VCE has been under a veil of mystery, which was partly created by the company itself. VCE produces Vblock™ Infrastructure Platforms and is the joint venture of EMC, CISCO and VMware with Intel as an investor. The behaviour of the competitors of this trio has showed that there is a real fear that VCE may [...]
Posts Tagged EMC
De-mystifying VCE
Oct 13
Fujitsu Technology Solutions is articulating a storage strategy of building out its own portfolio and only partnering with a select few. EMC becomes the casualty. Globality Fujitsu corporate, which once operated with different approaches in its different regions is now pursuing a Globalised approach. The overall corporate goal is to establish Fujitsu as an IT [...]
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 [...]
Cloud Storage is attracting initial interest, not least as off-site backup has been around way before the term Cloud was coined. This blog post demand-factors-in-storage-cloud addressed where initial demand comes from. Scepticism on the other hand arises from issues such as building the access points and the nature of providers who participate in the supply [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
