Storage Nation

The good news — there's general consensus from the enterprise IT organization I speak with that — yes, they'd like to pursue a private cloud model. The challenging part — as they look around their data centers, all they can see is the legacy of past decisions: incompatible architectures, stove-pipe stacks and the rest.  It's like an archeology project: you can see the layers of different waves that have come through the IT organization. How can you move forward when all you can see is history

Once again, I exchanged some emails with a guy who is in the trenches with customers as much as I am:  Mike Linett, CEO of Zerowait.  This is from a continuing email exchange that I thought was worth sharing. Hi Mike,   Several inquiries have been coming my way to perform storage assessments as companies seek to drive