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, [...]
The recent proposed acquisition of 3Par by Dell and/or HP has made me think a little more about the direction the storage industry is taking in terms of their storage array design architecture. Since storage arrays became a category of devices in their own right, we’ve seen the growth of the monolithic, sometimes [...]
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 [...]
In preparation for tomorrow’s events, I thought it would be useful to summarise how the HP SAN products fit into some kind of roadmap. This is a first draft based on how I see things today. The roadmap is fairly self explanatory, but let me add a few comments.
XP24000 – definitely an [...]
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