Category: Market Trends

It’s not often that storage related news makes it off the IT pages and into the mainstream headlines, but within the space of a few days recently Big Data was featured in the pages of The Economist, graced the front page of the BBC’s website, and was the lead article in a recent McKinsey Quarterly.

So what’s all the fuss…

For many of us, the decision to attend an institution in higher education was based on a pretty simple business case. Beer, independence, spring break … you get my drift. With such a significant investment, our families must have had a good reason to remain supportive, right? After a few 200-level business classes, the realization sets in that those who…

In high school I worked for a French restaurant in a nearby affluent town in the suburbs of Boston. One of my co-worker friends attended Concord Academy, a prep school in the area. Some weekends we’d finish work at the restaurant around 11:00 pm and head into Harvard Square to catch a midnight show at the Brattle Theatre. On a…

It’s interesting to watch new IT technologies that emerge and see how they influence other processes that surround them. In a heavily connected, well integrated IT environment you’d like all the pieces to move forward at the same rate, kind of like a marching band where all the rows line up. A lot of the time, though, it seems that…