I had a conversation last week with a PR company doing research for Netapp. This followed just after Netapp released their Q4 results, with revenue exceeding expectations at just over $1 billion. It’s amazing how in the space of less than 20 years they have developed from nothing to a company selling a single $4 [...]
EMC have just announced a new product – Storage Configuration Advisor (see the press release here). A quick review of the press release and the datasheet shows a remarkable similarity to Netapp’s SANScreen. Both products are pitched as datacentre automation tools – they monitor your configuration and highlight logical [...]
In a previous post earlier this year I mentioned the Onaro purchase by Network Appliance. As I said at the time, I wasn’t aware Onaro’s SANScreen product even had a NAS module. It seems I was wrong, and thanks for Deni O’Connor for indirectly pointing it [...]
The holidays are over and it’s back to work for me. In fact I returned yesterday; the break was good however it is also good to be back.
It seems that I’ve returned to a flurry of acquisitions. Yesterday there was the heavily reported (on the blogosphere) purchase of XiV by IBM. Tony [...]
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