Infrastructure Analytics is the analyst firm founded by Mike Karp, a 30-year industry veteran of the systems, data storage, and telecoms segments. IA's expertise centers around the technical and business requirements necessary to bring storage products into the marketplace.

What We Do

IA provides primary research, supporting collateral, technical analysis and business analysis to vendors in the computer industry, to their channel partners, and to their strategic allies. Our expertise lies at the intersect point between technology and sales; ourfocus is on go-to-market issues. 

While storage markets are our primary focus, fundamental to our approach is the idea that both the business and technical aspects of midrange and enterprise storage can only be understood within the context of the overall IT infrastructure. (We treat SMB markets differently.)

Working with our clients, IA delivers documentation, strategic analysis and actionable tactical solutions that help our clients address these markets.

(As a close reading of this sign from Cheshire England clearly demonstrates, construction in the UK is far more fun than it is in the US.  While we certainly enjoy building this site, propriety allows us merely to ask that you please bear with us while our website us under construction. Thanks!)

The Rant

Infrastructure Analytics believes that the way most analyst firms segment markets is just plain wrong! (Actually, and with a bit of an apology to Dorothy Parker, we feel it's fancy wrong.  Wrong with raisins in it.)

Why are those other guys wrong? Click here.

The StorageKilter blog

StorageKilter, the online journal for Infrastructure Analytics, offers a different slant on storage and storage management, and on the technical and social infrastructures with which storage admins interact on a daily basis.

This week we blog on EMC and the cloud. Want to know why? For a new slant on storage, read the Storagekilter blog.

Want to cut to the chase and set up a briefing?  (They're free, you know.) Click here.