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 [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been using VMware products for close to 10 years now. Scanning back on my purchase history, the first version of VMware Workstation I bought was 2.0.1 for NT & 2000 back in August 2001. I was an immediate fan of the product and at the time used it on a software development [...]
I’ve just been reading Greg Knieriemen’s post over at iknerd.com on the ending of Sun/Oracle’s OEM agreement with Hitachi to resell their high end storage arrays. On the one hand I’m surprised by the announcement; on the other I’m not.
Sun have resold Hitachi for some time under the 9990V and 9985V [...]
So all the debate about IBM buying Sun Microsystems has counted for nothing. Oracle have stepped in and acquired the company for $9.50 a share in cash. Here’s the press release.
Now I only saw the news a few minutes ago but already my mind is racing. Firstly, Oracle doesn’t strike [...]
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