The world is increasingly moving to real-time business operations, largely driven by the need to align and adapt quickly to changes as well as to improve customer experience -- the life-blood of business success. These goals of enabling real-time business response and creating a better customer expe... Read More...

I had expected a lot of buzz at VMworld 2012 and afterwards around “Software-defined Data Centers” and it makes me chuckle to think of all the different ways we have found to state the obvious – “Software is what matters.”’ The software model and business applications have redefined the foundation o... Read More...

The financial industry is a bellwether for business computing in general. IT is so central to their business model that they’re among the first to grasp at disruptive technologies. That’s what makes Rubin’s Law so important.... Read More...

I’m sure you have seen the wider use of the term BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) in our industry and while I know it mainly refers to mobile devices, it got me thinking about why this is an inevitable trend – fueled by customers wanting greater buying power and flexibility. Therefore why shouldn’t this... Read More...

We at DataCore think the "all or nothing" proposition offered by vendors that can't address both the virtual and physical world is a mistake, and an expensive one at that. Virtualization and Cloud Computing comes with an assumption that it is better to replace your existing investments in servers an... Read More...

You would be hard-pressed to find anyone that does not agree that the rate at which enterprise workloads are becoming virtualized is increasing exponentially. In fact, most industry experts agree that over 80% of server workloads will be virtualized by 2018. In response, 2012 will mark a year in w... Read More...

At the end of June, Antony Adshead at SearchStorage UK asked a good question: Why is the data storage industry locked in by hardware? After all, as he notes, a SAN or an array-based storage system, is simply a combination of hardware and software. How is it then that the “hugely wealthy empires” bas... Read More...

Almost thirty years ago novelist and screenwriter Rita Mae Brown defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.” I’m quite certain she didn’t have storage hardware purchasing in mind when she wrote that, but it’s a perfect description of the usual IT s... Read More...