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Taneja Group analysts have loads of experience in both the vendor and end-user IT communities, which gives them a unique view of industry trends, vendors and products. It’s their long-running, hands-on experience that enables them to provide the insightful commentary that journalists need.
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Predictive Coding For Document Review: Real? Yes. Game Changer? Not yet.
This Opinion will discuss the use of predictive coding for automated document re- view. Predictive coding has been stampeding the eDiscovery press for the last few weeks as a certain company patents some specific technologies around the process. (They tried to register “predictive coding” as a trademark but that got shot down.) However, the resulting storm of protest pointed out three important things: 1) eDiscovery vendors have used elements of predictive coding for years but may call it something else, 2) predictive coding can occur throughout the eDiscovery cycle, and 3) predic- tive coding for automated review is not ready to take the legal world by storm.
Is Cloud-Enabled DR Ready for Prime Time?
Industry article by Jeff Boles and Jeff Byrne published in InfoStor that explores whether cloud-based DR technologies are suitable for adoption by small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The article concludes that these technologies are “ready for prime time”, as long as they meet four specific criteria for cloud-enabled DR solutions.
EMC Acquires Isilon
On November 17, 2010, EMC announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Isilon, a publicly held scale-out NAS vendor based in Seattle, WA, for $2.25B in cash. The deal represents EMC’s largest acquisition in 2010. Isilon has about 500 employees and an annual revenue run rate of $200M. Its product line boasts a genuine scale-out architecture that can scale from 3 to 144 nodes. Isilon currently has just under 1500 customers worldwide. The Isilon unit will be combined with the Atmos group and the two solutions presented together for “big” data and cloud-based solutions
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NetApp Refreshes Product Line
On November 9, 2010, NetApp refreshed a significant portion of their hardware and several key pieces of their software, along with adding a unified connect capability over 10GbE. New or enhanced software included a minor update release to Data ONTAP and a new OnCommand Management Suite designed to present a more holistic view of the infrastructure and make purchasing optional software easier. One of the key aspects of the new release of Data ONTAP 8.0.1 is that it includes inline compression capability applied across all protocols (NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, FCoE). This capability is in addition to the dedupe function that already has been shipping for several years.
Midrange Reinvented - the IBM Storwize V7000
In this Product in Depth, we take a look at the IBM Storwize V7000 and how it has harnessed a unique range of sophisticated heterogeneous storage virtualization technology from the IBM portfolio of intellectual property, and turned these technologies into building blocks for a next generation mid-range storage array. The result is a unique foundation to unify the consolidating and virtualizing infrastructure.
Symantec NetBackup 5000 appliance - end to end capacity optimization for the enterprise
Opinion piece on Symantec's new deduplication appliance the NBU 5000 appliance.