Tuesday, June 4th, 2013 IBM today announced that they are acquiring privately held Dallas Texas-based Softlayer and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider.
IBM is referring to this as Cloud without Compromise (read more about clouds, conversations and confidence here).
It's about the management, flexibly, scale up, out and down, agility and valueware.
Is ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2013 This is a follow-up companion post to the larger industry trends and perspectives series from earlier today (Part I, Part II and Part III) pertaining to today’s VMAX 10K enhancement and other announcements by EMC, and the industry myth of if large storage arrays or systems are dead.
The enhanced ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2013 This is the third in a multi-part series of posts (read first post here and second post here) looking at what else EMC announced today in addition to an enhanced VMAX 10K and dispelling the myth that large storage arrays are dead (or at least for now).
In addition to the ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2013 This is the first in a multi-part series of posts looking at if large enterprise and legacy storage systems are dead, along with what todays EMC VMAX 10K updates means.
EMC has announced an upgrade, refresh or new version of their previously announced Virtual matrix (VMAX) 10,000 (10K), part ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2012 HP has been talking and promoting for several weeks (ok, months) their upcoming December 3rd storage announcements from the HP discovery event in Frankfurt Germany.
Well its now afternoon which means the early Monday morning December 3rd embargos have been lifted so I can now talk about what HP shared last ...
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Saturday, November 24th, 2012 Recently I was in Europe for a couple of weeks including stops at Storage Networking World (SNW) Europe in Frankfurt, StorageExpo Holland, Ceph Day in Amsterdam (object and cloud storage), and Nijkerk where I delivered two separate 2 day, and a single 1 day seminar.
At the recent StorageExpo Holland event in Utrecht, I ...
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Thursday, July 12th, 2012 Following up from my last post over at InfoStor about metrics that matter, here is a link to a new piece that I did on storage vendors benchmarking and related topics. This new post looked at an storage performance council (SPC1) benchmark that HP did with their ...
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Thursday, May 17th, 2012 An industry trends and perspective..
Are large storage arrays dead at the hands of SSD? Short answer NO not yet.
There is still a place for traditional storage arrays or appliances particular those with extensive features, functionality and reliability availability serviceability (RAS). In other words, there is still a place for large ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 This is the fourth in a five-part series around the recent IBM PureSystems announcements. You can view the earlier post here, and the next post here.
So what does this mean for IBM Business Partners (BPs) and ISVs?
What could very well differentiate IBM PureSystems from those of other competitors ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 This is the fifth in a five-part series around the recent IBM PureSystems announcements. You can view the earlier post here.
So what about vendor or technology lock in?
So who is responsible for vendor or technology lock in? When I was working in IT organizations, (e.g. ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 This is the third in a five-part series around the recent IBM PureSystems announcements. You can view the earlier post here, and the next post here.
So what about the IBM Virtual Appliance Factory?
Where PureFlex and PureApplication (PureSystems) are the platforms or vehicles for enabling your journey to efficient and effective ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 This is the second in a five-part series around the recent IBM PureSystems announcements. You can view the earlier post here, and the next post here.
So what are the speeds and feeds of a PureFlex system?
The components that make up the PureFlex line include:
IBM management ...
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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 This is the first in a five-part series around the recent IBM PureSystems announcements. You can view the next post here.
For a certain generation of IBM faithful or followers the recently announced PureFlex and PureApplication systems might give a sense of DejaVu perhaps even causing some to ...
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Monday, November 7th, 2011 Now that Halloween and talk of Zombies has past (at least for now), that means next up on the social or holiday calendar topics in the U.S. is thanksgiving which means turkey themes.
With turkey themes in mind, how about some past, current and maybe future technology flops or where ...
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