Posts Tagged ‘3par’

3Par Acquisition: The Future For The Storage Industry

3Par Acquisition: The Future For The Storage Industry
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...
August 31st, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, GestaltIT, Ulitzer | Read More

Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part II

Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part II
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...
August 27th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, Ulitzer | Read More

HP Challenges Dell for 3Par

HP Challenges Dell for 3Par
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 acquisitive in the storage arena over the...
August 23rd, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, Ulitzer | Read More

Dell to Acquire 3Par

Dell to Acquire 3Par
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...
August 16th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Which Vendors Have the Right Vintage in 2010?

Enterprise Computing: Which Vendors Have the Right Vintage in 2010?
There’s no doubt that 2010 will prove to be another tough year in the storage industry.  Customers are looking to continue on cost reduction and austerity programmes, squeezing assets as much as they can.  Of all the storage vendors out there, which have got the the right vintage to succeed? ...
February 15th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Vendor Guarantees

Enterprise Computing: Vendor Guarantees
My previous post regarding HDS and 3Par’s savings guarantees generated a few replies and rather than respond in comment, I’ve written an additional post in case I rant on too much. First thought: vendor guarantees need to be genuine; no hiding behind obtuse configurations that help to fluff...
February 2nd, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured | Read More

Enterprise Computing: 3par and HDS – 50% Saving – Guaranteed?

Enterprise Computing: 3par and HDS – 50% Saving – Guaranteed?
In the past week, both 3Par and HDS have announced a 50% guarantee on reclaimed storage if customers move data from existing “fat” legacy arrays to 3Par storage or use HDS thin provisioning technologies.  The 3Par news release is here; the Hitachi news release is here. The 3Par guarantee...
January 29th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Is There Any Point Buying From EMC?

Yesterday, EMC announced Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), their much hyped and much anticipated storage feature enabling the automated moving of data between tiers of storage on a policy basis.  However the most notable missing feature in the EMC announcement was the lack of support for legacy...
December 9th, 2009 | Enterprise Storage, GestaltIT | Read More

Gestalt IT Tech Field Day – Day 1: MDS Micro, Xsigo, VMware

Gestalt IT Tech Field Day – Day 1: MDS Micro, Xsigo, VMware
Day 1 of the Gestalt IT Field Day started early at 7am with a trip to VMware and their executive briefing centre where breakfast was provided.   As well as food, there was an opportunity to see the “data centre in a rack”, used at VMworld to run all of the demo and presentation materials....
November 15th, 2009 | Featured, GestaltIT | Read More

GestaltIT Field Day: "Do You Know…" Contest

The GestaltIT Tech Field Day is only  few days away now and you can expect by this time next week we’ll have some interesting posts on the seven presenting sponsors.  By way of a warm-up, we’re providing a competition, full details of which can be found here.  So, follow the links to...
November 6th, 2009 | Enterprise Storage | Read More
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