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Data Trends

Thoughts and revelations on the evolution of technology and the enterprise data center.

Latest Posts

  • X10000 Digital Archeology: Uncovering Value Buried in Your Data Artifacts

    5–7 minutes

    In the past two decades, the concept of the value of data has changed drastically.  We have moved from a position where the value of data was measured in a half-life of seconds, to one where amassing huge amounts of it can be the difference between fighting the market, and dominating it.  The delta across this spectrum though is a more recent addition. In the early 2000’s, organizations were deeply entrenched in the delivery of data warehouse architectures. Data warehouses…

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  • HPE Private Cloud AI, the new standard in AI Vending Machines

    8–12 minutes

    For several years now vendors have been re-tooling their product stacks, if not only their talk tracks, to endear themselves to a value proposition including AI.  You seemingly can’t sit through any presentation on any topic without encountering it.  And while prior to our immersion in services like ChatGPT, AI might have felt extraneous to many in the commercial enterprise, few could argue today that there is not an AI gold rush happening.…

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  • HPE VM Essentials; A One Year Review

    7–11 minutes

    It’s hard to believe that a year has passed since HPE introduced VM Essentials, its new virtualization platform.  From announcement at HPE Discover 2024, major milestone features have been released on a rapid cadence of new capabilities, integrations, and market innovation which have propelled VME from a virtualization platform hopeful, to a capable and credible threat in the hypervisor industry. TL;DR – If you have been living under a rock and have not…

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