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VCE’s Converged Support
Convergence is about more than putting piece together, it is about looking for opportunities to do things in a better way with a complete solution. John Furrier of SiliconAngle recently interviewed Tony Kolish, SVP of EMC Worldwide Customer Support, and they discussed how support is critical to an environment that spans multiple technologies and multiple ...
Will VMware Help Mature the VDI Ecosystem?
Will VMware answer the call of the VDI Coalition? VMware knows about partnerships. One of the statistics that got repeated often at VMworld 2010 in San Francisco was that for every $1 that companies spend on VMware, they spend $15 with partners. This partnership isn’t limited to working with big companies; if you’ve ever attended ...
IBM System Networking and the New Alignment of the Networking Industry
IBM officially announced the formation of its System Networking group (it’s buried in this PR). I’m on the record saying that IBM’s acquisition of BNT is not to attack Cisco. IBM is a master at the practice of co-opetition, and has a stated commitment to maintain partnerships, unlike HP, which has openly declared war on ...
HP and Intel Help Open the FCoE Market
For years, I’ve heard people talk about the fact that Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a technology that only Cisco is pushing or that it is a push by a dying Fibre Channel (FC) industry to extend product lives for a few more years. First of all, FC is still doing well (recent earnings ...
To the Hybrid Clouds
How to Become an Expert in the IT Business by Geek and Poke (cc) You know that cloud computing is a hot topic when friends and family that have never seen a data center start asking what “cloud” is [thank you Microsoft for confusing them with the “To the Cloud” ads ads]. The delineation and ...
PosDev Award: Christopher Wells and Virtualization in Japan
As I wrote in a post after VMworld last year, it is the army of VCPs and VMUG volunteers around the globe that are helping to drive the adoption of virtualization technologies. Joe Onisick, the first recipient of Wikibon’s PosDev award, nominated the second winner: Christopher Wells. Christopher Wells’ Twitter handle is @WYGTYA, which comes ...
EMC and Big Data: What Does it Mean for the Data Center?
The big data era is upon us and virtually every storage announcement will be assessed in this context going forward. Traditionally, the emphasis on data has been about the difficulty of managing explosive growth. The industry in our view is undergoing a ‘bit flip’ where data is becoming a strategic asset. We’ve heard this story ...
EMC and Big Data: Their Strategy and Impact on Storage Users
EMC’s January 18, 2011, storage announcement—the first of this big data era—is one of its broadest ever. It includes over 40 new products and touches most of the company’s traditional platform lines, from Symmetrix at the mission critical high end to a new midrange architecture that further evolves EMC’s flagship offerings in the sweet-spot of ...
InfiniBand Market Consolidation: Mellanox Buys Voltaire
Today, Mellanox announced plans to buy Voltaire for $218M. This is not a surprising move – Voltaire was a customer of Mellanox InfiniBand silicon yet the two companies often were competing head-to-head in the switch market which was driving down the price of both of their businesses. I heard that OEM customers had been pushing ...
Commoditization of Ethernet Switches: How Value is Flowing into Silicon
Commoditization of IT, moving to more standardized components is a force that affects every product line across the industry. Looking at the details of any server or storage device will show the impact that Intel has had. Network switches have specialized chip designs that differ from processors, but face the same competitive pressures of creating ...