Dell’s first ever European Storage Forum ended today in London. It was similar in format to the Florida event I attended, about which I wrote this post. This meant senior execs flying in to first of all meet customers, but also channel partners, industry analysts, bloggers etc. And to participate in hospitality with the attendees. [...]
Posts Tagged Compellent
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 [...]
The Dell Storage Forum was held in Orlando Florida; a continuation of what used to be called Compellent C-Drive. As the name implies it is a customer event focused on storage. As I have stated before, Dell the company and Dell the CEO, intends the company to be like HP and IBM (Dell the Challenger). [...]
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 [...]
Compellent announced today it’s improvements to its Storage Center software as well as upgrades to its hardware portfolio. The company’s stock price recently surged after the Q3 record earnings and profit (Oct. 26), new investor guidance and enjoying the general storage segment rally following the Isilon bid by EMC. Storage Center The new Storage Center [...]
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 [...]
