Information Security budget planning – does your donkey have a tail?
One of the most difficult problems in securing any business that depends on information technology is working out what “secure enough” looks like. Every stakeholder will have a different view, and offer a different opinion on the ideal outcome. These opinions come...
The Innovator’s Dilemma: Disk Drive Vendors Getting Into The Array Business
In a classic move worthy of The Innovator's Dilemma, a number of recent announcements by flash and HDD vendors have continued a trend that could have the incumbent shared storage array vendors worried. In December 2014, HGST, a subsidiary of drive manufacturer...
Hitachi’s Evolving Data Management Strategy
At the beginning of the year I wrote a post over at the Architecting IT Blog talking about what we can expect for storage in 2015. This coming year I believe we need to see more on the management of data and less of a focus on storage hardware per-se. To a certain...