Dave Vellante
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
VMware: The New IT Economy – Oracle: The Old Telco Model
I was flying back from San Francisco last week… I feel like I spent a month in California—not that I’m complaining—I’m very fortunate to be part of what’s happening in this industry and the innovations that we’re building around live TV. The …
Larry Ellison Keynote at OpenWorld Throws Competitors and Partners Under the Bus
Tech Boss rips Salesforce.com, Dell, Red Hat, IBM, Netezza, Teradata, EMC and NetApp in his keynote remarks. Quick…what’s worse – being an Oracle competitor or an Oracle partner? Judging from Larry Ellison’s keynote tonight at Oracle OpenWorld 2010 there really isn’t much …
Oracle Stacks the Deck with Integrated Hardware and Software: Convenience, Lock-in and Higher Prices
Each year, Oracle takes over San Francisco for a week and showcases its enormity to the world. At 40,000+ attendees, this year’s OpenWorld is bigger than ever and includes the JavaOne developer conference. Indeed, Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems last year has …
Ellison Keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2010: Cloud Computing, Virtualization and Fusion
If the audience at Oracle OpenWorld 2010 was hoping for fireworks between HP and Oracle they were sadly disappointed. As expected, on Sunday afternoon, HP’s Ann Livermore played true to her always professional and respectful form. Larry Ellison, not surprisingly, avoided any …
Hot Cloud Companies: Could NetApp be Undervalued?
NetApp’s market cap closed up over $17B today. That’s an increase of 21.4% in 30 days. Could NetApp possibly be undervalued? In the storage battles, NetApp is the young kid on the block that won’t back down to the big bully– uh …
Storage M&A: IBM Completes Storwize Acquisition – HP Dell and 3PAR Next
I’m at VMworld and the announcement that Storwize is now an IBM company crossed my desk yesterday. I spent about 2 hours with Ed Walsh a few weeks ago reviewing his philosophy, approach and getting some details about Storwize and the history …