FAST but late
EMC officially announced FAST (Fully automated Tiered Storage) for their Symmetrix arrays nearly one year ago but you can find first pre-announcements dated nearly two years ago! Yesterday, HDS announced the availability of HDT (Hitachi dynamic tiering) on their shiny new VSP. Months ago, IBM announced the availability easy tiering on their DS8000. Last spring, 3Par (now HP) announced the...
Continua3Par,Dell,HP: the good,the bad and the ugly. – updated
This article was updated with the latest news on sept 2th at 15.50 (CET) The story is ended: Dell didn’t respond to the latest call for the 3Par bid and HP officially won for a total price of 2.4B$! Indeed, the 3Par press release is very strange (read third paragraph) but analysts and bloggers all bet on HP for the win. As you know, after a first official bid from Dell in the mid of...
ContinuaDell is becoming a storage one stop shop
Well, I’m back from holiday and my internet connection was almost non-existent there but last week I heard about the last good shot from DELL in the storage world, they are buying one of the best and innovative enterprise storage vendors: 3Par! As I already said in the recent past, Dell’s acquisitions strategy is going very well, they are doing a good job filling the gaps in their...
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