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Samsung Launches GalaxyTab. First Major Comptitor to the iPad?

Sarwat Jabeen — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:16:49 +0000

Big news comes from Samsung today at the IFA Electronics Consumer Show at Berlin. It is the launch of Samsung's first tablet; the Galaxy Tab. Its portability is the main value proposition here. With a battery life of 8 hours and handy, small sized 7-inch touchscreen, Galaxy Tab, is promoted as the tablet to use on the go.

The other main features include phone call ability, GPS system, internet connectivity, e-book reader, support for various movie formats, a 1.3 megapixel front camera and a 3 megapixel back camera with LED Lamp. Other specifications are a 1GHz Cortex A8 processor, 16 GB internal memory and 32 GB extend-able MicroSD storage, Galaxy Tab is sure to make some noise in the tablet market.

This product is powered by the latest Android OS offering (Froyo 2.2), and will receive an update for Android GingerBread later this year. This means you can use any killer app off the Android Market--another breakthrough feature for Android-powered tablets. The screen resolution difference from smart phones can cause compatibility issues for some applications, which would be resolved soon.

The price is yet to be disclosed but most probably it would sell with monthly plans and subsidies through operators. As ComputerWorld reports,

Users can connect to the Internet using HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) at up to 7.2Mbit/sec (download) or 5.76Mbit/sec (upload), or at even higher speeds over 802.11n Wi-Fi networks.

When not surfing the Web, users can watch movies in a number of different formats, including DivX, Xvid, WMV and MPEG-4.The fact that the Tab is based on Android version 2.2 means it also has Adobe Flash 10.1. Other software onboard includes Samsung's TouchWiz 3.0 addition to the Android user interface and Social Hub, an application that collects messages from different social networks in one place. Samsung developed TouchWiz and Social Hub for its smartphones.

The Tab also will come with Hubs for accessing e-books, magazines, newspapers, music and movies. The latter will only be available in the U.S. Samsung will install Layar, an augmented reality application, and Swype, which allows users to input text on a touchscreen by gliding their finger from one letter to another on a virtual keyboard, as well. For users who don't like virtual keyboards, Samsung will also offer a hardware keyboard as an accessory.

This launch comes right after yesterday's announcements from Apple, with a redesigned lineup and other new product offerings, though none were related directly to its iPad tablet. So, there is definitely tough competition awaiting Galaxy Tab. The advantage over other products is mainly the phone capability. The question then arises; how many people would be really willing to replace their phone with a tablet that can also make calls? I think, not many.

Only time will tell how GalaxyTab holds up to the cutthroat competition, but Samsung seems anxious for the challenge. The electronics manufacturer has a good amount of experience working with the Android platform, and its Galaxy S smart phone has been among the top-sellers in the market.

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Orrymain says:
September 2, 2010 5:51 pm
I like Samsung and I have been very satisfied with all of the products that I have purchased from them. This addition to the tablet world loks like something I might try myself. The Hubs part is ultra appealing, in fact. I think it will be a success.
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iTunes Ping Not Playing Well with Facebook

Kit Dotson — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:54:49 +0000

As previously reported by SiliconAngle, Apple has recently released Ping, a social networking enhancement along with iTunes 10. And it looks like it’s already run into its first apparent snag, according to an article at Engadget,

…the company was making a last-second change to its new Ping social-network-for-music: the removal of Facebook Connect for finding friends. Seriously -- although an option to find friends via Facebook was conspicuously present during Steve's keynote demos, it's not there anymore. Oddly, the option was there at the very beginning -- several Engadget staffers definitely saw a Facebook button when they signed up for Ping last night, and there's a whole thread on Apple's support site of people who also saw it and are now wondering where it's gone.

Unconfirmed reports seem to suggest that this isn’t a deliberate snub by Apple of Facebook—as they seem quite held to actually using Facebook with Ping—but instead some sort of technological snafu.

Further rumors seem to angle currently towards a problem with Facebook, not Apple’s Ping, that’s causing the issue. The resulting errors, generated on Facebook’s site, appear to have been more than enough for Apple to yank the support for the time being while the bug is being repaired.

Right now, Ping’s friend finder feature has left much to be desired at the hands of many reviewers; however, the revelation that the Connect feature is currently broken could explain a lot of the frustration. Perhaps once that’s working properly again, reviewers will warm up to this new music-social contribution.

We’ll keep everyone updated if we see Facebook Connect reappear on Ping.

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Orrymain says:
September 2, 2010 5:53 pm
Well, all of our technology has snags at some point. I wouldn't worry about it too much as I doubt it is a snub of any sort. It is most likely a bug and soon enough, it will be fixed and Facebook users will be happy once again.
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Heineken Solves its Migration, Data Management Issues, Supports Virtualization with Compellent

Bert Latamore — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:13:26 +0000

With 140 breweries in more than 70 countries creating 200 million hector liters of beer and cider a year, including a large export business to the United States from the three breweries of its base in Holland, Heineken is one of the largest, worldwide brewery operations in the world. Its IT environment is demanding. It requires a 24/7 IT operation because brewing is a 24/7 operation. Shutting down a packaging line, for instance, costs the company 12,000€ an hour.

Heineken had been running on Hewlett-Packard blade servers and storage with 12 server rooms it wanted to combine into a single data center. It had virtualized its test environment with VMware but was constrained in its plans to upgrade to Windows Server 2008 and to the then latest VMware to support virtualizing its production environments.

As a result, it migrated from HP storage to Compellent, both to gain support for all operating systems and to better support its virtualization. Interviewed on SiliconAngle.TV from VMworld2010 in San Francisco, Heineken’s Lucean deKoenig said the company picked Compellent specifically because it supported all operating systems and was designed to work with VMware to create a fully virtualized server and storage architecture. They also needed a high performance solution.

“We were told that the conversion would go flawlessly, and that is what happened,” Heineken’s Mike Grovers said. the entire migration took six weeks, compared to an average of six months to migrate a single array as reported by users to analyst firm Wikibon.org.

Under the HP system, Heineken had no direct access to any information on how its data was used internally. The Compellent system, in contrast, provided precise information. Heineken was able to recover 30%-40% of its disk space immediately because of Compellent’s thin provisioning architecture and decreased the number of physical disks it needed by 60% overall, cutting both power and cooling consumption. Heineken has a three-tier architecture with solid-state storage for its highest demand data. Compellent’s reporting and fluid data tiering sytem allow it to optimize use of that expensive resource. Now, Grovers said, the company is planning to expand its lower-cost SATA disk tier rather than growing the top tier.

Since then Heineken’s virtualization plan has proceeded smoothly, and it now has its production environment 61% virtualized, with a target of reaching 90% in 2012. Besides increasing utilization and thereby decreasing the number of boxes on the floor, the virtualized architecture has increased reliability and facilitated data backup and recovery by making it easy to copy data between locations. Overall, the Compellent/VMware combination has saved the company significant money while allowing it to upgrade it infrastructure and improve service.

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Orrymain says:
September 2, 2010 5:55 pm
I must admit that I never thought I'd come to this website and be reading about Heineken beer, but here I am. Actually, the story makes me wonder more about HP. Is this company on a downard spiral?
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FCC Needs More Data Before they Regulate Net Neturality

Kristen Nicole — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:40:24 +0000

The debate around the FCC’s position in regulating net neutrality has been re-addressed, as the organization is requesting more information on whether or not regulations should even apply. This has been a topic of debate for quite some time, with the FCC’s position coming into question as Google and Verizon bring up the legal issues around net neutrality.

From The New York Times,

The agency is also asking for comments about one of the most hotly debated Internet regulatory issues: special services that offer to prioritize certain digital traffic for a fee.

Those two issues were at the center of a recent proposal by Verizon and Google that generated widespread debate in the telecommunications and Internet communities.

Net neutrality has been gaining more mainstream awareness, as consumer interests are increasingly at stake. Glenn Manishin, legal expert SiliconANGLE contributor who does not represent Google, Verizon or any party to the FCC proceeding, brings up some important points around the true focal point of the legalities of net neutrality, saying

“The application of so-called Net Neutrality rules to wireless Internet access is the most technically and legally complex issue in this politically charged debate. The FCC's decision to ask for further input is an appropriately cautious approach in light of the reversal of it's earlier Comcast order on appeal.

“The public interest community is understandably frustrated, but their position largely ignores the shaky, at best, jurisdictional basis for their proposals, which are likely to be stayed or reversed by the courts if adopted without a careful legal analysis the Commission currently lacks and they unfortunately have not supplied.”

We’ve covered several angles on the topic as well, from the corporate level to analysis of its effects on the mobile device industry. See here.

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Orrymain says:
September 2, 2010 5:56 pm
Frankly, it is very confusing to me and I am not sure I comprehend all of the ins and outs of this complex issue. I do think the government needs to be more involved in what happens online and with mobile processes.
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Twitter for iPad Introduces Us to Panes

Kit Dotson — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:40:10 +0000

While up until this point Twitter has been hands-off with the iPad they have decided to build a first-party app: Twitter for iPad. And it looks like it has all the trappings to become the Twitter iPad killer app. From the hands-on article at PCMag,

The free Twitter for iPad app expands the functionality of previous iPhone Twitter clients by introducing "Panes," or fly-out panels that offer a spacious reading experience without blocking your feed.When you tap a tweet, a separate panel slides in from the right side of the screen, which displays a user's most recent update, bio, Web site link, number of followers, the number of people that person follows, and other typical Twitter information.

The app also lists a handful of similar Twitter users who might be worth following. Although Panes take up a sizable portion of on-screen real estate, it's still quite easy to follow the main Twitter feed.

An excellent part of the “Panes” paradigm here also is that they will be media rich, embedding audio, video, and enabling easy conversation navigation.

Aside from the interesting “Panes” concept, Twitter for iPad also follows the gestures paradigm. This allows users to produce finger/mouse gestures across the iPad surface to create actions within the Twitter for iPad interface. Two fingers and down scrolls to other messages in the same conversation and two fingers together spreading apart opens a user bio.

While this may make third-party developers feel a little bit left out (by making Tweetdeck and others look like chumps), if they haven’t been attempting to take advantage of these systems in the iPad, these app developers have definitely fallen behind. Needless to say, hopefully it will spur the third-party app producers to write their own killers.

For now, it looks like Twitter for iPad will carry the day. See Twitter’s own blog post on their product for more information.

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Orrymain says:
September 2, 2010 5:49 pm
These pnes are something that are very appearling. I like the freedom mentioned about not blocking the feed. I can't say I am really a fan of social networks but it is our reality so this is just another evolution for the tweeters.
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New-Generation Development Framework Changing the Game for Developer says VMware CTO Steve Harrod

Bert Latamore — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:28:36 +0000

New-generation development frameworks like VMforce (http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmforce.html), are changing the focus of software development and opening new opportunities for developers, says VMware CTO Steve Harrod. Interviewed on SiliconAngle.TV from VMworld2010 immediately after the announcement of VMforce, the new third-generation development platform being co-developed by VMware and salesforce.com, he said, “Developers want to write apps that reach the largest audience.” But this is becoming a challenge as we move from a Microsoft Windows dominated end-user environment to a multi-platform world with Apple, Android, Windows 7, and the Palm WebOS (now owned by Hewlett-Packard), all playing into an increasingly mobile end-user environment.

“We see all these demands being put on IT now,” he told interviewers David Vellante, co-founder of the Wikibon.org (www.wikibon.org) online consultancy, and John Furrier, president of SiliconAngle.com (www.siliconangle.com). “They are being pushed by users who expect the same great new user experience they get from the iPad and their smartphones when they come into the office, but they can’t use the same apps or, often, the same devices.”
These new frameworks change the focus for developers by automating the creation of low-level system calls and similar details. Built on the Java Virtual Engine, VMforce allows developers to focus on higher level issues such as the user interface, leave the details to the framework, and create more platform-independent applications.

“With VMforce a developer can create enterprise quality applications that, for instance, can support single sign-on, much more easily ,” he said. “The result is a developer can write an application for the public cloud but also make it something enterprises will buy.”
This is the reason VMware purchased SpringSource, which is the basis of VMforce, a year ago. “And as Paul said this morning, developers are voting with their feet and moving to this framework.”

Not only does VMforce make developers more effective, it also “allows us to grab all this great intelligence that’s in these new frameworks and filter it down to the virtual platform. It knows about data access, it knows about how you scale up these apps. It’s all around performance and how you configure and provision the apps.” For instance, the framework can see how many Web pages the app is serving per second and add resources through “the magic of the virtualization layer” to increase performance when that rate hits a predetermined threshold. The framework provides information on how the app is working in the virtualized environment and can feed that data to the Vsphere layer to provide monitoring and control. “It allows you to essentially job schedule these apps.”

Another announcement from the keynote was what he described as an “interesting set of partnerships led by Verizon to offer VMware-compatible services on their production clouds. “This means that the same apps, management, and security -- exactly what is running in the data center” -- will be available to mobile device users outside the physical enterprise. “This is a major step toward what we think people are moving toward -- a hybrid public/private cloud environment.”
The VDI announcement plays directly into this, creating the potential for users to access their virtual work desktops and key applications on mobile devices over the Internet or internal intranet, giving IT an effective answer to those user demands for more mobile applications that work on their new devices. And, he says, “It is just a cool way to develop apps.”

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Not Exactly The Onion: DLNA Responds to Apple TV

Mike Coop — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:27:58 +0000

Moments after Steve Jobs announced the new Apple TV yesterday, I sent out a status update that said, "Time to pre-order the new Apple TV. DLNA needs to worry, right freakin' now. And I'm a HUGE DLNA fan."

I made it nearly an entire minute before my phone rang; that call was shortly interrupted by another, followed by a slew of e-mails, tweets, and Facebook comments.

Pretty much everyone wanted to know, what the heck did I mean? The more I thought about it, the more I decided that the best response DLNA could make is in the form of a press release. So, here we go--the release *I* might write if I were in a position to do so:

DLNA Welcomes Apple to the Living Room, Congratulates Apple on Decision to Enable Content Enjoyment in a Social Setting

Portland, OR -- September 2, 2010 -- The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) today welcomes the Apple ecosystem to the digital living room. By the end of September 2010, Apple users will be able to enjoy their photos, video, and music in a social setting, on the ideal display for social interaction--the television, rather than the small screen setting of iPhones, iPads, and iPods.

Steve, we know you've been busy, but what took you so long?

Since its founding in 2003, more than 7,500 products have been DLNA Certified®, giving consumers the interoperability they need within a full range of products including digital cameras, PCs and laptops, printers and televisions. Such a wide range of products means that by 2012, more than a billion DLNA devices will have shipped, according to ABI Research. Apple's recognition that consumers enjoy content in a twelve foot setting is an important milestone for our industry. The current two-foot user interface where Apple users typically consume content is ideal for touch screen devices, particularly when sharing photos of grandchildren with fellow airplane travelers, blaring music at inappropriate volume on trains, and nodding one's head at a visual voice mail message.

However, the explosion in social networking enabled by high-powered mobile platforms such as the iPhone has created the dichotomy that in a world of oversharing, the actual consumption of content has never been more solitary. When silver halide still played a part in preserving memories, doing so meant to capture, to share, and to enjoy--together. Unfortunately, as first-world economies have morphed into always-on, all-digital lifestyles, the actual act of enjoying shared memories in a social environment has gone the way of Jarts and the Oldsmobile.

Today, content is most often consumed by individuals on mobile devices. DLNA members Nokia, Samsung, LG, Motorola and Sony Ericsson shipped a combined 1.21 billion mobile phones worldwide in 2009, so we understand that mobile is a huge market for capture and consumption. But, one of the big challenges the entire consumer electronics industry continues to face is how to keep people truly connected in an ever-more-connected world, a world where a family of five can sit around a dinner table and avoid face-to-face conversation, courtesy of the very devices that our members ship in tremendous volumes.

We're certainly not against shared virtual enjoyment of content. Facebook has revolutionized the lives of technology users in a manner not seen since Google, and before that, well, Apple. But, there's more to life than photos that spend their lives locked up in a Facebook account, even if tens of millions of the cameras taking those photos are produced by our members. When we started DLNA in 2003, we believed that the right way to enable consumers to enjoy their content was in a connected environment; that's even more true today. Technologies like high-speed wireless, network-attached storage, and high-resolution HD video cameras one can shove in a pocket largely didn't exist seven years ago; if they did, they were the exclusive domain of the earliest of early adopters, at price points out of reach for all but the ultra-affluent, and at a technology integration cost only a geek could love.

We set out to change that, to get ahead of the technology curve, to standardize in a multi-vendor environment all the things that made this type of content sharing a five- or six-figure investment. In 2003, a number of us got together and chose to think different. What that's meant over the last seven years is a lot of heavy lifting, an enormous amount of time and investment, to ensure that consumers are able to connect and enjoy their content in a multi-vendor environment, one where content can be captured, stored, shipped, and consumed. Consumers buying DLNA Certified® devices can be confident they're purchasing solutions that work together and can be networked, regardless of manufacturer. That's why more than 200 companies have joined DLNA, and continue to collaborate to ensure that our products will work together to deliver content sharing which our users can enjoy.

That type of shared, truly shared, content enjoyment was challenging for Apple users until yesterday's announcement. As Apple mentioned, Apple TV has been little more than a hobby since its introduction in 2006. The new Apple TV offers a compelling value proposition, one which we're confident will motivate the entire industry to develop and deliver products which interoperate even better, at even lower cost, delivering even more value. Ultimately, in doing so, we all stand to benefit, particularly as we get people back in front of the big screen, together. Maybe, just maybe, the new Apple TV will promote a few more families to gather around the television to enjoy a shared content experience together, to set aside their iPhones, iPods, and iPads for a few minutes or a few hours. Whether viewing a high budget movie from a major studio delivered over a high-speed Internet link, or simply enjoying family photos served off of a personal computer in the home, we think there's real benefit for those families and friends gathering to connect and enjoy; that's the motivation for all of us to keep at it, to keep delivering products our customers want, at a range of price points, in a truly multi-vendor environment.

We've learned a lot about the art and science of content sharing over the last seven years. One of the most important things we've learned is that this race is a marathon, not a sprint. We'd like to take this opportunity to welcome Apple to the race.

See you on the couch

I'll clarify a few more of my thoughts over the coming days, and try to answer a number of questions that've already come in from some of you. The point is, Apple's entry to the market is a huge challenge to DLNA, a challenge to move beyond the vernacular of DMPs, DMCs, and DMRs, to deliver a clearer message to the average consumer. DLNA's value proposition has always been solid; the challenge has been, how to get an alliance of more than 200 members to agree on a single message, one which resonates with the average consumer. Apple's entry into this market now gives them an end-to-end solution that looks suspiciously like a DLNA architecture--iTunes as the digital media server (DMS); the new Apple TV as the digital media player (DMP); and the iPhone, iPod, and iPad as digital media renderers (DMRs) or digital media controllers (DMCs).

DLNA's always had the architecture right; now it's time to get the message right. Ironically, Apple's announcement may've been the best possible kick in the pants for DLNA and its members. Personally, I have a foot in both camps; I ordered the new Apple TV today, which will be the DMP in an all-Mac content flow (Mac Mini as DMS, iPad as DMC/DMR, Apple TV as DMP). But, I also firmly believe in DLNA; today I picked up the Samsung Epic 4G, which serves as a DLNA DMC/DMR, to go with my Promise DLNA NAS (DMS). I think I have a DLNA DMP floating around here somewhere, but that'll have to wait.

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Cisco Extends Smart-Metering with Arch Rock Acquisition Announcement

Kit Dotson — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:04:44 +0000

Today, Cisco announced their intent to acquire San Francisco based Arch Rock. With this acquisition, Cisco will be able to extend their reach into smart-metering systems that buttress smart-grid applications. Smart-grid appliances are capable of communicating with power distribution centers in order to regulate their power intake, save money, and reduce waste electricity.

From Cisco's statement:

"Arch Rock's wireless mesh technology enhances Cisco's IP-based, end-to-end smart-grid offerings," said Laura Ipsen, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Smart Grid business unit. "This acquisition further positions Cisco as a strategic partner to utilities working to better manage power supply and demand, improve the security and reliability of energy delivery, and optimize operational costs."

Arch Rock's technology is designed to enable utilities to connect smart meters and other distributed intelligent devices over a scalable, highly secure, multi-way wireless mesh network. The acquisition complements the recently announced strategic alliance between Itron and Cisco to develop solutions that enhance smart-metering technology.

The wireless mesh will mean that appliances will be able to communicate with each other and power distribution centers to better regulate electrical flow. Having a secure system to do this with will mean also that not only will customers get what they pay for, but they can be comfortable that they’ll only have to pay for what they get. No worries about third parties tapping into or messing with their communications without permission.

While this technology is still being developed for urban centers, it is more likely aimed at business and enterprise infrastructure—for example, a data center would benefit greatly from the ability for various appliances like server racks, A/C units, and the like to communicate their power draw needs to the distribution point.

For more information on Arch Rock see their website.

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HP Found the Buy-It-Now Button on 3PAR Auction [HP FTW!]

Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:53:01 +0000

No sooner had we posted this morning on the offer / counter-offer bidding war between Dell and HP for the ownership of 3PAR that the Financial Times began reporting that the war was over, and HP walked away the winner.

Hewlett-Packard appeared to have won the bidding battle for data storage technology company 3Par on Thursday, after Dell said it would not raise its offer and was ending talks.

I spoke with John Furrier briefly before he went on the air this morning at VMworld on #theCube, and he took great joy in pointing out that he was on record predicting the outcome of the auction.

“HP wins big here, mainly because 3PAR’s technology looks is set to become an essential piece of HP’s thin provisioning segment,” said John. “The value for HP, despite the purchase price, is clear.”

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Dell Tries to Snipe 3PAR, and HP Hunts for the Buy-It-Now Button [$2.4 Billion]

Kristen Nicole — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:09:04 +0000

It’s been eighteen days since the bidding war over 3Par began, and we’re wondering if there’s even an end in sight. 3Par released a statement this morning saying that HP raised its bid again, to $33 per share. That’s an increase from its previously announced offer of $30 per share.

This “Superior Proposal” aims to woo 3Par as far away from Dell’s initial acquisition offering as it can, with the terms of agreement allowing the server company to entertain other offers. That’s exactly what 3Par has been doing, stretching this bidding war out for nearly three weeks.

Back in August, John Furrier predicted 3PAR bidding would exceed $2 Billion, and predicted back in May that storage would be the next hot market to watch for mergers and acquisition.

Yesterday on TheCUBE, Wikibon.org’s Dave Vellante (SiliconANGLE contributor and lead analyst for Wikibon) predicted “The ping pong match is not over; someone is going to blink but I don’t think it’s going to be Dell today. I think they’ll match HP’s offer and my prediction is that HP will counter – this thing is going higher.”

Vellante commented on the matter:

“HP has an enormous legacy business in its aging EVA product line and it resells high end technology from Hitachi - 3PAR would fit HP perfectly. Dell on the other hand has a mandate to transform from a reseller of technology to an enterprise IT powerhouse. 3PAR fills a hole in the high end of its product line by giving it critical IP that allows Dell to lessen its reliance on EMC which accounts for about half of Dell’s storage business. I’ll say this – this deal makes IBM’s $340M acquisition of XIV look like a total bargain. ”

The bidding war only emphasizes HP’s and Dell’s need for an acquisition of this nature, as they seek to expand their own offerings. The demand swelling around 3Par will only increase interest for the next acquisition targets in the industry as well. In the meantime, 3Par faces a patent infringement lawsuit, along with six other data storage companies.

John also spoke directly yesterday on #theCube with Vellante and our News Desk Editor Kristen Nicole. On the show and only hours to go before the deadline, Vellante said that “…the ping pong match is not over; someone is going to blink but I don’t think it’s going to be Dell today. I think they’ll match HP’s offer and my prediction is that HP will counter – this thing is going higher.”

This will undoubtedly come up on #theCube’s live coverage from #VMworld’s final day today, so stay tuned for that and our ongoing coverage on the 3PAR bidding war.

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