Steven Hill
Senior Analyst, Storage | Green Bay, WIBiography
Steven Hill is a Senior Analyst of Storage technologies. He covers the latest generation of hyperconverged systems, cloud-based storage and business continuity/disaster recovery solutions for enterprise customers.
Prior to joining 451 Research, Steven spent two years evaluating datacenter hardware and software products and vendors as the Senior Analyst, Data Center Solutions for Current Analysis, with a specific focus on converged infrastructure and hybrid cloud technologies. For a decade prior to joining Current Analysis, Steven was an independent speaker, writer and analyst on datacenter technologies, and served as the Technology Editor of Storage and Servers for Network Computing Magazine. He has authored numerous articles on enterprise-class computing systems and spoken throughout the US as an early advocate of server virtualization, converged systems, cloud delivery and network convergence technologies. Prior to that, he spent 13 years serving a number of technologist roles as an imaging systems administrator and departmental manager for Shopko Stores, Inc., a Fortune-500 retail corporation.
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Recent Research from Steven Hill
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Metadata Sets the Stage for Next-Generation Data Management
Data growth has been a problem for decades, and unstructured data in the form of documents, data files and media now makes up a growing majority of our business data. Adding capacity doesn't solve the long-term problem, but we believe the rich metadata capabilities of object storage can be key to identifying and managing data regardless of its physical location. The next challenge is defining a common model for business metadata and the role artificial intelligence can play in providing it.
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Cloudian buys Infinity Storage to boost its scale-out NAS initiative
Cloudian has announced that it has acquired Infinity Storage, which includes the team and technology behind its new HyperFile NAS platform. Cloudian introduced HyperFile at the end of 2017 to more closely integrate file-based services with its object platform.
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SaaS data protection - a growing opportunity for backup players and service providers
One of the benefits of SaaS is that it offers a more hands-off approach, but this can also result in a lack of protection for the data being generated by SaaS applications. Enterprises need to know if SaaS data is being protected by the service provider, and if not, how to best implement their own plans for backup.
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NVMe shapes up as challenge and opportunity for storage
The emerging NVMe standard heavily boosts flash storage performance, but creates challenges in fully exploiting its benefits. Some startups think they have the answers, using unusual architectures. Is this the future of storage?
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LINBIT grows its proven HA platform for Linux to cover software-defined storage
The company's distributed replicated block device technology is a powerful contribution to the Linux kernel, offering an integrated open source model for building high-availability clusters. With the growing interest in scale-out storage systems and hybrid cloud, DRBD's HA roots may be a natural fit for protecting distributed software-defined storage.
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