Dell’s recent strategy shows its many initiatives to bolster its credentials as a full system vendor. The key motivation for this strategy is (1) size followed by (2) portfolio. Size is everything for the world’s top IT vendors and Dell wants its share of the spoils, hence its desire for revenue streams, scale and economies [...]
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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. [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
