Steven Hill is a Senior Analyst of Applied Infrastructure and Storage Technologies at 451 Research. He covers the latest generation of software-defined systems, hybrid cloud storage, unstructured data management and business continuity/disaster recovery solutions for enterprise customers.
Prior to joining 451 Research, Steven was a Senior Analyst of Data Center Solutions for Current Analysis, with a specific focus on converged infrastructure and hybrid cloud technologies. For the 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 worldwide as an early advocate of server virtualization, converged systems, cloud delivery, network convergence and evolutionary storage technologies.
Western Digital's 2019 exit from datacenter systems put its IntelliFlash AFA and ActiveScale object platforms on sale. Quantum's acquisition of the ActiveScale business and IP provides an opportunity to evolve its offerings and enhance its focus on video and other forms of high-density IoT data.
As IT's exodus to the cloud marches on, the amount of spending on hardware targets dwindles apace. Spending on semiconductors, systems and storage fell to its lowest level in seven years as demand for IT hardware targets continued to decline in 2019.
The company is looking to natively span both on- and off-premises platforms with its validated data protection for AWS Outposts, and now offers the option to leverage all tiers of S3 storage for long-term data protection and archiving purposes.
There was a time when data backup was the only option for protecting a business IT, but today's data protection has evolved. HYCU has made deep integration with the Nutanix platform a major part of a design model that looks to make data protection seamless and native to the Nutanix customer.
Global business leaders have at their collective disposal the digital and physical tools to innovate, serve customers, drive efficiencies, and create and increase value faster than ever before. The modern, cloud-native IT environment -- with its intelligently connected and orchestrated multi/hybrid/edge execution venues supporting workloads like IoT and AI -- is becoming too complex, distributed and strategic for humans to manage alone. The result is a growing need to rethink end-to-end IT strategy and architecture, partners, consumption models, and organizational alignment to support the increasing reliance on intelligent toolchains and algorithms to run efficiently.
The company's new Metallic offering brings SaaS data protection capabilities under a new brand, which should position it well in the highly competitive midmarket, where simplicity is becoming as important as cost and enhanced availability.
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