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Intel Inside Storage Arrays?

By On September 23, 2011 · 9 Comments · In Storage

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 [...]

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Compellent – The Inevitable Acquisition

By On December 10, 2010 · 4 Comments · In Storage

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 here.  Even as recently as a couple of weeks ago, [...]

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Brief Interview with Vish Mulchand of 3Par

By On October 19, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Featured, Videos, Virtualisation

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 support for [...]

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HP Converged Infrastructure Event – 3PAR Is The Big Story

By On October 15, 2010 · 6 Comments · In Featured, Storage, Ulitzer

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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Two Weeks in Review

By On October 10, 2010 · 4 Comments · In Storage, Ulitzer

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for me, with two lots of travelling in different directions.  Last week I was in Barcelona at the HP Converged Infrastructure (CI)Event and the week previously at HDS’s launch of the new VSP (Virtual Storage Platform).  Both HP and HDS released their new platform at the same time [...]

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EMC Delays New CLARiiON and Celerra? – UPDATED

By On October 3, 2010 · 5 Comments · In Storage, Ulitzer

According to this Barrons report, EMC are delayed in the release of their next generation of CLARiiON and Celerra hardware until around April next year.  I’m not aware of details of any new products, but I suspect that EMC is looking to harmonise these two product lines into a single piece [...]

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3Par Acquisition: The Future For The Storage Industry

By On August 31, 2010 · 6 Comments · In Featured, GestaltIT, Storage, Ulitzer

The ongoing battle for 3Par by HP & Dell tells us much more about the state of the IT Industry than just the desires of two companies to acquire some interesting storage tech.  It signals an acceptance that storage is a key feature in the future direction of the IT industry – more important than [...]

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Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part II

By On August 27, 2010 · 13 Comments · In Featured, Storage, Ulitzer

This is a series of post discussing storage array architectures.  Previous posts:

Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part I

In the first post, I discussed the shared storage model architectures typified by what we sometimes think of as Enterprise arrays, but I’ve called monolithic.  This term harks back to the mainframe [...]

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HP Challenges Dell for 3Par

By On August 23, 2010 · 8 Comments · In Featured, Storage, Ulitzer

So there we have it.  A week after Dell announce their intention to acquire 3Par, HP put their cards on the table and trump the Dell bid with an updated offer of $24 a share.  This represents a 1/3 increase over the Dell $18/share offer.

HP have been pretty [...]

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Dell to Acquire 3Par

By On August 16, 2010 · 4 Comments · In Featured, Storage

There’s nothing like a bit of surprise (ish) tech news to generate an off the cuff quick post; here’s today’s tidbit.  Dell are to acquire 3Par.

Clearly the Farley Curse has struck again and for a mere $1.15 billion Dell plugs another gap in their storage portfolio.

Let’s face it, Equallogic [...]

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