Posts Tagged Cloud Computing
EMC Acquires Archer, Integration Next
EMC Acquires Archer
The latest acquisition of Archer Technologies fills a gap in EMCs solution ecosystem with a best-in-class GRC software platform. With the Archer acquisition, and the development of an integration layer across EMC products, EMC creates the opportunity to speak more definitively about its capability to provide GRC solutions for core IT assets and operations and across the enterprise. The acquisition also provides a competitive play for EMC against other infrastructure technology providers including Oracle, with its GRC Manager, Microsoft with GRC Solution Accelerators and Sharepoint, CA, with its own GRC Manager, and others interested in their piece of the still-developing GRC marketplace.
Twitter, Google and Asimov
Posted by Nick Allen in Wikibon on November 9th, 2009
Can Entropy be Reversed?
Isaac Asimov, one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, wrote a short story entitled “The Last Question” in 1956. It begins:
The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way …
Data Direct Networks takes on EMC Atmos with Web Object Scaler (WOS)
Data Direct Networks (DDN) announced their entry into the cloud with the introduction of Web Object Scaler (WOS), a clustered storage system based on an object based file system that has been four years in the making.
WOS is targeting the web content and storage market with a particular focus on Internet and Web 2.0 sites, health-care, document imaging, online game development and geospatial information services. DDN have clearly identified the content distribution network (CDN) space with its cost and ownership issues as a prime opportunity and despite the EMC Atmos claim that they are not in this space it is obvious that DDN have Atmos in their sights.
Can EMC Remain Independent?
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on May 15th, 2009
My Wall Street buds are convinced EMC is going to be acquired by Cisco. I alluded to the possibility of an EMC merger in this post and started to develop a scenario as to why it’s inevitable. While I think it’s quite possible I don’t think it’s as much a fait accomplis as do some and I think it makes less sense than I originally thought, especially from the buyers’ perspective.
Scenario for why EMC may be acquired
Weighing in on Donatelli
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on April 29th, 2009
I wasn’t going to write about this because generally there’s no value to users in writing about what essentially is gossip fodder. But something was missing from the analysis I did read about the news that Dave Donatelli was leaving EMC to join HP to run its storage, server and networking division.
I, like many other observers, know Dave Donatelli. I don’t hang with him on weekends but I’ve known him for a long time– PS, as in pre-Symmetrix. Although less in-your-face, he was one of the many young, aggressive, type A personalities I worked with when EMC was cracking into the storage business with things like add-on cache memories for 3880 controllers. BTW – I think they sold two but it got them thinking about how cached disk could improve performance– nice idea.
It’s not working…it’s networking!
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on April 28th, 2009
One of the many things I learned from my sales mentor Jeffrey Gitomer is that if your industry is having an event and there will be more than 100 high profile butts in the seats, then your butt better be there too with an elevator pitch, a stack of business cards and some great ideas– everybody loves ideas right?
Well, last December I got a call from Greg Duplessie explaining to me that he had this idea for a networking event called, get this – The Business Development Networking Event. Needless to say, I didn’t have to ask what the purpose of the conference was if you know what I mean.
Some high level highlights of today’s Symmetrix V-Max announcement.
EMC announced their latest 3rd generation Symmetrix architecture today the labeled the Virtual Matrix Architecture. The announcement was kicked off by Tucci who positioned the event as both the introduction of a new architecture as well and the introduction of the first V-Max product. Donatelli then proceeded to give a bit more detail. The following are the highlights I captured during his presentation.
- Symmetrix was introduced 18 years ago, this is the 3rd generation architecture.
- The intelligence and the compute resources are contained in a module called the Symmetrix V-Max Engine. Multiple engines can be matrix together with capacity resources in a scale-out architecture.
Why aren’t more VMware storage arrays virtualized?
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on March 18th, 2009
Yesterday, the Wikibon community heard from Cal State U East Bay’s Rich Avila. He, like other guests on Wikibon, including BT’s Michael Crader, have cited the benefits of combining server and storage virtualization. Yet numerous customers we speak with don’t virtualize storage arrays under VMware.
Industry data from IDC and Forrester over the past few years clearly shows EMC dominates in virtualized server environments as the backend storage platform of choice. The data ranges from 40% to close to 50% market share. Clearly these EMC arrays are not sitting behind Invista so one can only assume the capacity of these arrays is not virtualized. Folks like 3PAR of course would say that this is a missed opportunity– once you try a fully virtualized platform under VMware you’ll see the advantages and won’t go back.
HP’s Upline Bites the Dust
Posted by Nick Allen in Wikibon on March 12th, 2009
HP Upline consumers have been notified by an email from Hewlett-Packard stating that the service would be discontinued effective March 31, 2009. Read more at App Scout »
This closure, follows AOL’s closure of Xdrive this past January, 2009, and sparked an interesting Linkedin discussion on Cloud Storage business models including comments by David Friend, CEO, Carbonite and Peter Secor President and CEO at Allmydata.
EMC’s big bet
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on March 11th, 2009
I love big bets– especially big well thought out bets. I learned years ago at the race track that the best way to approach betting was to not bet at all. You see, I went to the track so infrequently that I wanted to bet every race just for the thrill and fun of it. You can almost never make money that way. That’s why 99% of the people who go to the racetrack lose money. The 1% of horseplayers that make money will go to a meet and watch. They will wait, observe, take notes, do research and wait some more. Sometimes they will go through an entire month-long meet without making a bet because the conditions aren’t right. They wait for that once in a very long while when everything lines up perfectly.
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