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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

IBM to Acquire StorWize

IBM to Acquire StorWize
I read with interest yesterday’s announcement from IBM that they are to acquire Storwize, a vendor of NAS compression technology.  Maybe I don’t understand enough about the technology, however I don’t see much benefit in installing an application in front of my NAS environment to...
July 30th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Violin Memory Inc Release New All-SSD Array

Enterprise Computing: Violin Memory Inc Release New All-SSD Array
I’m not a fan of making press releases on behalf of other companies however once in a while, a news item catches my interest.  So it is with the announcement of the Violin Memory Inc. 3200 series of all-memory storage arrays.  Why are these interesting?  Because I think they are moving and...
May 26th, 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: Is the Solid State Drive Hype Over?

Enterprise Computing: Is the Solid State Drive Hype Over?
Have a look at this news report from Barrons.com on their Tech Trader site.  STEC shares lost a whopping 36% as quoted in the article and in fact were down almost 39% for the day.  So have solid state drives lost their sparkle? Barrons also wrote the day before on the STEC earnings call.  The interesting...
November 5th, 2009 | Enterprise Storage, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Do We Need FAST v1, EMC?

So, here’s my rash statement from Twitter last night: “If FAST isn’t free, I don’t want it!  All it’s doing is automating process I could script/do manually”.  It’s a bold statement, I know, so is FAST really offering something better than what could be achieved...
October 18th, 2009 | Enterprise Storage, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – Part V

This is the final post in a series on Enterprise Data Migration Strategies.  Previous posts: Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – Part I Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – Part II Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies Part III Enterprise Computing: Data Migration...
July 22nd, 2009 | Enterprise Storage, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Oracle to Buy Sun Microsystems

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...
April 20th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More
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