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Avere invigorates NAS storage

Avere Systems provides NAS optimisation disk arrays and was founded in 2008. The Avere proposition [...]

Dell’s storage services deserve more visibility

Dell's progress in services is praiseworthy. It inherited multiple capabilities and cultures from the various [...]

Centrix Software encourages you to think about the user – not the device

Centrix Software believes that in a typical company the top 10 applications account for 90% [...]

The new generation changes IT, while IT defines their lifestyle

New generations entering the workforce are changing IT priorities in all sorts of areas. For [...]

The Magic of Six Revolutions

Twenty years ago, in 1997, Irving Fang published a book on the history of mass [...]

Logicalis aligns for global growth

Logicalis had a good year, growing by 25% to earn just over $1 billion of [...]

ownCloud adds control and compliance to sync and share

ownCloud’s execs Markus Rex and Matt Richards recognise the importance Dropbox has had in redefining [...]

Syncsort reinvents itself as a Big Data company

Syncsort is not exactly a new IT company, but with a new focus on Big Data [...]

EMC’s federated stance yet to prove long term relevance

Growth in data, its transmission and desire for analytics continue to fuel demand for storage. [...]

Does Microsoft need a virtualisation guru?

Microsoft is the most successful software company of all time, with revenues of $72 billion [...]

Serving aggregators helps Quest Software hone its portfolio

Quest Software supplies software tools for application management, database management, Windows management, virtualization management, and [...]

Acquisitions set pace for VMware’s consulting practice

We initially explored VMware’s consulting and education services as part of our storage hypervisor study. [...]

Minacs tests alliances and blended shoring for growth

Aditya Birla Minacs, more commonly know as Minacs, provides business and technology outsourcing. It is [...]

HDS pursues storage hypervisors on a rich set of features

HDS was one of the first high-end disk array vendors to launch multi-vendor support in [...]

Red Hat adds European partners to its virtualisation ecosystem

Red Hat announced today that it has signed up a number of Premier Business partners [...]

Quintiles bets on its new Digital Patient Unit

As with many industries in today’s uncertain economy, healthcare providers face a multitude of complex [...]

Rimini Street’s success testifies to old gaps in the market

Rimini Street is an independent third-party maintenance and support provider for Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, [...]

ICON takes flexible approach to its technology enablement

Views on the role of IT and its use in clinical research are evolving.  Outsourcing [...]

Chasing down virtualisation bottlenecks

Virtualisation has been with us for a very long time since IBM added it to [...]

DataCore – consistently championing Storage Hypervisors

DataCore is storage software company which has remained steadfastly focused on storage virtualisation since its [...]

Accessibility and intelligence drive refresh at BT

BT is bullish about its Connect portfolio refresh. In addition to speed, availability, scope, security [...]

FalconStor – pursues multi-pronged storage hypervisor approach

FalconStor is a storage software provider specialising in a set of offerings around smarter storage [...]

Aggregators’ experiences create credibility

Early in our research design, we identified aggregators as a significant segment for vendors to [...]

Xsigo – virtualising the server networking layer

Xsigo produces I/O directors and its mission is to upset the enterprise networking market. The [...]

The OVA pushes KVM as the next big virtualisation ecosystem

There is no doubt that VMware and Microsoft have the 2 most important virtualisation environments, [...]

Addressing the eDiscovery market opportunity

eDiscovery refers to any process in which digitised data is sought and secured to use [...]

Tintri – optimising VMware arrays

Tintri was founded in 2008 and produces disk arrays for virtualisation. The company’s VMstore appliance [...]

The role of R&D and acquisition in successful product innovation

Owning patents is important if you get involved in infringement cases, such as those in [...]

NetApp – And the array based storage hypervisor model

The NetApp storage hypervisor model fits into the array segment in our view of how [...]

Nimble Storage – Innovation in storage tiers

Nimble Storage is a new vendor and has a new take on delivering better storage [...]

The essentials of the Storage Hypervisor market

We have launched our storage hypervisor study, and in this document we publish our thoughts [...]

Has standalone maintenance past its sell-by date?

As IT budgets continue to be squeezed, we notice more enterprise customers pushing back on [...]

Comparetheware – IT purchasing comparison-site pioneer

ware is a comparison site, designed as a trusted portal to give UK IT purchasers [...]

Actifio suggests disruption in storage

Actifio is a new vendor proposing that it has the potential to cause disruption to [...]

Storage hypervisor adoption dynamics: we want your views

This week, Rainmaker Files launches a study to explore buyer dynamics. We plan to  interview [...]

Amplidata – Object Storage as Appliances

Amplidata is a private company founded in Belgium in 2008 that since moved its HQ [...]

VCE – Why a Separate Aggregator Company Makes Sense

VCE is a venture a little over 2 years old (originally named Acadia) between EMC, [...]

Why storage hypervising is a go-to-market issue

VMware changed the economics of the x86 server market when it introduced its ESX hypervisor [...]

Avaya’s serious services business

Most customers want the services they purchase have been tailored to their needs. By defining [...]

IBM and VMWare – A Storage Hypervisor Partnership

The partnership between these two suppliers is not widely known, despite IBM being VMWare’s largest [...]

SoftLayer’s next milestone

The opportunity ahead for SoftLayer is to increase the proportion of its business from large [...]

TIBCO has $billion club membership in sight

TIBCO founder and CEO Vivek Ranadivé is betting big on timeliness. It is the premise [...]

Growing support services for open source solutions

Open source solutions have many supporters, among them global powerhouses like Red Hat and IBM. [...]

Joyent makes long term go-to-market bet

Joyent's newly launched academic programme is laudable for its generosity and practical relevance. It is [...]

Campbell Scientific demonstrates resource efficiency through automation

CSI is part of the broader control and sensor systems industries that have slowly become [...]

Virsto – A Software-Only Storage Hypervisor Supplier

Virsto is relevant to our discussion on the development of storage hypervisors and how they can make [...]

On the Appropriation of Data

The appropriation of data is what data architects and IT vendors hope will become easier, [...]

Mobile apps will drive self service

Without ePRO, investigators and their research teams would record outcomes manually, or have to verify [...]

Unisys sustains viable operations support business

We see strong prospects for maintenance and user support providers in the medium term, as [...]

Cloudera – Enterprise Arm of Open source

Cloudera is a vendor of an enterprise distribution of Hadoop. It also provides additional software [...]

Streamlining operations through as-a-service adoption

The bigger issue is how integration is creeping into the operational domain. With static projects, [...]

Caringo – Software Object Storage

A section of the activity comes under the banner of Object Addressed Storage. One vendor [...]

Is your business ready for customers’ converged lifestyles?

KPMG’s findings from its Consumers and Convergence V: The Converged Lifestyle survey looks at consumer [...]

IBM – A Storage Hypervisor Vendor For Large Customers

>IBM is a supplier actively promoting the concept of storage hypervisors. We think it will [...]

Embracing social media for clinical trials

When we looked at technology’s role in patient motivation, we saw three ways in which information [...]

Budding Innovation in Data Intelligence

The market for new vendors operating in the area of storage is budding. [...]

The Search For Storage Hypervisor Rainmakers

The x86 server market has been transformed since VMware’s introduction of its EXS hypervisor. CIOs [...]

Telecity proves aggregators are in demand

TelecityGroup today proclaimed bullish outlook for the rest of its financial year, underscoring the trend [...]

Are your CTOs effective rainmakers?

We reflect on the Big Debate at IPEXPO last week. All three panelists were part [...]

Storage Virtualisation – Market Shares, Trends And Discussion

Welcome to our study chapter from our virtualisation research. This is premium content for clients [...]

Object Matrix – focused on its niche

Object Matrix is a UK based IT company that develops tier-2 data appliances aimed at [...]

IT for a patient centric service model

In our disruptor profile of goBalto, we introduced an alternative approach to effective study start-up. [...]

Druva – De-duped laptop backup

Druva Software is a 4 year old company launched in India to deliver smarter laptop [...]

It’s not the age, it’s the mileage

There is much work ahead as vendors grapple with the challenge of keeping current customers [...]

It’s not the age, it’s the mileage

Enterprises across the size and vertical segment spectrum are struggling to balance the need for [...]

Centrix Software gains funding for US go-to-market push

Centrix software is a UK-based software company focusing on workplace discovery and helping companies prepare [...]

goBalto proves aggregators come in all sizes

goBalto serves the clinical trials community with its platform that helps evaluate and manage potential [...]

Disruption profile: goBalto

In the course of our research, we come across many case studies, supplier announcements and [...]

Technology’s role in patient motivation

One of the more significant findings from our “Mind the Gap” study is that trials [...]

How do we evaluate virtualisation rainmakers?

A vendor’s approach to virtualisation makes a big difference to its chances of success in [...]

How we evaluate resource efficiency rainmakers

Efficiency is a goal which IT people continuosly pursue. We see effiency spanning into many [...]

Dell Addresses Data Centre Resource Efficiency With Hotter Servers

Dell suggests improving resource efficiency by increasing operational temperatures and saving on expensive chillers. [...]

HP bids for Autonomy

HP announced its bid for Autonomy on August 18, 2011 at a whapping 78% premium [...]

Datastores – the future of intelligent data

The term datastores is emerging in public debate. It has a number of meanings, so [...]

Asigra integrates backup in the cloud

Asigra develops and provides backup and recovery solutions for service providers to deploy and sell. Asigra [...]

Redstor Profile

  Redstor is a UK IT services vendor specialising in data protection. Redstor delivers its [...]

IBM positioning for new generation IT buyers

We advise IBM and other suppliers to form specific strategies to become relevant to new [...]

VISION Cloud Aims to Sort Out Storage

  Customer scepticism is often proportional to the amount of hyperbole created in the IT [...]

Demand Side Confidence of IT-Cloud

The IT industry is brimming with confidence in its ability to provide solutions residing in [...]

The Desirability of Enterprise Vendor Status

Visiting two conferences in the US brought home the desirability of enterprise status. Or should [...]

Re-scaling the maintenance footprint

Vendors are obliged by law to provide warranty on the products they sell. IT vendors [...]

Big Data – Poor Label

The IT industry sometimes chooses to name concepts and trends badly. 'Cloud' is not exactly [...]

Nexenta – Opening Up Arrays

The Nexenta product proposition is simple: buy your disk arrays as software loaded onto commodity [...]

Autonomy Buys Iron Mountain Digital

Today Autonomy announced that it is acquiring Iron Mountain Digital’ assets. This means a couple [...]

Backup or DR?

This blog post applies to situations where DR does not involve instant fail-over. Having been [...]

Business Continuity

Mostly I am happy for people to use the Business Continuity (BC) definition loosely, because [...]

Self-service re-defines the services landscape

Since the late 1980s, technology vendors have looked to services as logical adjacent business lines [...]

When AWS went down

Many businesses have woken up today to the reality that cloud providers too can fail. [...]

Aggregators in your customer base

Segmenting the target market remains an inexact art form. Technology as an industry has increasingly [...]

The line-of-sight journey

Translating firm goals into tangible results requires that employees not only comprehend the organization’s strategy, [...]

The importance of tribes

We all form tribes. It’s a natural human condition, and it’s been going on for [...]

How Zuora is enabling a new world of subscription consumption

The way that we consume is changing. We are moving from a world of buying [...]

The art of asking the right questions

In Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, researchers discovered that the answer to [...]

Checklist: Mitigating the 360 degree feedback risk

“the difference between knowing someone and knowing of someone” It’s that time again, the annual [...]

Book review: The Naked Corporation

As an analyst interpreting trends in the IT industry, corporate opacity was a common challenge [...]

Age of Unreason

Change is not what it used to be. One of the more enduring management books [...]

Defining the Governance Agenda

Good governance creates a strong organisation by continuously steering it towards a vision and ensuring [...]

Can business and social responsibility co-exist?

“Corporate Social Responsibility” is a dynamic term steadily evolving thus escaping standard definition. Applied CSR [...]

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