Storage
Dell buys 3PAR for $1.15Bn
By Tarry Singh at 16 August, 2010, 6:17 am
Dell is changing the enterprise storage array supplier landscape by buying 3PAR for $1.15bn, adding an enterprise block storage array to its storage product roster and complementing the iSCSI EqualLogic storage arrays it bought in 2007. Dell paid $1.4bn for EqualLogic, and it’s turned out to be an astute and successful purchase. 3PAR makes InServe [...]
Read More >>Star Cloud Storage start-up Nasuni launches Dashboard with billing/consumption reporting
By Tarry Singh at 26 May, 2010, 6:41 am
This is very important, especially for incumbent ISVs and SIs, that could include AWS and other Indian players who want to go after the monolithic SIs with the breakthrough billing/reporting tooling. I am personally watching Nasuni for its other economical features that could be very effective for many customers/buyers. Check out their portal which gives [...]
Read More >>3PAR ANNOUNCES EXPANSION OF 3PAR CLOUD-AGILE PROGRAM
By Tarry Singh at 19 January, 2010, 8:21 am
Agile Program to accommodate increased interest from hosting service providers experiencing substantial growth in the demand for cloud-based services. Originally launched in July of 2009, the 3PAR Cloud-Agile Program includes members that have built or are building agile and efficient cloud service delivery infrastructures using 3PAR InServ® Storage Servers. Joining the program at the newly [...]
Read More >>Apple’s App Store Infographic story : How developers are getting super rich!
By Tarry Singh at 12 January, 2010, 11:40 am
Infographic works a lot better for visually enslaved folks like me, how about you? Nice piece of work those guys at Column Five Media do, maybe I gotta check it out later.
Read More >>Oracle rumored to snap up Citrix under IBM’s nose; VMware, are you listening?
By Tarry Singh at 6 January, 2010, 7:10 am
This would give Oracle stake in the desktop market dramatically. Oracle wants to be the IBM and this would beat IBM to its game and not to mention that VMware and other players will be stunned as Oracle huge and angry sales machine will go after the customers and the desktop market like never before. [...]
Read More >>Storage vendors beware: Meet the biggest DRAM Flash storage on the planet!
By Tarry Singh at 16 November, 2009, 2:29 pm
The revolution has started and spinning disks will die. As large storage vendors will clamor for space and try to retain the existing customers, these customers would have kicked every spinning disk out of the data center. As Cloud comes along, we’ll have all those flash and stuff going into the large data centers. Which [...]
Read More >>CapGemini about to lose a €230 Million contract; Unstable Data Center the main reason!
By Tarry Singh at 16 November, 2009, 7:34 am
Unstable Data Center was the main cause for this possible reversal of the large contract. Before anyone jumps to conclusion I must say this at the defense of all large outsourcing parties that these are truly difficult times. We really need to hire quality staff very soon. Large outsourcing firms have double challenges when they [...]
Read More >>Google’s Director of Enterprise Solutions Interviewed; Cloud Computing plans unveiled
By Tarry Singh at 12 November, 2009, 3:24 pm
Interview is kind of corporate like and boring and thus interesting to the black/white corporate guys Q: Does Google have a name for its cloud computing platform? Glotzbach: Where we really started in terms of a commercialized offering, in what I would call “cloud computing,” is our product suite that we refer to as Google [...]
Read More >>Amazon’s Cloud to rain on Asian enterprises by Q1 2010
By Tarry Singh at 12 November, 2009, 2:18 pm
Amazon, Google and Apple obviously are poised to be on our upcoming market report slated to be published on 4th Jan, 2010. The greatest thing these all companies have is speed. They can get to any part of the world , including their customers, at a much faster pace than anyone else. It is this [...]
Read More >>Hey Cisco! HP just bought 3Com for $2.7 Bn cash!
By Tarry Singh at 12 November, 2009, 2:09 am
My keynote last night at a University — where we covered enterpreneurship, Cloud Computing and taking the charge in your own hands — where couple of biggies from Media and Entertainment industry were there, there were many interesting insights shared by reknowned experts and it was real fun. Cisco came also as a company to [...]
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