Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Pure Storage’s introduction of FlashBlade//S meets customer demand for substantial advances in density, performance, and power efficiency across their data storage environments as well as directly addresses the challenges of unstructured data expansion and modern application development.
IBM Systems Has A Tough Quarter, But That Is Not The Whole Story
Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the Q2 2021 results for IBM Systems. The headline results on the surface look troubling for Systems, however given the product life cycles of IBM Z and Power, and tough comparisons against Q2 2020, the business did surprisingly well and shows areas of growth and penetration in the marketplace.