For this quarter’s article, instead of sharing a single topic, I wanted to give you a tour with short summaries of some of the highlights we’ve shared on our storage blogs. Let’s start the tour!
This posts looks at some of the additional costs you might encounter when you are looking at cloud storage.
Over the past four decades, storage and backup technologies have made evolutionary, but rapidly accelerating, progress; progress that has traversed all the way from the traditional reel-to-reel tapes, through disk drives and their virtual avatars, and ultimately, to breakthrough technologies like data deduplication and object storage that massively reduces data redundancy and overheads. Yet, data storage, being a long-term strategy and investment, has made it a herculean task for CIOs to embrace newer technologies and systems, especially at a time when enterprises are witnessing unprecedented levels of data generation.For organizations trying to improve their management of IT, ITIL® best practice has been one of the major sources of guidance. Before ITIL 4, the last version of ITIL was released in 2011. Since then, many organizations have undergone transformational change both to their business models and to the types of technology they use. How well does ITIL 4 align itself to this evolved business and technology landscape?