This coming week I will be in Las Vegas for HP Discover 2013. I was last here 2 years ago and HP have had a turbulent time since then, especially with their mobile strategy and the Autonomy acquisition. From my perspective, I’m interested to hear about new developments on the [...]
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At the recent HP Discover event in Frankfurt, HP announced their latest storage products in what was billed as their “most important/exciting announcement in 10 years”. As well as re-branding the storage platforms from IBM-esque naming to more user friendly (and presumably copyright and trademark-able) monikers [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I did a webcast with Hewlett Packard’s David Scott, General Manager of their storage division. The event was MC’d by Calvin Zito, the infamous @hpstorageguy. In the video we talk about some of the general challenges in storage and of course as you’d expect, David [...]
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During one of the Intel presentations at the Developer Forum last week the presenter made the statement that Intel processors are deployed in 70%-80% of storage arrays shipped today. Initially this may seem like a surprise but on closer inspection, it’s pretty obvious to see that it’s probably an accurate statement. EMC converted to Xeon [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Well, the announcement has been made and it’s official, Dell and Compellent are in talks over a “merger” which basically means Dell acquiring Compellent for around $27.50 per share. The press release can be found Continue Reading This Post →
At 360IT last month I managed to catch up with Vish Mulchand, Director of Software Product Marketing. Vish talks about Oracle VM Server support and other virtualisation platforms, including VMware, Hyper-V and Xen. In a virtual world, storage and virtualisation integration is going to be key. 3Par have already demonstrated their [...]
Continue Reading This Post →I’ve just returned from spending two days in Barcelona, attending the HP Converged Infrastructure Event.
Disclaimer: HP paid for my flights, hotels and meals during this trip. I was otherwise not remunerated for my time or required to blog about the event.
The event was more a media/press session rather than a technical deep dive, [...]
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