Mark Peters

• briefs
  May 17, 2012

  Challenges and Opportunities for the Storage Industry

  In politics, one often hears: “Something must be done.” Invariably, the “something” refers to a significant, known set of problems and a paucity of answers, and it is simply apparent that things cannot go on as they are. In the world of SMBs and enterprise storage, the first part of the statement holds true. There are indeed abundant known challenges—data growth, consumerization, clouds, big data, and so on. And often, they come with even bigger expectations. The silver lining to the dark clouds threatening the storage ecosystem is that plenty of tools and methods either exist or are well understood and can control or remove much of the problem … if both vendors and users are willing to admit the issues and embrace change before it is too late.

• briefs
  May 16, 2012

  Pure Storage Declares General Availability

  Pure Storage has made its Purity OS-based “Cost Optimized All Flash Array” generally available. In the dynamic all-flash storage market, Pure Storage is focused on delivering a strong suite of general storage functions at an attractive price. And it is emphasizing, even ahead of the system’s impressive raw performance, the consistent performance that its system delivers. With considerable marketplace validation under the product’s belt, this looks to be a credible GA, not just marketing semantics—a position supported by two end-users whom ESG interviewed for this brief.

• blogs
  May 15, 2012

  Solid-state Storage Speeds Savings and Profits?

  Solid-state Storage is all the rage right now....while its potential for high performance is well understood (at least at a high level), the fact that it can usually deliver economic value is only beginning to be appreciated.

• News
  May 15, 2012

  EMC introduces VMAX Service Provider Platform for service providers --Computer Technology Review
• News
  May 15, 2012

  EMC Chases Cloud Services Providers with VMAX SP -- InfoStor
• News
  May 14, 2012

  Oracle Embraces Cloud Computing, the New Consumption Model--Network Computing
• News
  May 11, 2012

  Panzura Cloud Storage Gateway Refresh Delivers More Control--Network Computing
• blogs
  May 10, 2012

  EMC Confirms Purchase of XtremIO

  My quick take…

  Allowing just long enough for the rumor mill to quiet down a bit after the first suggestions that EMC would buy the Israeli flash array company, XtremIO – and hence at least guaranteeing a second round of publicity! - EMC confirmed this morning that it is indeed breaking into its piggy-bank to buy the start-up.

• News
  May 10, 2012

  Whiptail Reinvents Performance Flash -- Network Computing
• blogs
  May 9, 2012

  NetApp’s Purchase of Engenio – First Anniversary

  Last month, I had the chance to speak with Joel Reich who heads NetApp’s Array Products Group (APG). The conversation was to formally mark the completion of one full year since NetApp acquired the Engenio business from LSI. The first extract from our conversation was posted on 4/24 and today – exactly a year from the deal closing – I am delivering the concluding comments.

• blogs
  May 9, 2012

  Solid-state on Steroids?

  I’m a big believer in mankind’s ability to invent its way out of problems and/or discover opportunities. And so the [somewhat edited, with bold highlights added by me too] press release below caught my eye. There’s a lot of chatter about what comes next after NAND flash; phase-change memory is one of the more promising avenues but it has some challenges. Maybe the news out of Johns Hopkins University (JHU) is making it look a whole lot more interesting.

• blogs
  May 7, 2012

  New: Solid-state Storage Market Landscape Report
• News
  May 1, 2012

  DataCore Software 2012 Private Cloud and Storage Virtualization Survey: Performance Bottlenecks and Downtime Top Storage-Related User Concerns | Virtual-Strategy Magazine
• research briefs
  Apr 30, 2012

  Research Brief: Solid-state Storage Usage at Financial Services Organizations

  Data storage technology is widely considered to be a strategic asset within the financial services sector, so it makes sense that these organizations have been at the forefront of solid-state storage technology adoption. ESG research finds a number of significant differences in the solid-state usage profile of financial services organizations compared with their counterparts in other industry verticals including penetration of solid-state storage across the industry, initial deployment drivers, and current implementation/form factor choices.

• blogs
  Apr 30, 2012

  Unifying My Thoughts on Hitachi's HUS Announcement

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