The Gartner Cool Vendor Report in Storage Technologies: Vanity or Value
We all like lists that rank who is cool, best in class or top score in a buyer’s guide. Every year, Gartner releases their prized "Cool Vendor" selection. But is it just vanity for the vendor selected or is there actual, tangible value to the prospective customer that makes you [...]
When Dave Cappuccio of Gartner Speaks, People Listen
As others entered the stage, there was perfunctory applause. However, when Dave entered a roar of applause erupted, and the event ground to a halt for several minutes. Sitting in the audience at Gartner Symposium 2013 over the next several days I saw this reaction several times. When Dave Cappuccio, [...]
The Real Meaning of Disruption
Disruption is a popular word these days. Is it the replacement for innovation, which we’ve overused into pointlessness over the past ten years? Maybe, but disruption means more: it carries the weight of shaking up the status quo—of not only creating something new—but creating something that shifts models and opens [...]
Mad Men, Awesome Chairs, and a Pretty Big IT Problem
Next month Mad Men returns to AMC for its final season. I'll miss it. The show had some great character development, terrific dialogue, and cool cars. But the set design! Oh the set design. I'm a fan of mid-century modern—the sharp angles, clean lines, and wood tones mixed with bold, [...]
V-locity version 5 – The Director’s Cut
As you know, we just released V-locity version 5. Here’s the director’s cut.We committed a slew of engineers to several months of development to build an enterprise-class management console for V-locity. In a world where a couple developers with a few pizzas can create a robust app from scratch in [...]
V-locity version 5 – The Director’s Cut
As you know, we just released V-locity version 5. Here’s the director’s cut.We committed a slew of engineers to several months of development to build an enterprise-class management console for V-locity. In a world where a couple developers with a few pizzas can create a robust app from scratch in [...]
Announcing V-locity version 5
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.” - Bruce LeeRemoving the nonessential is a key element of simplicity and efficiency, yet it is deceptively difficult to accomplish. We need reminding. And then more reminding.When I get too caught-up in what’s on my desk, [...]
The Student Enrollment Blues
It was a bad day for Steve Bettoni, Tech Support and IT Procurement Officer of Stockport College. Steve is responsible for the infrastructure that supports the college's enrollment apps, SAP, and Exchange, so you can imagine his level of anxiety on enrollment day—the busiest day for any education institution—when the system [...]
Permission to Fail
A few months back, Jerry Baldwin, our CEO, gave me a strange assignment. "We need something different, something fun," he said. "Go write an ebook."I must have looked puzzled because he went on, "Write what you want, be creative. If I like it, we'll figure out what to do with [...]
When Big Data Hurts
I recently spoke with Bell Mobility's Adam Moore, a member of the organization's OSS Systems Integration Team. Bell Mobility is Bell Canada's wireless division, employing a multitude of analysts who eat, sleep, and breathe Big Data. They capture metrics and run analytics on call failures, call drops, and call volume—helping the company provide [...]
When Speed Matters Most
We talk a lot about data around here. Particularly, how to make it perform better, how to make applications respond faster, how to solve some of IT's most formidable challenges around managing increasingly complex data centers. But nothing compares to the importance of data performance when it comes to patient [...]
What is unnecessary I/O? Why does it exist?
Modern IT infrastructures deal with enough I/O traffic as it is. The last thing they need is unnecessary I/O. It's no surprise that IT struggles with performance problems caused by the tidal wave of data that travels back and forth across the infrastructure in the form of read and write I/O. [...]
Help! I deleted a file off the network drive!!
What if the recycle bin on your clients could be expanded to include file servers? And what if you could enable your users to recover their own files with self-service recovery? You would never have to dig through backups to restore files again, or schedule incessant snapshots to protect data. One [...]
Four Reasons to Migrate from Diskeeper Server to V-locity Server
Still on Diskeeper Server? Here’s four reasons to consider migrating to V-locity Server: 1. High performance. Whereas Diskeeper® Server, highlighted by IntelliWrite® technology, keeps Windows servers running like new, V-locity® Server™ goes a step beyond split I/O elimination with the inclusion of a server-side caching engine (IntelliMemory™) for performance boosts [...]
A Blog About Bloggers Who Blog About Us
On contemplating the impact of his calculating engine, the world’s first computer, Charles Babbage wrote “In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.” He said that in 1832. I mention this because the [...]