Author Archives: Bryan Betts
How can you discuss storage with business people without losing their attention?
Thankfully, the days when IT was seen simply as an unwelcome but necessary cost are[...]
Software Development Methodology Wars
Don’t get caught in the crossfire between evangelists It is in the nature of technology[...]
All-Flash Arrays
All-Flash is becoming ‘the new normal’ in enterprise storage, but is right consider it as[...]
DevOps and Cloud Computing
Many are exploiting cloud computing to drive business advantage, while others are enjoying the flexibility[...]
Getting into Software-Defined Storage
In a nutshell Software-defined storage, or SDS, has the potential to significantly change how you[...]
Understanding Software-Defined Storage
In a nutshell The term “software-defined storage” (SDS) is all over the press, yet sometimes[...]
Digital Workplace Transformation
The business context for Windows 10 in financial services There is a digital divide at[...]
It’s Artificial Intelligence, but not as we know it
Ed: AI is figuring more and more prominently in our industry coverage at Freeform Dynamics.[...]
Five years later, the hybrid cloud is real
When we surveyed over 300 IT and business professionals back in 2011 on their attitudes[...]
Unleashing the full potential of all-flash arrays
The network is part of the system too
Scale-out storage: Proprietary? Commodity? Or both?
There is no doubting that scale-out storage is now thoroughly achievable. Indeed, scale-out is pretty[...]
Will open source storage make the hyperscale dream real?
Open-source software has become an important presence in many areas of IT, and now, as[...]
You can do more with backup than just cloning your data
As we all know, the world of backup is changing, and not just in obvious[...]
What hyper-converged storage really means for you
To paraphrase an old joke, ask three IT “experts” for a definition of hyper-convergence and[...]
Eight Best Practices for Cloud Security
There’s been a lot of FUD spread around in recent years on the subject of[...]