Posts Tagged ‘HP’

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

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

Enterprise Computing: Six Reasons Why Tape is Still Alive and Kicking!

Enterprise Computing: Six Reasons Why Tape is Still Alive and Kicking!
In homage to Calvin’s post of today, extolling the virtues of tape, I couldn’t help but create my own tongue-in-cheek version of his post.  So here are my reasons tape still exists in the enterprise. Because we just spent $5million on huge automated tape libraries (that mount each tape...
May 18th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured | Read More

Enterprise Computing: The Slow Demise of The Hard Drive

Enterprise Computing: The Slow Demise of The Hard Drive
Yesterday Nimbus Data Systems announced the release of their S-Class storage array.  What’s different about this storage device is that it uses purely NAND memory rather than traditional spinning disk.  With it’s arrival, we’re seeing another nail in the coffin of the traditional...
April 27th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured | Read More

Enterprise Computing: HP Blades Tech Day 1

Enterprise Computing: HP Blades Tech Day 1
HP Blades Tech Day 1 is now over and what a whirlwind of a day it was.  Here’s a summary of the day’s activities: Overview of ISB (Infrastructure Software and Blades) from Gary Thome Partner Presentation from Mark Gonzalez Overview of Virtual Connect from Mike Kendall BladeSystem lab (hands...
March 2nd, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: New HP Arrays – Updated

Enterprise Computing: New HP Arrays – Updated
Today HP will announce two new storage arrays.  Although taken from different product families, the hardware will be branded in a consistent manner, demonstrating HPs desire to bring together a range of storage technologies they’ve purchased over the last few years. P2000 G3 MSA (Modular Smart...
February 16th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, GestaltIT | 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: HP Announces Converged Infrastructure Architecture

Barely a day has gone by since EMC, VMware and Cisco announced their partnership, and now we have a view on HP’s strategy.  Today, HP announce their private cloud offering – Converged Infrastructure Architecture (CIA), putting them squarely head-to-head with the VCE coalition.  So what’s...
November 4th, 2009 | Enterprise Storage | Read More

LeftHand – a case for a new application category

HP announced today their intention to acquire LeftHand networks, an iSCSI and virtualised SAN player. Now, I doubt HP needed to buy LeftHand for their iSCSI technology. I suspect the bigger play here is the virtualised SAN technology they have – also known as the Virtual SAN Appliance. This allows...
October 2nd, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More
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