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NetApp’s Engenio Acquisition: A $2B Windfall for Investors
When NetApp bought LSI’s Engenio division, many questioned the merits of the move. After all, NetApp is the poster child for unified storage and has built a multi-billion dollar business around WAFL, the Write Anywhere File Layout. NetApp’s entire storage portfolio revolves around WAFL and ONTAP, its core operating system and this has allowed the company to ...
Customer Care in the Era of Big Data
How may I, in all servitude, be of assistance? A good friend of mine shared this story with me recently. It has major relevance to the big data trend that we’ve been covering and in particular the concept that we’re moving from e-Business to a world of “me-Business.” Here’s my friend’s story, written in the ...
The Hunt for Cloud Storage – Who’s Got Game?
Amazon AWS is a Slam Dunk There’s a battle going on between CEOs and their IT organizations. The CEO is saying “hey – I go home on the weekends, my kids are on Facebook storing pictures and videos for free, Gmail is always on, this new Web stuff is cheap and simple, I can get ...
Ten “Big Data” Realities and What They Mean to You
There’s been plenty of talk about big data lately and it’s finally spilling into the world of infrastructure. I’m not surprised. But there’s a lot of confusion and many frustrating misconceptions. I understand. It’s a confusing topic – especially to us infrastructure people. We like to simplify things. Big data = big iron, big RDBMS, ...
Cloud, Big Data and Cash: Why EMC is Still Undervalued
Is EMC the Next Big IT Whale? EMC is a thirty year old company that essentially created the storage systems business as we know it today. The company began with humble roots selling memory for minicomputers. Through many failures, perseverance, vision and a take-no-prisoners culture, the company evolved into a storage industry powerhouse in the ...
The Truth About Enterprise Cloud Adoption
You’re Damn Right I Cloudwashed! In early 2009, members of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department from the University of California at Berkeley wrote a paper entitled “Above the Clouds, A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing.“ In that paper, the authors made the following assertion: Cloud Computing refers to both the applications delivered as ...
Little Data, Big Data, Flash and Cloud Tiering: Predictions 2011
2009 was my first-ever attempt at doing a cliché year end predictions post. So in keeping with that tradition I guess I should start by evaluating last year’s folly. #1 – Frank Slootman gets himself fired. The real point of this tongue-in-cheek call was that I didn’t think Frank and his Data Domain team (e.g. ...
Does FalconStor’s Big Cloud Win With HP Mark a New Growth Chapter?
FalconStor Software announced that its Network storage Server (NSS) is being bundled as part of HP’s Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery service offering. The service is aimed at mid-sized customers that are unhappy with tape-based recovery and can’t afford high end replication solutions from the likes of EMC, Hitachi, IBM and NetApp. The key to ...
The Hitachi Content Cloud: Unified Portable Data at Scale
At the Hitachi Information Forum late last month I expected to see Hitachi announce a big fast box for OLTP applications. It did—the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform – VSP. But beyond all the product messaging that you’d expect from Hitachi, there were three broad messages that were new: 3D Scaling – Scale up, scale deep ...
Convergence 2011: HP and QLogic at the Eye of the Cloud Computing Storm
Virtualization and cloud computing are changing the velocity, agility and economics of the data center. However virtualization, combined with the explosion of data is placing unprecedented demands on I/O bandwidth and creating constraints for users. Despite conventional wisdom, converging storage, network and server infrastructure will not lead to IT budget cuts. Rather it will enable ...