August 29, 2008 11:36 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Around the water cooler,
Strategic storage vendors
IBM. What to make of them these days when it comes to storage?
It's a question I've heard asked a lot this week in my conversations with industry watchers and in my blog reading. Much of it came in the...
August 18, 2008 1:48 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
NAS,
Storage and server virtualization,
Storage managed service providers,
Strategic storage vendorsEMC blogger Storagezilla posted an interesting Flash animated video this morning about Maui, titled CloudFellas, in a post that has since been whacked. In the original post, 'zilla alluded to 'getting too far out in front of the boss', so maybe that's what happened (the post has been deleted...
August 18, 2008 9:28 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Strategic storage vendorsRackable Systems continues to adjust its business in the wake of its announcement last week that it plans to divest the clustered NAS business it acquired with Terrascale two years...
August 14, 2008 10:07 AM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
Storage and server virtualization,
Strategic storage vendorsNetApp has a strong working relationship with VMware, despite counting VMware's parent EMC as its storage archrival. So NetApp CEO Dan Warmenhoven didn't know what to make of the...
August 5, 2008 1:36 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Strategic storage vendorsFormer Brocade outside counsel Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has agreed to pay Brocade $9.5 million to settle a lawsuit the company is bringing against 11 of its former board members and executives in an attempt to recoup what it says are $830 million in costs relating to options backdating...
July 31, 2008 3:06 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Strategic storage vendorsAccording to Symantec's earnings call last night, updates to NetBackup announced at Symantec Vision in June helped keep its storage business strong this quarter. Storage and services revenue increased 20% year over year to $616 million, which COO Enrique Salem attributed in part to new NetBackup...
July 30, 2008 1:29 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Around the water cooler,
Strategic storage vendorsOh, snap.
NetApp has struck back in the ongoing catfight with EMC - this time in the form of a T-shirt.
July 30, 2008 12:26 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Strategic storage vendorsIn an economic downturn, not everybody makes it through in one piece. Though the storage market has fared better than many (apparently the list of things in life you can count on has been expanded to three: death, taxes and data growth), it isn't without its casualties. Ciprico and Agami are the...
July 30, 2008 11:25 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
SAN,
Strategic storage vendorsThe turnover that often occurs when a large company buys a smaller one has begun at Dell/EqualLogic, about seven months after Dell closed its $1.4 billion acquistion of the iSCSI SAN vendor. The most visible of these departures was delivered via vlog by
