The Biggar Picture: The Business Optimization Blog

Ask just about anyone if they’d like to repeat 2010, and the answer you’ll resoundingly hear is “No!”  Without a doubt, 2009 was a challenging year for most markets, most organizations and most individuals – and storage markets were certainly no exception. Read More

I was a senior technology editor at InfoStor when EMC announced its storage virtualization platform back in May 2005. In fact, I actually covered the story, and reported on EMC’s claims that it would revolutionize storage virtualization with its networked-based offering – a solution the company said was more reliable and more scalable than competitive offerings on the marketing. This included Hitachi’s Universal Storage Platform V and VM platforms, which were introduced the previous September. Read More

The economy is responsible for a lot of things these days… some good and, well, a lot not so good. I don’t know about you, but I’m really tired of all the negativity. Read More

All you have to do is click on the television or take a walk through your local retailer – and you are quickly reminded that it’s Breast Cancer awareness month. Pink ribbons adorn everything from running shoes to cereal boxes, to cosmetics, to electronics, to home improvement products, etc. Read More

It’s a well-known fact: This industry has a tendency to use a multitude of names to describe a single technology or on the flip side, to glom onto a single name to describe a number of distinctly different technologies. Sometime it’s unintentional – and sometime it’s not. Read More

Recent data from the Enterprise Strategy Group confirms a growing trend:  A significant number of organizations today are virtualizing their tier-1 applications, and many more plan to do so (see graph below). And for really good reason. Read More

Clouds peppered the skies at last week’s VMworld.  Well, inside anyway. Outside, the weather was typical of San Francisco in late summer – blue skies, brisk winds, daytime highs in the 70s. Nice! Read More

It continually amazes me how despite the huge technology advances the industry makes each year, true business continuity and disaster recovery still eludes many organizations today – the biggest of big enterprises, the smallest of small shops and those in-between.

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If you think about it, life is really just an infinite string of “firsts.” Some are simply more monumental – and long-lasting – than others.

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