Hewlett-Packard Gets Its Act Together
March 18, 2013HP’s recent Industry Analyst Summit in Boston was a success if its goal was to demonstrate that top management had their act together after months of turmoil and controversy. The 250 invited analysts saw plenty of unity of vision, a … Continue reading
Posted in News & Analysis | Tagged analyst summit, Apotheker, Hewlett-Packard, hp, HP execs, industry analyst, innovation, Mark Hurd, Meg Whitman, Project Moonshot | 1 Comment
Splitting Heirs to Mid-range Backup Leadership
March 13, 2013A difficulty in analyzing the mid-market or the mid-range in any area of information technology is that the mid-range often doesn’t work as one uniform category. This year, for example, we decided to subdivide the mid-range storage landscape into two. … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, Research, What's New in Research | Tagged Acronis, ARCServe, Avamar, Backup and Recovery, CA Technologies, Cloud Backup, CommVault, Continuous Data Protection, Data Protector, Data Recovery, Data Reduction, Deduplication, disaster-recovery, emc, falconstor, hp, ibm, Integrated Backup, Netapp, NetBackup, NetWorker, NSB, rpo, rto, Simpana, Symantec, Syncsort, Tivoli Storage Manager, TSM | 1 Comment
Thin vs. Fat: The debate rages on…
February 11, 2013When faced with the task of building a “system,” the only way to go is to build the most appropriate solution for the situation. In some cases, that may be a fat architecture; in some cases, it may be a … Continue reading
Posted in Applications, News & Analysis, What's New in Research | Tagged 10Zig, Chip PC, desktop, desktop hardware, energy, fat, Fat client, green, hp, IGEL, Microsoft Terminal Services, Oracle, pano logic, Samsung, streaming, Sun Ray, thin, thin-client, vdi, virtualization, VMWare, Wyse, zero client | Comments Off
What is SDN? I hear so much about it!
December 10, 2012There has been a lot of buzz of a new concept emerging in the network community– software defined networking (SDN). SDN is glamorized as the network’s latest push towards a more streamlined and cost-efficient solution compared to the physical infrastructure … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, What's New in Research | Tagged abstraction, API, Application, architecture, Brocade, Cariden, cisco, commoditization, control plane, controller, data plane, DDoS, decouple, hp, ibm, Infrastructure, interoperability, Juniper, layer 2, layer 3, microsoft, network, network architect, Open Networking Foundation, OpenFlow, OSI, physical, router, SDN, software defined networking, stack, standards, switch, traffic flow, utilization, virtual, virtualization, VMWare | Comments Off
IaaS Vendor Landscape is Flush with Different Players
July 19, 2012The vendor market for Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is getting crowded as service providers large and small get into the cloud game. Of the fifteen vendors evaluated in Info-Tech Research Group’s Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Vendor Landscape, a whopping seven … Continue reading
Posted in Advisory, Infrastructure, News & Analysis, What's New in Research | Tagged Amazon, at&t, Bluelock, cloud trend, cloud-computing, CloudSigma, CSC, datacenter, Dimension Data, external-cloud, global datacenters, gogrid, hosting service, Hosting.com, hp, hybrid cloud, IaaS, IaaS vendor, ibm, iLand, Infrastructure, Infrastructure as a Service, Joyent, OpSource, public cloud, Rackspace, savvis, Terremark, verizon, VMWare, web hosting | Comments Off
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