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EMC and NetApp Vie for FCoE Leadership with PR Weapons
Posted by Stu Miniman in Infrastructure 2.0, Wikibon on July 28, 2010
This morning there were two announcements, that were really non-announcements, related to FCoE:
- Cisco and NetApp Unveil End-to-End FCoE Solution with VMware for the Dynamic Data Center in a press release
- EMC started shipping Ethernet switches from Cisco and Brocade (Foundry products) according to EnterprisePlanetIT.com
Wikibon Peer Incite to Feature NetApp’s Internal Focus on Green IT
On August 25th Dave Robbins, CTO, IT Infrastructure at NetApp will be discussing how they have transformed their IT operations from a legacy of inefficient and costly practices to its current level of enviable data center efficiency illustrated by a predicted PUE of 1.2 in their latest data center.
Dave’s discussion will be shaped by the accomplishments of his team over the past couple of years and to give some insight into the upcoming session the following are some of the team’s achievements.
By implementing VMware they reduced x86 based clients from 4600 to 230 saving $1.3M in power and cooling and reducing the number of racks needed by 182.
NetApp paints a positive picture at their recent analyst meeting.
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of attending the NetApp annual analyst meeting. This was the first I had attended and was well worth the investment. It was very well organized and orchestrated and my congratulations go out to Kris Newton and the team for a job well done.
The initial main tent session on the first day was focus on delivering a snapshot of company performance with Dan Warmenhoven (Chairman and CEO) kicking the session off followed by Tom Georgens (COO) and the rest of the senior executive team. Some of the key points delivered were:
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.
EMC Starts Bidding War for Data Domain
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on June 1, 2009
EMC earlier this afternoon put out an offer for $30 a share for Data Domain, $5 more than NetApp’s bid. In after hours trading, Data Domain’s stock is up over $30 indicating that the street believes NetApp will be forced to match. NetApp stock is also up in after hours trading so somehow the street thinks a bidding war is good for NetApp. Sometimes things aren’t so logical on Wall Street– this won’t likely hold.
Here’s the EMC release.
NetApp to Acquire Data Domain: Can it Castrate this Bull?
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on May 21, 2009
Some folks I know on Wall Street started shorting Data Domain stock late last year and were very happy until today. Actually, they’re still pretty happy, just not giddy like they were in March when the stock bottomed. As you can see from the chart below, DDUP has outperformed its peers in the past three months and will now spike close to the buyout price.
Relative Comparison
In after hours trading, DDUP is approaching the announced buyout price of $25, a nearly 40% premium over yesterday’s close. That’s at or near it’s 52-week high, which is pretty astounding.
Getting the “Tweety” Bug @ SNW
Spring 2009 Storage Networking World is now history. As expected the crowds were down a bit with the vendor participation down significantly but according to the SNW folks, end user attendees were at 92% when compared to last year, not too bad considering current economic realities.
Eyes are now on SNW Fall to see how well the event can rebound, or not.
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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