Contributed Editorial
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Guest Column: DCIG 2011 Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer's Guide Now Available
2/2/2011
Today DCIG and SMB Research are pleased to jointly announce the availability of a new, comprehensive 2011 Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer's Guide that weights, scores and ranks over 20 virtual server backup software products. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.
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Guest Column: How SSDs Can Be Leveraged To Deliver Inline Deduplication For Primary Storage
2/2/2011
In late January 2010 someone posted a comment in response to a blog that I wrote in the October 2009 time frame. This individual was questioning the value that an inline deduplication solution like the Exar Hifn BitWackr DR1605 provides since most of the performance bottleneck associated with deduplication is primarily in the disk I/O. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.
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Guest Column: Staying Afloat In The Sea Of Data: Managing Your Information Risk
1/24/2011
Corporations are drowning in data. Twenty-five years ago, individual computer storage was measured in thousands of bytes; 15 years ago, in millions; 5 years ago, in billions; today, in trillions. By Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind
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Guest Column: RAID Is Certainly Not Dead But Its Future Looks Small
12/17/2010
The month of October saw a sizeable uptick in the readership of a blog entry that appeared nearly two years ago on DCIG's website on the topic of data loss on SATA storage systems. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.
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Guest Column: The Real End Game Of Virtualization Is Automated IT Operations
11/30/2010
In conversations that I have with other analysts, end users and vendors, it seems to me that many are either missing the point or failing to grasp what the end game of virtualization is. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.
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Guest Column: As 2011 Nears A Transformation In Backup Awaits
11/30/2010
The combination of cloud computing, cloud storage, inexpensive hardware, virtualization and heightened user demands for near real time backup and recovery are creating a crisis in traditional backup methodologies. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.
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Guest Column: How Deduplication Helps Reduce The Cost Of Backup And Disaster Recovery
10/21/2010
Today’s explosive data growth is prompting many organizations to look for ways to increase the efficiency of their storage, backup, and disaster recovery processes. The growth of data is straining capacity, but at the same time, cost and complexity frustrate many IT managers seeking to make improvements. By Kay Benaroch and Shane Jackson
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Guest Column: The Dominoes Are Being Set Up To Fall In Favor Of One Enterprise Storage Cloud Provider
9/17/2010
There is a growing body of evidence that indicates it is no longer a question of "If" enterprises will adopt cloud storage infrastructure but a matter of "When". However pinpointing exactly when enterprise organizations will begin their broad adoption of public storage clouds is still difficult to ascertain. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.
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Guest Column: EMC Is Looking Up And Finding Itself In The Shadow Of NetApp's Cloud
9/17/2010
It has been rumored that EMC's CEO Joe Tucci has said that EMC's biggest threat comes not from Dell, HDS, HP or IBM but NetApp. It is for that reason that EMC has been looking over its shoulder for some time to see what NetApp is up to in an attempt to stay one step ahead of it from a technology perspective. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.
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Guest Column: Non-Disruptive Qualification Of Production Software Fixes, Patches And Upgrades Now A Possibility
9/16/2010
Software fixes, patches and upgrades on production systems are a persistent, nagging challenge in today's production environments. Vendors frequently promise that by simply installing the latest revision of their code, many current issues that an application is experiencing will be resolved. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.
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