Storage projects, pains and people
Understanding storage pain points and projects for 2015 requires some insight into how the structure of the storage team is also changing.
Marco Coulter
Former AnalystBiography
Marco utilized nearly 30 years of experience in senior management and strategist positions on both the corporate and vendor sides of the IT industry. Marco's expertise include storage, internal and external cloud, data center operations, software/hardware purchasing, software development, marketing, and product programs.
Prior to the TheInfoPro, Marco was an advisor to Enterprise Information Systems where he led the re-architecture of storage capacity and fabrics designing for a cloud-competitive future. Mr Coulter brings experience as a product line Vice President growing sales of the incubation project by 20% within one year while managing remote teams in India, Israel and China. Marco has held senior management positions in Storage Strategy and Product Management. Considered an industry expert in storage management technologies and international leadership, Marco is a sought after speaker at executive events worldwide.
Recent Research from Marco Coulter
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Stagnant storage budgets favor EMC, IBM, HDS and HP over NetApp and Dell
Since 2011, average storage budgets have rolled downhill, changing the nature of enterprise procurement. While it's tough for all, some traditional vendors are better at having hot technologies compensate for sagging legacy revenue growth.
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Enterprises and vendors disagree on software-defined storage
Every vendor seems to have one or more definitions of software-defined storage that all differ somehow. Let's hear how storage professionals are defining the term in 2015, and look at what they plan to do or not do with SDS.
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All-flash arrays shaking up both traditional storage and other flash technologies
Flash is hot, and the drivers/inhibitors for AFAs help us to understand why the technology may even slow the growth of server-side flash and hybrid arrays. AFA leader EMC must be concerned about our new most exciting vendor, Pure Storage.
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Market Dynamics - Storage Wave 19
Designed for IT professionals, this report captures highlights from the complete study, and provides business intelligence in the form of technological roadmaps, budget trends, voice-of-the-customer narratives and vendor spending plans and performance ratings.
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Narratives - Storage Wave 19
This report compiles open-ended commentary from our in-depth interviews with IT professionals, which enables you to hear the direct 'voice of the customer' as enterprise end users discuss storage technology, their industry and the future of this sector.
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