Software Defined Storage: The Vendor Landscape – Part 2 of 2

By Torsten Volk on Feb 17, 2014 9:42:23 AM

As promised in my previous post on “Software Defined Storage – Why Customers Should Care”, I want to follow-up with a brief overview of the competitive landscape.

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Software Defined Storage: The Vendor Landscape – Part 2 of 2

By Torsten Volk on Feb 13, 2014 10:23:44 AM

As promised in my previous post on "Software Defined Storage - Why Customers Should Care", I want to follow-up with a brief overview of the competitive landscape.

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VMworld 2013 Digest – 8 Companies You Should Take a Closer Look At

By Torsten Volk on Sep 3, 2013 12:02:14 PM

Every year after VMworld EMA receives countless inquiries regarding the most notable vendors on the show floor. This time around, we have compiled a list consisting of startups taking a new look at traditional IT challenges, as well as larger and more mature companies that have launched industry transforming initiatives. Ultimately, this list of eight extraordinary vendors is focused on one central concept: customer value.

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VMworld 2013 Digest – 8 Companies You Should Take a Closer Look At

By Torsten Volk on Aug 30, 2013 9:28:28 AM

Every year after VMworld EMA receives countless inquiries regarding the most notable vendors on the show floor. This time around, we have compiled a list consisting of startups taking a new look at traditional IT challenges, as well as larger and more mature companies that have launched industry transforming initiatives. Ultimately, this list of eight extraordinary vendors is focused on one central concept: customer value.

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The Impact of Cloud on Data Protection: Ripple or Sharknado™

By Torsten Volk on Aug 14, 2013 12:35:47 PM

It’s always like that in enterprise IT. There’s this incredible new technology that lets you do things you could never even fathom possible. But then, once the honeymoon is over, the old problems come back to bite you with a vengeance.

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The Software Defined Datacenter: Part 4 of 4 – Where We Are Today

By Torsten Volk on Mar 26, 2013 3:58:50 PM

Almost one year into the discussion about the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), it is time to take inventory of the state of the discipline. As a reminder, the ultimate goal of the SDDC is to abstract and centralize the
management of compute, network, storage, operating systems, middleware and applications in order to dynamically place workloads where they can run in the most cost efficient, secure and compliant manner.

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The Software Defined Datacenter: Part 4 of 4 – Where We Are Today

By Torsten Volk on Mar 25, 2013 9:34:24 AM

Almost one year into the discussion about the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), it is time to take inventory of the state of the discipline. As a reminder, the ultimate goal of the SDDC is to abstract and centralize the
management of compute, network, storage, operating systems, middleware and applications in order to dynamically place workloads where they can run in the most cost efficient, secure and compliant manner.

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The Software-Defined Datacenter: Part 2 of 4 – Core Components

By Torsten Volk on Aug 23, 2012 10:42:54 AM

In part 1 of this series of four posts, we examined the grand vision of the software-defined datacenter (SDD). In this second post of the series, we will take a look at the core components of the SDD (see Figure 1) and provide a brief evaluation of how mature these components currently are.

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