Because nothing is certain 
Jan. 27 Update – My colleague Jason Buffington, also took a look at the AWS announcement in his Technical Optimist blog – worth a read for a view on the impact this announcement will have on the data protection front and how it could positively impact Amazon’s ability to meet user’s needs in the future! The big [...]
Sometimes in this business it is hard to separate the real stuff from the marketing fluff. One of the big questions I’ve been asked in 2011 is whether or not there is any momentum behind cloud storage. That is a tough question to answer – the biggest players, Amazon and Microsoft, are mammoths that don’t break out [...]
Yesterday I blogged about why I am so excited to be tackling the online file storage and collaboration market and the impact of consumerization and mobility on unstructured data storage strategies. Today I am please to share that I will be speaking on the topic at the CITE (Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise) Conference [...]
These past few months I’ve been working diligently with ace ESG research analyst Kristine Kao to examine how workforce mobility and consumerization are driving the online file storage and collaboration market. Today I am happy to announce that we’ve published a comprehensive report on this space that examines the market drivers, inhibitors, and top vendors [...]
Since it is December I figured it’s a good time to start reflecting back on 2011 and forward to 2012, so that’s what I’ll be doing in my blogs this month, starting with this one – a confession of sorts. At the Dell Storage Conference this past June, I came to a startling realization. I [...]
The three of you who read this regularly (mom, dad, and my sister) already know that we have been discussing scale-out storage for a long time and that ESG forecasts that by 2015, 80% of all external networked storage shipment revenue will be from scale-out systems. It just makes sense in today’s world: data growth [...]
I was lucky enough to attend the inaugural Box end-user conference this week, BoxWorks. For those of you who don’t know Box, it provides online file storage and collaboration software. They call it cloud content management. It lets users access and share content from anywhere and any device. There are a number of use cases [...]
I get this question a lot–how do I segment the NAS market and evaluate vendors? After all, there are so many use cases with different price/performance/protection characteristics that you can’t just set out a level playing field and evaluate systems on a 1 for 1 basis. While one vendor may offer a system that is [...]
The first step is admitting you have a problem–so here I am, admitting that I am a cheapskate. I skimped and saved and now I have hurt myself and my family with my cheapskate ways.  During the lightning storms last month, we had a power surge. Yup, fried the hard drive on my home PC. And [...]
I was revisiting the scale-out storage report we published in December and this chart caught my eye. One in four new storage system purchases are triggered because users have maxed out their system and it doesn’t scale. One in 4. One in 5 is for a technology refresh. When we built the scale-out market forecast and [...]
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