The bid for 3PAR Dell caught the storage world’s attention when it made a bid that eventually got it into a bidding war with HP over 3PAR. At the time of writing the outcome of this battle is not settled, but the acquisitive Dell is squaring up to HP, EMC, IBM and Oracle. The bidding [...]
Dell the Challenger
Aug 31
Dell to buy 3PAR
Aug 16
Dell announced this morning that 3PAR has agreed to be acquired for $1.15Bn. (See previous 3PARpost from last Tuesday). The attraction for Dell is that it adds an enterprise class product to its portfolio, so fills a stragic aim. Dell will also undoubtedly be able to grow revenues quicker and faster than 3PAR on its [...]
3PAR Profile – Summer 2010
Aug 10
That 3PAR entered its 2nd decade in 2009, should not distract from the fact that the company is firmly mature. And youthful yet mature organisations wants to discuss the big issues of the day. In the Summer of 2010 the company is making great strides to promote the concepts of utility based computing and IT-as-a-service. [...]
Netapp Strategy Update
Jul 1
Netapp in June re-stated its focus regarding strategy, priorities and outlook. Netapp’s messages revolves around virtualization & cloud and are permeated by its long term commitment to data centre solutions from medium size up to large scale IT. Conversely, Netapp wants to eradicate any perception that it is a midrange supplier or a mere provider [...]
The 3rd Option by Axxana
Jun 15
Axxana briefed European analysts in June about its disaster recovery solution that captures all write operations even if the primary site suffers severe damage. The Disaster Recovery Dilemma Most IT professionals appreciate the philosophy of the ideal DR blueprint: by putting a significant distance between two or more interlinked IT sites. Should one site suffer [...]
EMC recently celebrated EMCWorld by announcing VPLEX, showing yet another vendor announcing a new layer to manage storage. If the traditional array was a purpose built computer dedicated to serve up storage, innovation soon demanded boxes that tinkered with this model. There have been many permutations of doing things differently, but with the same building [...]
Job for Life? IT Security attracted good attendance at Infosecurity in London this week. The different states of data being at rest, in motion, at-rest-yet-mobile etc. was discussed at length by the many suppliers and the IT professionals there. Human criminal ingenuity will no doubt continue to amaze and frustrate the world of IT by [...]
HDS on April 19 announced its intention to develop and deliver an open, unified compute platform catering for servers, storage, network and applications. Other vendors have also articulated similar unified computing visions such as EMC/VMware/Cisco with Vblock and HP with Matrix. HDS at this early stage articulates a concept of a “Scalable, unified compute platform [...]
Dot Hill today added more software function to its 3000 series, called AssuredSnap for snapshot, AssuredCopy for volume copy and AssuredRemote for remote replication. The new model numbers, (in addition to its 3000 initial C series), are called 3720S and 3730S and include AssuredSnap and AssuredCopy. While the top end models 3920R and 3930R includes [...]
Dot Hill Aims To Raise Its Storage Systems Profile Through Channel, OEM And Software Activities
Mar 24
Claus Egge, Martin Hingley Dot Hill Highlights Q1 2010 Has previously produced OEM disk array and controller products and software for Dell, Fujitsu, HP, NetApp, Sun and others Has supplied over 350k arrays in its 10 year history Has managed the loss of its large and highly profitable Sun business effectively over the last year [...]