JP Morgan Analysis: NetApp beats EMC in ease of implementation in Data Centers
By Tarry Singh at 26 May, 2010, 6:29 am
NetApp is becoming the lead storage vendor in virtualised environments because it offers a more seamless and cost-effective approach than EMC. That’s the view of Mark Moscowitz, a J P Morgan analyst, in a note published on May 25. He says there is a secular shift to mid-range storage which is benefitting NetApp more than [...]
Read More >>HDS aligns its unified computing strategy with Microsoft; takes on Cisco/EMC
By Tarry Singh at 20 April, 2010, 1:29 am
With Hyper-V as a bold statement in its partnership, HDS is making clear that it does not want to be left behind. HDS has now signalled it is entering the lists against the VCE coalition and its V-Blocks (VMware, Cisco and EMC), HP and its Matrix, IBM and Oracle with its app-to-storage integrated stack. Dell [...]
Read More >>Cisco, EMC to sell gear to data centers: They call it a “vBlock” (Ugh)
By Tarry Singh at 2 November, 2009, 1:18 am
First of all: They should have chosen some other name, this whole vThing has gone too far. Maybe they could have chosen Compute VDC/ Mobile VDC/ CloudPack or whatever. Secondly: It really is no big deal. Nothing new here since that 20% market which data centers are supposed to be the prime consumers and probably [...]
Read More >>EMC CEO Joe Tucci: A punishing sea of change is coming!
By Tarry Singh at 25 September, 2009, 12:13 pm
And he said it so very well actually. I fully agree with what Joe is up to. It is time NOW to start planning and going after major moves. Oracle’s play on Sun is a major step in the “all-in” bet something Larry Ellison has become so adept in. Joe plays hard ball as well [...]
Read More >>EMC snaps up FastScale Technology
By Tarry Singh at 31 August, 2009, 1:15 pm
EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) , the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced it has acquired FastScale Technology, Inc., a privately-held, Santa Clara, California-based provider of software platforms and solutions for next generation enterprise IT — adding a new dimension to the EMC Ionix portfolio to dramatically increase the performance and scalability of private cloud [...]
Read More >>Data Domain to EMC: No! No! No! No!
By Tarry Singh at 15 June, 2009, 10:31 am
Well that’s how El Reg is reporting. Data Domain has rejected EMC’s and offers four reasons to say no. The first one is that, if Data Domain talks to EMC or did not reaffirm its NetApp agreement, then NetApp could walk away leaving Data Domain bereft and at risk of EMC not completing its takeover [...]
Read More >>Data Domain accepts NetApps raised bid [again]; EMC won’t raise bid
By Tarry Singh at 4 June, 2009, 2:05 am
NetApp sources think this means EMC will not raise its bid and the implication is that this is going down to a decision by Data Domain shareholders between the two bidders, EMC or NetApp. The Data Domain board prefers that NetApp buy the company. It and NetApp have entered into a revised acquisition agreement based [...]
Read More >>EMC gate crashes NetApp’s party; Bids $1.8 Bn for Data Domain
By Tarry Singh at 2 June, 2009, 12:44 am
That funny picture on El Reg suggests that the guy standing against the glass is EMC, a possible outsider? Anyways EMC surely didn’t want to be left out. “Strategically, this combination will further enhance our ability to broaden EMC’s best-in-class storage portfolio for the benefit of EMC and Data Domain customers and this, in turn, [...]
Read More >>VMware continues to lose key executives
By Tarry Singh at 17 May, 2009, 1:16 am
Alessandro reporting more execs who jumped ship. Last time I spoke to Reza (at VMworld) he seemed pretty lukewarm ab out his stay at VMware. As you can also see in the comments Kate Hutchison too left. We did observe in our previous post how the new COO would be removing Kate (that was the [...]
Read More >>EMC’s dilemma: Why the private cloud may only offer short-term respite
By Tarry Singh at 15 May, 2009, 3:17 pm
This is a pretty nice write-up. A lot is happening in the industry, when we were thinking that HP/EDS deal could be killing for the industry, we had Oracle come in stealthily and stole Sun away under IBM’s nose. Now we have couple of firms, well actually Cisco only here, that might be offering the [...]
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