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Cohesity: More on the real value of data

Anyone who’s read my stuff, or paid attention to what’s happened in backup over the past few years are aware that backup itself is only part of…… Read more “Cohesity: More on the real value of data”

Remember, Metadata is the data about the data. File creation dates, creator, size, versions, etc. are part of this. The metadata, provided there’s a manner by which…… Read more “The True Value of Data Part IV – The Financial side of Metadata”

What do we mean about metadata for performance? The amount of data collected and traditionally ignored from your systems (cpu, storage, network, security, intrusion detection, etc.) can…… Read more “The true value of data: Part III – The Metadata for performance”

I’ve been thinking of Probability/Predictive analytics and how it relates to the value of data within an organization’s data center lately. Probability theory began to be an…… Read more “The true value of data and predictive analysis”

We’ve all seen dashboards for given systems. A dashboard is essentially a quick view into a given system. We are seeing these more and more often in…… Read more “IT System Dashboards: Are they as helpful as they should be?”

The vast majority of my customers are highly virtualized, and quite potentially using Amazon or Azure in a shadow IT kind of approach. Some groups within the…… Read more “Shadow IT and the emergence of Cloud in the Enterprise”