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At Cloud Field Day 9 Netapp presented some of its cloud solutions. This comes on the heels of NetApp Insight , the annual corporate event that should give its user base not just new products but also a general overview of the company strategy for the future. NetApp presented a lot of interesting news and projects around multi-cloud data and system management. The Transition to Data Fabric This is not the first time that NetApp radically changed its strategy. Do you remember when NetApp was the boring ONTAP-only company? Not that there is anything wrong with ONTAP of course (the storage OS originally designed by NetApp is still at the core of many of its storage appliances). It just can’t be the solution for everything, even if it does work pretty well. When ONTAP was the only answer to every question (even with StorageGrid and EF systems already part of the portfolio), the company started to look boring and, honestly, not very credible. The day the Data Fabric vision was announced...

Yes, much of the world may have moved on from email to social media and culturally dubious TikTok dances, yet traditional electronic mail remains a foundation of business communication. And sadly, it remains a prime vector for malware, data leakage, and phishing attacks that can undermine enterprise protections. It doesn’t have to be that way. In a just released report titled “ GigaOm Radar for Phishing Prevention and Detection ,” GigaOm Analyst Simon Gibson surveyed more than a dozen enterprise-focused email security solutions. He found a range of approaches to securing communications that often can be fitted together to provide critical, defense-in-depth protection against even determined attackers. Figure 1. GigaOm Radar for Email Phishing Prevention and Detection “When evaluating these vendors and their solutions, it is important to consider your own business and workflow,” Gibson writes in the report, stressing the need to deploy solutions that best address your organization’...

Could we be entering an era of hands-free data centers, where remote software and robotics handle tasks that until now have fallen to human technicians? That prospect may not be as far off as you think, according to a recent InformationWeek article by John Edwards that explores the push to make data centers autonomous. As Edwards reports, the COVID-19 pandemic has helped force the issue, with data centers worldwide operating at sharply reduced headcount. GigaOm Analyst Ned Bellavance was cited in the article. He urged IT managers to establish the proper foundation for an automation effort, cautioning that existing data center deployments may be difficult to transition to full hands-free operation. He stressed that a homogeneous and standardized environment is important to achieving success. As a case in point, Bellavance singles out Microsoft’s Project Natick, an effort to develop enclosed data centers that can be deployed in coastal waters on the seafloor. Microsoft in 2018 deploy...

DevOps’ general aim is to enable a more efficient process for producing software and technology solutions and bringing stakeholders together to speed up delivery. But we know from experience that this inherently creative, outcome-driven approach often forgets about one thing until too late in the process—security. Too often, security is brought into the timeline just before deployment, risking last minute headaches and major delays. The security team is pushed into being the Greek chorus of the process, “ruining everyone’s fun” by demanding changes and slowing things down. But as we know, in the complex, multi-cloud and containerized environment we find ourselves in, security is becoming more important and challenging than ever. And the costs of security failure are not only measured in slower deployment, but in compliance breaches and reputational damage. The term “DevSecOps” has been coined to characterize how security needs to be at the heart of the DevOps process. This is in part...

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” It’s an old management saw, but one rooted in truth, especially in the arena of software development where establishing a common vision and language of success can be so important. DevOps practices have for years given organizations a model for linking and streamlining processes, enabling both continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD). But as GigaOm VP of Research Jon Collins explains, businesses still struggle with understanding the actual value derived from these processes. In his recent Strategy Considerations report, “ Driving Value Through Visibility ,” Jon emphasizes that delivering on innovation requires more than moving from a project to a product mindset. It hinges on the ability to measure success, across both the products you create and the processes you use to create them. “Across organizations today, we’re seeing DevOps have to up the ante—to move beyond simply doing things faster and towards enabling softw...

So-called legacy software gets that name for a reason—it’s done enough for the organization over the years to earn a legacy enabling the business. But as GigaOm Analyst Ned Bellavance notes in a recently published GigaOm benchmark report (“ Costs and Benefits of .NET Application Migration to the Cloud ”), aging on-premises applications and infrastructure can work against businesses as they seek to scale, innovate, and grow. A cloud modernization effort can change that. By migrating application logic and functionality to the cloud, enterprises avail themselves of the matchless scalability and managed services offered by major cloud providers. In the report, Bellevance lays out four options for organizations looking to cloudify their application portfolios. Figure 1: Cloud Application Modernization Spectrum Rehost: “Lift-and-shift” virtual machines running on on-premises servers to cloud-based servers. Simple and quick. Replatform: Migrate application logic (say, ASP.NET apps) t...

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One of the most interesting and successful research projects I’ve worked on lately was the one about unstructured data management. Our clients loved the Key Criteria and Radar reports, and I had many fascinating conversations with vendors and users about what is coming next in this space. Why Unstructured Data Management First, let’s be clear here—explosive data growth is not something you can bargain with or avoid. You can’t stop it. Human-generated data has been joined by a growing host of sensors, cameras, and countless other devices that are capable of producing overwhelming amounts of data for an incredibly diverse range of use cases. Most of this data we are keeping in our on-premises and cloud storage systems. Some of this data is analyzed almost immediately and then lays dormant for quite a long time, sometimes forever. There are plenty of reasons to keep data around for long periods of time—internal policy, compliance, regulations, you name it. Traditional storage systems a...

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has quickly earned a place in the datacenter, mostly due to the promise of infrastructure simplification. HCI has already worked very well for virtualized infrastructures, but will this be the case with Kubernetes? There’s reason for optimism, and I offer a couple thoughts here as to why. HCI is one of many ways to build your computing stack. The idea is to virtualize and collapse several components of the stack, including storage and networking, alongside compute resources (virtual machines). The approach trades off some performance for enhanced flexibility and ease of use. In its early iterations, HCI was a good fit for mostly small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) and vertical applications such as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Now the performance gap has narrowed and HCI can be leveraged across a broader range of applications. Some IT organizations have made HCI their go-to technology, with 90% of their data centers built around HCI! Ku...

Storage vendors, especially startups, are finally supporting new media types in their systems. In this article I want to talk about the impact that quad-level cell (QLC) NAND memory and Intel Optane have in the development of scale-out systems and how vendors like VAST Data are taking full advantage of them in their product design. In my recent GigaOm report about scale-out file storage ( Key Criteria for Evaluating Scale-Out File Storage ), I mentioned several key criteria that can help users evaluate this type of storage system. Today I want to explore specific solution functionality that can make a difference in a scale-out storage deployment, and how it should impact your thinking. Key Criteria, Considered Before I go further, however, I want to dive into the structure of our GigaOm Key Criteria reports and how they help inform decision making. For each sector we assess, the Key Criteria report explores three sets of criteria specific to that sector. They are: Table stakes are...

As the world’s ice sheets have been cracking up and melting down, climatologists have warned that further decimation could cause devastating levels of sea level rise from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/09/antarctica-and-greenland-are-on-track-for-the-worst-case-climate-scenario/

Sometimes the best thing to do is step away from your desk, yet it’s not easy when there are a billion things on our screens to hold our attention. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/09/literally-pause-the-internet-with-this-built-in-browser-tool/

Based on some new rumors, in addition to refreshes and spec bumps for existing systems, Microsoft may also release a new more affordable version of its Surface Laptop. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/09/microsoft-may-release-a-cheaper-surface-laptop-this-fall/

Disney stands accused of overlooking actual oppression of Muslims in China to make its movie about a woman who overcomes systemic oppression from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/09/disneys-mulan-faces-backlash-for-thanking-chinese-region-marred-by-human-rights-violations/

A groundbreaking survey of over 10 million star systems has failed to detect signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/09/another-sweeping-search-for-aliens-comes-up-short/

If you’re able to upgrade, here are 15 new tricks you can try that aren’t available on devices still running Android 10 or older. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/09/15-things-you-can-do-in-android-11-that-you-couldnt-do-before/

On Tuesday, Google announced a new program that seeks to rectify the situation by offering a verification service for companies that you might actually want to hear from. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/09/googles-taking-on-robocallers-with-a-new-kind-of-caller-id/

Now it seems it’s up to Michael and her friends to remind the future of what the Federation has fought hard to stand for. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/09/star-trek-discoverys-new-trailer-brings-the-fight-for-the-federation-to-the-far-future/

Apple nerds, mark your calendars. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/09/apples-annual-iphone-event-is-september-15-and-heres-what-we-could-see/

Although the spacecraft is top secret—we’re not even privy to its design—there are some things that China apparently wants the world to know about it. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/09/china-launched-and-landed-a-secret-reusable-spacecraft-while-you-werent-looking/