Major public cloud providers, notably Amazon, have led a transformation in information technology architectures in recent years. That transformation can be called many things, including hyperscale computing, a scale-out distributed computing model for clouds where the orchestration, operation, and economics of the resulting infrastructure is fundamentally different (and generally considered to be substantially improved) from […]
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RPost: Taking Email to a Higher Level
Have you ever worried that a critical e-mail was not delivered? Are you afraid to send certain e-mails because you cannot afford to have non-authorized eyes violate their confidentiality? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could send and receive legally certifiable documents (and signed too!) without having to use physical mail or FAX? Certifying delivery, […]
IBM FlashSystem’s Big Step Forward with Flash Storage for the Hybrid Cloud
Eddie Cantor once said, “It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.” That is certainly the case with flash storage which has been around for many years, but high cost limited its acceptability to a limited number of high-performance/high-value-added applications. Declining prices have led to broader acceptance of flash storage for a broader base […]
The Three Transformations of IT
Every once in a while, it is a good idea to take a high level overview of where information technology (IT) has come from and where IT is going. That helps us put our efforts into context and lets us know where we should be devoting our efforts. Information technology is now in its third […]
What to Think About First on Data Protection and the Cloud
What is data protection in the cloud? That is not an easy question to answer since it comes in various forms, and the tools and technologies to provide data protection are extremely numerous and can be used in different combinations. From IT’s perspective, large number of choices can make cloud more difficult than traditional schemas. […]
The Rise of Data-Driven Intelligence
The ocean of data keeps rising and concepts such as big data are spawned in that ocean. That leads to statements that have been made to the effect that data is the new center of gravity of IT. Is technology really enabling an information-centric world, and if so, how does it tie to the more […]
Spectra Logic’s ArcticBlue Stores PBs on Disk Cost Efficiently
Many organizations — like those in media and entertainment and in high performance computing (HPC) — find themselves challenged with maintaining multiple petabytes (PBs) of fixed content unstructured data, such as digital audio and video files, for long periods of time. Collectively, this data has ongoing value, such as for retrieving selected videos for revenue […]
Observable Networks: How Packet Metadata Reveals Suspicious Behavior
Modern enterprise networks often employ best practices for monitoring and intrusion detection to provide enhanced network security, but this may not be enough to deal with the continually evolving threat landscape. Startup Observable Networks offers an approach that it calls Dynamic Endpoint Modeling to tackle advanced security threats. In my view, this adds an important […]
Scality: Using Software-Defined Storage to Manage Petabyte-Scale Data
Scality develops software that enables enterprises to manage storage more efficiently and effectively at large scale (i.e., petabytes) than traditional storage solutions typically achieve. This high storage volume portion of the enterprise storage market is called the capacity-driven segment and reflects a major rethinking of the enterprise storage market. In the past, a traditional (controller-based) […]
IBM’s Spectrum Storage: Now a Suite, Not Just a Family
IBM has announced the IBM Spectrum Storage Suite, which is a way to offer a single software license that covers all six IBM Spectrum Storage family products. The licensing model for the suite is based on the volume (in TBs) of data managed. IBM’s goal is to encourage the use and adoption of its software […]