The storage market is changing, and it isn’t changing slowly. While traditional storage vendors still dominate the revenue and units sold market share, IDC concludes that direct sales to hyperscale (cloud scale, rack scale) service providers are dominating sales of storage. Hyperscale is the ability of an architecture to scale appropriately as increased demand is added to the system; hyperscale datacenters are the type run by Facebook, Amazon, and Google. 

After EMC World 2015, I’m languishing in airports today in post-conference burnout - an ideal time to deliver a report on the news, announcements and my prognostications on what this means to our business. The big announcements were delivered in General Sessions on Monday (EMC Information Infrastructure & VCE) and on Tuesday (Federation: VMware & Pivotal). The Federation announcements are more developer and futures oriented, although important strategically, so I’ll pass on that for now.

Does disaster recovery as a service make sense for your organization? It is oftentimes more cost effective and less of a headache than traditional disaster recovery options. As the importance of information infrastructure and applications grows, disaster recovery continues to become more and more critical to a company's success. In this video, I break down the benefits of Disaster Recovery as a Service and discuss how you go about finding a solution that fits your needs. Benefits include:

In this video, I discuss flash storage. Remember, flash storage isn't just an enterprise play. It's important to understand how it can be used and when you should purchase it. Who are the mayor players? What's the difference between all-flash and hybrid or adaptive flash? What about single cell or multi-level cell? What's the pricing like?

Information infrastructure is taking storage, which is a very fundamental part of any data center infrastructure, and putting context around it by adding value on what has been typically seen as a commodity item.

Video with Randy Weis, Practice Manager, Data Center

By Randy Weis, Practice Manager, Virtualization & Data Management

By Randy Weis, Practice Manager, Virtualization & Data Management

By Randy Weis, Practice Manager, Data Management & Virtualization