December 20, 2010 7:32 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
The multi-billion dollar acquisitions of 3PAR and Isilon this year made a lot of money for those vendors’...
December 15, 2010 6:24 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
ibm,
multi-level cell,
solid state storage,
stecIBM is bringing STEC multi-level cell (MLC) solid state drives into the enterprise, and the word from STEC is that others will follow soon.
SSD supplier STEC today said IBM is using its ZeusIOPS MLC flash...
December 13, 2010 9:30 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
Backing up to the cloud started mainly as an option for smaller companies, but enterprise backup vendors see it moving up into the enterprise.
December 13, 2010 1:02 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
compellent,
dell,
san arrayDell made it official today. It is buying Compellent for $820 million, and expects the deal to close early next year.
Dell and Compellent said last Thursday that they were in advanced...
December 9, 2010 3:15 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
dell; compellent; SAN arrayDell today said it is serious about buying Compellent Technologies for $876 million. I guess it’s really serious if the companies already have a price.
Any storage acquisition under $2 billion seems like a steal these days and Dell has clearly been shopping for another platform to go...
December 7, 2010 6:54 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
solid state drives; fusion-ioWhile the enterprise solid state drive (SSD) is still growing slowly and no method of using SSDs has moved to the forefront, Fusion-io CEO David Flynn said his company’s Flash-based PCIe cards are making a...
December 3, 2010 5:41 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
storage vendors; nas; iscsiThe latest external storage system revenue numbers are in from IDC and Gartner, showing that trends we saw in the first half of 2010 continued into last quarter.
Those include the rise of Ethernet in networked storage at the expense of Fibre Channel, and market share gains by NetApp and EMC at...
December 2, 2010 8:27 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
object storageWhile storage vendors are paying a lot of attention to object storage these days, a new report from Forrester Research points to limitations that make the technology the wrong choice for many...
