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  • The Most Interesting Thing in IBM’s Big Storage Announcement
        11/02/2018   News U can Use

    This week IBM made a massive storage announcement covering a variety of impressive offerings. This announcement included huge upgrades to its flash solution (including a noteworthy entry-level offering), Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) updates, a very interesting storage gridlock tool, a bunch of tape updates and a series of new and updated SAP HANA solutions. But the most interesting to me was IBM Spectrum Discover. It is the first use of AI at scale that I’ve seen (I don’t…

  • Total Compensation of WD’s Executive Officers – Part One – StorageNewsletter
        10/03/2018   News U can Use

    This is the first on a three parts analysis of the salaries and compensations of the executives of the top 3 storage companies in the world: Micron, WD and Seagate. Next part will be published tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Most paid executives in the WW storage industry Ranking Company Name and position FY Salary Total compensation 1 WD Steve Milligan, CEO 2018 $1,250,000 $19,738,381 2 Micron D. Mark Durcan, former CEO 2017 $912,692 $15,701,652 3 Micron Sanjay Mehrotra,…

  • SNIA SDC Dishes Up Storage Innovations
        10/02/2018   News U can Use

    The 2018 SNIA Storage Developers Conference is a great event to find out the latest developments in digital storage technology and storage management software. There were announcements and presentations, demonstrations and lots of networking covering topics as diverse as cloud storage, containers, NVMe (which is now moving to TCP as well as fibre channel and Infiniband support), NVMe-oF, new storage architectures and long-term (cold storage) data retention. The Cloud Data Management Interface is an open international ISO standard, ISO/IEC 17826:2016,…

  • Cloud storage: Minimizing repair costs
        10/01/2018   News U can Use

    As the Big Data revolution continues its exponential growth, the problems of processing and protecting that also grow. Advanced ECCs – along with hardware and geographic redundancy – can ensure that data loss becomes less likely than an asteroid strike, at only a 40 percent overhead, much lower than the triple redundancy used in some cloud storage. But when the data redundancy is compromised by a hardware failure – disk, server, or data center – redundancy must be restored. As…

  • StorageNewsletterSurvey Spotlights Top 5 Storage Pain Points
        09/21/2018   News U can Use

    This article was posted on August 22, 2018, and was written by Mike Matchett. Survey Spotlights Top 5 storage Pain Points The Enterprise Storage Forum survey uncovered the biggest challenges storage professionals have with their existing storage infrastructure: aging gear, lack of capacity, high operations cost, security, maintenance burden. We’ll discuss which storage technologies available or coming soon might serve to ease those pain points. Storage has been around as long as computing, but based on this survey, we have…

  • Unleashing Storage in the Modern Enterprise
        09/18/2018   News U can Use

    Irshad Raihan is Senior Manager of Product Marketing at Red Hat. Have you heard of the term “versatilist”? Chances are you know one, or perhaps you’re even one yourself. Coined by Gartner, the term “versatilist” refers to a person who is “able to apply a depth of skill to a progressively widening scope of situations and experiences, equally at ease with technical issues as with business strategy.” Think of an individual who works in a DevOps environment, straddling the worlds…

  • 5 ways to tune up your big data storage strategy
        09/17/2018   News U can Use

    Few areas in IT get less attention than storage. In the past, if you needed more storage, you simply ordered it. After all, storage was cheap. Now in the days of cloud computing, you simply provision for more. However, taking a commodity approach to storage doesn’t address the key storage issues that come with big data. With unstructured big data now comprising 80% of corporate data, and with data overall continuing to double worldwide every two years, how do you…

  • Commvault pick up Cisco, HP vet to lead WW channel
        09/06/2018   News U can Use

      Commvault has announced the appointment of former Cisco and HPE executive Wenceslao Lada as VP of worldwide alliances. Lada, who spent 20 years at HPE in both Europe and the U.S. and a further seven years at Cisco, will join a team at Commvault charged with building the vendor’s current alliances, while working on new partnerships with cloud providers and other tech leaders, Commvault said. Related articles   In today’s announcement, Lada noted that Commvault partners had indicated improvements…

  • Digital Storage For Media And Entertainment
        06/07/2018   News U can Use

    For 9 years, Coughlin Associates has been running a survey of media and entertainment professionals on their uses of digital storage for content creation and capture, post production, content distribution as well as archiving and preservation. This has provided insights on developments in digital storage for rich media applications. This article and a talk that Tom Coughlin will give at the 2018 Creative Storage Conference on June 7, 2018 in Culver City, CA (www.creativestorage.org) explore some of the results from…

  • Mike Dodson Named Interim CEO, Quantum
        06/04/2018   News U can Use

    Effective May31, 2018, Quantum Corporation appointed J. Michael Dodson as interim CEO, replacing Patrick Dennis, who resigned from the company as CEO and as a director effective May 25, 2018. Dodson was also appointed SVP, CFO, replacing Fuad Ahmad, who departed the company effective May 30, 2018. From August 2017 to May 2018, Mike Dodson, 57, served as the CFO of Greenwave Systems. Prior to that, he served as the COO and CFO at Mattson Technology, Inc. from 2012 to…

  • Block, file and object storage interfaces enable integration
        05/28/2018   News U can Use

    ContentItemController, generated at 17:43:44 Fri May 25, 2018, by pv-ecmappma4.techtarget.com Evaluate Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering. Block, file and object storage interfaces enable integration Explore the capabilities, as well as the strengths and weaknesses, of some storage vendors’ products that support and integrate block, file and object interfaces. SocialMediaShareBarController, generated at 17:12:07 Fri May 25, 2018, by pv-ecmappma4.techtarget.com   Block storage is the oldest type of storage. It was originally used to…

  • IBM offers ‘stackable’ storage incentives for partners
        05/04/2018   News U can Use

    IBM has announced new storage incentives for partners, designed to increase channel momentum in the competitive storage marketplace. The incentives are available for IBM business partners who sell IBM’s storage systems and storage software services, stacking them up so that each eligible partner and systems engineer can potentially earn up to $100,000 in storage incentives annually. John Teltsch, general manager of IBM’s global business partners, laid out the company’s plan to be the biggest player in the storage market. “We want…

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