A place for my thoughts…
In many organisations most of the IT budget is spent where there is the least opportunity to create business value! Those of you that have heard me talk over the last 6 months or so will know that I have focused a lot on where and how the IT budget is spent. I’m lucky enough to be able to get to speak[…]
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I’m always intrigued as to when something becomes so important that people decide the time is right to do something about it. I almost decided not to post this video as it was from a trip several years ago now and I’ve told the story during a number of presentations, but I think it’s just such a wonderful example of[…]
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There’s a CTO that I meet up with occasionally when I’m in London, we discuss all sorts of different aspects of IT, I think we both really get a lot of of our discussions, I know that I do. During the last one we were talking about the ‘Evolution of IT’ and more specifically how this is happening within his[…]
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News Flash: Flash fails! it also fails differently! I think it’s really important to have this in your mind as you consider your Flash strategy, I’ve spoken and blogged many times now about how it’s becoming very clear that the biggest disruption being caused by Flash is in the Tier 1 space, Tier 1 is dead, dead, dead. But there are so many[…]
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I love trade shows! Now before you start thinking that’s an odd thing to say, let me explain why. I’ve been travelling a lot for the last couple of weeks which is why I haven’t spent much time updating my blog, I’ve been to a couple of trade shows and I have another to go to tomorrow, but why do[…]
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On my recent travels I had the great pleasure to record a Podcast with Nick Howell and Pete Flecha AKA “Datacenter Dude”, it was a lot of fun as well as being what I hope you would find to be an interesting conversation about how IT is evolving to meet the needs of the future of business. Here’s the link,[…]
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I hope the title of this blog post may have piqued your interest! I’ve spoken many times about how I predict the demise of Tier 1 storage due to the impact of All Flash Arrays, this is good for NetApp and here’s why… Whilst we power some of the most critical applications in the most critical environments across the world,[…]
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Schopenhauer was right, truth really does pass through three phases: First it is ridiculed. Second it is fiercely and violently opposed. Third, it becomes self-evident. One of the many great things about working in the IT industry, especially in storage is that we’re constantly having to evolve our technology to deal with data that’s growing faster than the capacity of[…]
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There are many very significant features that we’ve built into Clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT), these enable a fundamental change in the way companies build their storage infrastructures, but I’ve been trying to find my own way to describe just how significant it is. What does Seamless Scalability, Proven Efficiency and most importantly Non Disruptive Operations (NDO), which I feel is[…]
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I had a meeting a month or so back with an IT Director for one of the large banks in London, he’s always been a big fan of NetApp technology but is also very pragmatic about looking at all options when deciding on an Infrastructure. As with most companies I meet they are heavily invested into virtualisation, in this case[…]
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