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Bad Day At The Office For Dell, HP & Netapp

By On May 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Opinion, Storage

Just a quick post on news that came over the wire late UK time.

Dell saw their share price drop by 17% today on weak quarterly figures, as reported by Forbes, with seemingly significant drops in their consumer business.  Could this partly be the Apple effect? Dell are working hard at building their [...]

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EMC Enters The Market With “Me Too” Flash Products

By On February 7, 2012 · 8 Comments · In Storage

Yesterday EMC finally revealed the details on their not-so-secret Lightning and Thunder flash projects.  Fortunately this launch event didn’t include cramming small people into minis or firing Chad Sakac out of a cannon, but was more focused on the market and products EMC are bringing to it.  There was also a large amount of Twitter [...]

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Data Robotics Releases Business-class Arrays

By On February 8, 2011 · 4 Comments · In Featured, Storage

Today Data Robotics (Drobo) are announcing a new range of storage devices specifically targeted at business customers.  However this is a market that already has many players; what are they offering and how will they fare in this already competitive market?

New Devices

First of all, let’s take a look at [...]

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HP & Violin?

By On January 31, 2011 · 8 Comments · In Featured, Storage

I found the following article from last week’s “The Register” an interesting one:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/27/hp_and_violin_memory/

In it, Chris Mellor talks about HP producing an Oracle Exadata competitor by integrating the use of Violin Memory’s all-SSD storage array.  Folks may remember that I predicted exactly this set up in the following post:

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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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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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HDS and HP Release New Enterprise Array

By On September 27, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Storage, Ulitzer

Today HDS and HP will announce the next generation enterprise storage array architecture from Hitachi (see details here and here).  Both companies OEM the  VSP (HDS name) or 9500 (HP name) and so the releases are co-ordinated to occur at the same time.  I am currently in Santa Clara for [...]

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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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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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