Within the cloudy skies of the Hybrid world, a key enabler to delivering more business value is better automation, tighter integration, and simple abstraction of the individual technology components. It’s a big topic of interest to users we talk to everyday, and here are some examples of what to expect more of in 2016. Prediction … Continue reading Top Predictions for 2016: Cloudy Skies with Clearing Complexity

Today’s technology forecast includes an accelerated shift to the hybrid cloud. With over 75% of enterprise ITorganizations deploying hybrid cloud already, adoption is predicted to continue to grow. In only the last few years, hybrid cloud has become the preferred way to deliver IT services and drive business transformation. This climate change enables IT to better … Continue reading Make It Rain with Your EMC Hybrid Cloud

As everyone who works in IT knows, we are living in arguably one of the most fascinating and exciting times since the industry was created many decades ago.  The tectonic shifts in technologies, markets, and consumption models are radically reshaping the IT landscape. It’s providing folks in IT with new challenges to adapt and evolve, … Continue reading Technologies Disrupt, Consumption Models Transform

Yup, this is another blog about Social Media and Information Technology. But it is not for the marketing folks. This one is for the IT pros who manage the infrastructure to keep the apps online, the packets moving over the network, and the information safe and secure. What if you could use Social Media as a … Continue reading I Friended My Storage, And I Liked It

Before you get too excited, this is not some tawdry summer romance saga of data center passion and desire.  There’s no need to alert the folks in HR.  But now that I have your attention, what could the Summer of Love of 1967 and today’s shift to Converged Infrastructure possibly have in common? One commonality … Continue reading The Summer of Love and the Urge to Converge

Now before you send flowers and a note of condolence to your IT department, please be assured this is not a literal declaration. The above snowclone is based on a traditional proclamation made following the accession of a new monarch immediately after the passing of the old. It’s a fitting proclamation, since many of the … Continue reading The Storage Admin is dead, long live The Storage Admin!

Hypothetical qquestion; if you’re storage array is 50% allocated, is if half empty or half full?  The Pessimist would say it’s half empty.  The Optimist would say it’s half full.  But most of the storage folks I talk to would say, “who cares?” In their minds the key challenge is not usually running out of storage … Continue reading Is Your Storage Half Empty? Or Half Full?