Events and Trends Driving Hybrid Data Center Adoption

March 31, 2022

In order for organizations to get the benefits of both cloud and on-premises data centers, more implement a hybrid data center. Running their workloads in one or the other or both gives them the choice they seek. In addition to these practical reasons, recent events and trends have reinforced the move to a hybrid data center. However, when adopting a hybrid data center, organizations must examine how well operations such as backup work in it.

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DCIG is Researching Storage as a Service (STaaS) Solutions

February 9, 2022

DCIG is currently researching enterprise storage as a service, and intends to publish one or more DCIG TOP 5 reports based on this STaaS research.

Four Paths on the Journey to Automated Enterprise Infrastructure

May 28, 2020

Every enterprise storage briefing now includes a discussion of infrastructure analytics. For some vendors, this is a relatively new endeavor. Other vendors have woven analytics into the design of their company and products from day one. As companies evaluate enterprise storage offerings, they should pay careful attention to these infrastructure analytics and how they fit with their own needs, abilities, and culture.

Four Integration Advances That Are Eliminating Enterprise Storage Management Silos

December 5, 2019

Enterprises embracing digital transformation require much more flexible and responsive data center infrastructures. Happily, advances in integrating storage management into the broader data center ecosystem are taking hold. As a result, enterprise storage management is becoming much more integrated into the overall data center management environment.

Nanoseconds, Stubborn SAS, and Other Takeaways from the Flash Memory Summit 2019

August 8, 2019

Every year at the Flash Memory Summit held in Santa Clara, CA, attendees get a firsthand look at the technologies that will impact the next generation of storage. This year many of the innovations centered on forthcoming interconnects that will better deliver on the performance that flash offers today. Here are DCIG’s main takeaways from this year’s event.

Lenovo TruScale and Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Accelerate Enterprise Transformation

May 23, 2019

Digital transformation is an enterprise imperative. Enabling that transformation is the focus of Lenovo’s TruScale data center infrastructure services. The combination of TruScale infrastructure services and Nutanix application services creates a powerful accelerant for enterprise transformation.

Best Practices for Getting Ready to Go “All-in” on the Cloud

December 13, 2018

To ensure an application migration to the cloud goes well or that a company should even migrate a specific application to the cloud requires a thorough understanding of each application. This understanding should encompass what resources the application currently uses as well as how it behaves over time. To gather the information it needs about each application, here is a list of best practices that a company can put in place for its on-premises applications before it moves any of them to the cloud.

DCIG’s VMworld 2018 Best of Show

August 30, 2018

VMworld provides insight into some of the biggest tech trends occurring in the enterprise data center space and, once again, this year did not disappoint. But amid the literally dozens of vendors showing off their wares on the show floor, here are the four stories or products that caught my attention and earned my “VMworld 2018 Best of Show” recognition at this year’s event.

Predictive Analytics in Enterprise Storage: More Than Just Highfalutin Mumbo Jumbo

March 22, 2018

Enterprise storage startups are pushing the storage industry forward faster and in directions it may never have gone without them. It is because of these startups that flash memory is now the preferred place to store critical enterprise data. Startups also advanced the customer-friendly all-inclusive approach to software licensing, evergreen hardware refreshes, and pay-as-you-grow utility pricing. These startup-inspired changes delight customers, who are rewarding these startups with large follow-on purchases and Net Promoter Scores (NPS) previously unseen in this industry. Yet the greatest contribution startups may make to the enterprise storage industry is applying predictive analytics to storage.

Product Bells and Whistles do not a Tier One Storage Provider Make; Defining a Tier One Storage Provider, Part I

November 4, 2016

In almost every industry there is a tendency to use phrases such as Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 to describe providers, the products in a specific market, the quality of service provided, or some combination thereof. It is one applies these three terms to the storage industry and how to properly classify storage providers into one of these various tiers that the conversation becomes intriguing. After all, how does one define what constitutes and separates a Tier 1 storage provider from other providers in the market?

Category: Data Center Management

Events and Trends Driving Hybrid Data Center Adoption

DCIG is Researching Storage as a Service (STaaS) Solutions

Four Paths on the Journey to Automated Enterprise Infrastructure

Four Integration Advances That Are Eliminating Enterprise Storage Management Silos

Nanoseconds, Stubborn SAS, and Other Takeaways from the Flash Memory Summit 2019

Lenovo TruScale and Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Accelerate Enterprise Transformation

Best Practices for Getting Ready to Go “All-in” on the Cloud

DCIG’s VMworld 2018 Best of Show

Predictive Analytics in Enterprise Storage: More Than Just Highfalutin Mumbo Jumbo

Product Bells and Whistles do not a Tier One Storage Provider Make; Defining a Tier One Storage Provider, Part I

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