Why “it depends” with storage

Why “it depends” with storage

Mike Janson is the Principal Architect of the CTO Strategy Group at OnX Enterprise Solutions. In today’s tech-savvy society, many storage start-up companies are offering new and improved methods for preserving data. Flash arrays, object-based storage, cloud...
Benefits of storage consolidation

Benefits of storage consolidation

Mike Janson is the Principal Architect of the CTO Strategy Group at OnX Enterprise Solutions. Over the past few years, the scalability and capability of storage has continued to expand. While storage technology hasn’t quite been on par with processor technology (in...
The object of storage

The object of storage

Mike Janson is the Principal Architect of the CTO Strategy Group at OnX Enterprise Solutions. As data creation continues to flourish, innovative storage solutions have become all the hype in the IT marketplace. Most of the buzz is around flash arrays and...
Now where did I put that flash?

Now where did I put that flash?

For those of us who have been around the IT industry for a while, we have seen a lot of changes and an ever growing set of complexities as we ask our environments to continually do more for us. This has led to ever growing software tools that can manipulate data in...
The tall order for data storage

The tall order for data storage

When it comes to the data center one trend that everyone seems to be dealing with is the growth of the data they are keeping and backing up. Adding to the issue of data growth are new government regulations on how this data needs to be maintained; number of copies, on...