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Tegile, hybrid flash and the laws of the storage market

It seems like hybrid flash/spinning disk array startups are sprouting up all over the place lately. There are the likes of Tintri, NexGen and Nutanix, and this week I spoke to another --

The storage vendor top five(s)

Gartner recently released research showing the volumes (in US dollars) of storage arrays shipped by the top vendors.

It’s useful to look at just to know who the Big Five are, for...

SNW Europe: Centripetal/centrifugal forces at work

It’s an axiom of capitalism that the customer should be free to choose what they buy. But it’s not always a right that’s freely given, and businesses prefer to lock you in if they can.

In the consumer IT world Microsoft was forced, for example,...