports, “Key Criteria for Evaluating Enterprise Block Storage,” I wrote that analytics is one of those…
Read MoreAn Update on Pure Storage From Pure Accelerate
I’m at Pure Accelerate 2019 trying to collect my thoughts and report on what I saw in the last couple of…
Read MoreObject Storage – Time for Differentiation and Diversification
I recently started to work on new research about object storage, and I’ll be writing a report about it soon. As…
Read MoreVMware Entering the IT Infrastructure Composability Game
VMworld 2019 proved to be a very good event. Although new product announcements were limited, the company made a great show…
Read MoreBI Consolidation Roundup
Read Andrew Brust’s Full Report Business Intelligence Market Consolidation – Spring 2019: A Breathtaking Ten Weeks of Change Report Summary: Business…
Read MoreWhy Many Businesses Are Not Ready For AI
Pillars of Readiness By now, the story is well told on how artificial intelligence is changing businesses, all the way down…
Read MoreData Protection and Data Management Vendor Review of Veeam: Customer-Focused, Future Forward, Feet on the Ground
Last week I attended VeeamON 2019, in Miami, and I had the chance to get a better idea about the status…
Read MoreHow Fearless Are You in Your Analytics Journey?
Would you describe yourself as a risk-taker? Fearless? Would you even go so far as jumping out of a plane on…
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