Posts Tagged IBM
IBM Squeezes Storwize into its Portfolio
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on July 29, 2010
Can you squeeze 20 lbs of flour into a 10 lb bag? That’s what Storwize does and its does so without impacting performance. In fact Wikibon members have indicated that Storwize compression technology actually increases the performance of file-based storage. In one of the industry’s worst kept secrets, as reported by SiliconAngle and Reuters in mid June, IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Israeli startup Storwize. IBM is not disclosing terms but sources indicate Big Blue paid perhaps as much as $140M for Storwize, an Isreali-based startup that has raised about $40M in venture capital from Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and other VCs. The deal will take about 30 days to close so Storwize should officially become part of IBM by the end of August.
20 Key Research Notes from the Wikibon Community
Posted by David Vellante in CIO Perspectives, Cloud Computing, Competition, Infrastructure 2.0, Storage, Virtualization, Web 2.0, Wikibon on April 28, 2010
The Wikibon community prides itself on its research. Our community’s primary goal has been in helping technology professionals solve business problems through a sharing of IT advisory knowledge. We do this through regular Peer Incites, case studies, and community research.
Inside Ten of the World’s Largest Data Centers
Posted by David Vellante in CIO Perspectives, Cloud Computing, Infrastructure 2.0, Wikibon on March 25, 2010
Data centers touch all our lives. Businesses rely on data centers to house mission critical information and run operational initiatives across the organization.Today’s largest data centers feature state-of-the-art technology, operation rooms spanning thousands of square meters, and are required to hold billions of pieces of customer and business information. As demand for cloud services increase these centers comprise tens or sometimes hundreds of thousands of servers, multi-petabyte storage systems and increasingly are situated in locations where cheap energy is plentiful.
In pictures, here is an inside look at ten of the world’s largest data centers.
Infrastructure Wars: The Battle Brewing in the Storage Industry
Posted by David Vellante in Storage, Wikibon on February 10, 2010
How Google, Microsoft and Oracle are Driving Competition in the Storage Industry
Application Stack vs Array
What you Need to Know
There is a competitive battle brewing in the on-premise storage business and it’s not between EMC/NetApp or EMC/IBM. It’s stemming from a move by independent software vendors specifically Microsoft and Oracle, to bundle more storage function into their application stacks, push storage function closer to the host and commoditize the storage hardware layer. The move to integrate storage function into the application stack is real and in some cases can add substantial value to organizations. But there is a price to pay and IT executives need to understand the strategies and implications for long term success. Underpinning these trends is Google’s decade long march toward simplification and cloud services; which is not only driving software vendors like Microsoft crazy; it’s also causing them to drive down perceived costs wherever possible and grab as much value in their stacks as they can.
Here’s the bottom line. IT execs have three choices:
Emulex Helps Data Protection and Privacy Through Encryption
Posted by Dennis Martin in Wikibon on November 13, 2009
Emulex’s strategic direction is to help IT shops provide additional data protection and privacy by encrypting data at the source – in the host server. There has been plenty of news about data breaches and literally millions of data records at risk, and some of the laws requiring public disclosure of data breaches. More recently, some states within the USA have passed laws requiring encryption for transmission or storage of personally identifiable information outside of a secure system. CIOs can no longer debate about whether to encrypt. Encryption is no longer an option, but a requirement.
8 Reasons to Pay Attention to XIV
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on November 11, 2009
Look Out World...Here Comes XIV!
IBM yesterday announced a number of enhancements to its XIV storage platform. You can read about what IBM announced in some detail here from Chris Mellor and here from Tony Pearson.
When IBM announced its acquisition of XIV in late 2007, the Wikibon Peer Incite Meeting on the topic was one of the most well-attended at that point in our history. The reasons were simple:
- XIV is Moshe’s company; and Moshe is a God in the storage business;
- IBM is a potential sleeping giant in storage.
Time to Re-think Disk-based Backup
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on October 7, 2009
Time to Re-think Backup?
Last week I wrote “From a backup perspective, the world is at an inflection point. Today’s requirements for growth, rapid data access and speedy recovery are outstripping the industry’s ability to solve backup challenges.” I’d like to explore this a bit further.
The basic premise of this post is that while storing data on disk in de-duplicated format is more cost effective than storing non-de-duplicated data, there is very little other advantage, in the backup process to just changing the target where data is stored. IT practitioners, especially those aggressively pursuing virtualization strategies, have an opportunity to re-architect backup processes and dramatically reduce I/O bottlenecks associated with backup.
FalconStor – The Other De-Dup Option
Posted by Nick Allen in Wikibon on June 3, 2009
On Monday, June 1st, 2009, FalconStor Software announced some pretty compelling data reduction numbers. Depending on whose numbers you believe FalconStor’s single-node performance is 20-30% faster than Data Domain’s single node performance. What’s more, in its reference environment discussed here on Wikibon and in a press release here FalconStor’s Single Instance Repository (SIR) was able to achieve a 40:1 data reduction ratio – 20:1 using SHA-1 deduplication at a block level and then 2:1 using hardware compression cards from HiFN. FalconStor also has file level data reduction using pretty much the same code.
Hanging in the Wikibon Tweet Suite at SNW Spring 2009
Posted by Dennis Martin in Wikibon on April 10, 2009
It was another successful and busy week at Storage Networking World (SNW) Spring 2009 in Orlando. Although the number of vendors, by my count, was 48% of what it was in Spring 2008, it was apparent that the vendors who did participate sent fewer people. However, the SNW officials said that the end-user attendance was 92% of what it was in Spring 2008. Obviously travel budgets have been cut, and this was reflected in the end-user attendance, which had shifted to many local IT professionals from the central Florida region.
Hanging in the Tweet Suite @ SNW
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on April 9, 2009
The Spring 2009 Storage Networking World ends today. It was a busy week for the Wikibon team as we were briefed by more than 25 technology companies and tweeted the live action to the Wikibon community. Bill Mottram, Dennis Martin and I gave presentations during the week, Dennis on SSD for Microsoft Apps, Bill on optimizing energy and efficiency and me with Rich Avila on how Virtualization Energizes Cal State U East Bay.
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