Is the heading of this post as well as the heading of the Oracle press release on June 29th. It has been digested by many storage pundits focusing on the supposed failure of Pillar and Larry Ellison’s attempt to recover his investment in Pillar. Briefly: the deal folds Pillar into the Oracle storage organisation and [...]
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It was as late as in December 2008, that EMC announced the extension of its reseller agreement with Dell and both CEOs took part in an interview. This video can still be found on EMC site in several versions EMC Dell but a longer version is available on EMC Dell youtube . In the video [...]
EMC – Breaking a Few Records
Jan 18
EMC today launched a slew of announcements, probably the most the company ever made in a single event. The over-all banner for the announcement, which had been attempting to gather much publicity in advance was ‘Record Breaking’. In the event Joe Tucci and Pat Gelsinger, CEO and COO respectively, was joined on stage by 26 [...]
IBM Announced its new midrange Storwize V7000 Array, amid a bigger storage announcement yesterday. The new V7000 enjoys features from SVC and XIV. At a glance The V7000 standard features included: Easy Tier, FlashCopy & Thin Provisioning. Additional features are: Remote Mirroring, External Virtualization, FlashCopy Manager, TPC Midrange Edition, TivoliStorage Manager FastBack™, IBM Systems Director. [...]
HDS launched its new high-end VSP disk system this week. It features: SSD tier-0 Dynamic Tiering Thin Provisioning Faster controller processors, more bandwidth Lower energy footprint High-end or Midrange? The disk system vendors in the high-end segment are catering for very big arrays, while this segment has been under pressure from the high-end of midrange [...]
Dell the Challenger
Aug 31
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 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. [...]
Symantec enhances Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster File System and Veritas Cluster Server. In this announcement Symantec Dec 7 announcement improves the functionality of Veritas Storage Foundation (VSF) by such features as thin provisioning, enhancing failover and recognising SSD, as well as adding performance. Thin API. Veritas File System provides thin reclamation on third party [...]
