HCI – What Happened in 2017 and What to Watch for in 2018

By Eric Slack, Sunday, January 14th 2018

Analyst Blogs

The Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) segment continued to grow throughout 2017. Evaluator Group research in this area expanded in 2017 as well, adding products from NetApp, Lenovo and IBM. In this blog we’ll review some of the developments that occurred in 2017...

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Enterprise Vendors Expanding in the HCI Market

By Eric Slack, Tuesday, October 10th 2017

Analyst Blogs

The Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) market has been shifting towards the larger, established storage and server vendors for the past year or more. HPE bought SimpliVity earlier in 2017, Cisco is expanding its presence, and IBM and NetApp are coming out...

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“Can the Storage Industry be Up and Down at the Same Time?” John Webster’s “Inescapable Data” Forbes Blog

By John Webster, Friday, October 4th 2013

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In a recent blog post, Dan Crain, CEO of WhipTail (recently acquired by Cisco) concluded that: “We are seeing a new generation of data storage technology from companies that are pioneering new ways to think about “Big and Fast Data.”...

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EMC: The Platform Company — Data-Driven Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Wednesday, May 18th 2011

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It's Monday morning at EMC World 2011 and EMC Chairman Joe Tucci opens the show with 10,000-plus in the audience. On stage with Tucci are big black boxes. What's wrong with this picture? EMC is no longer a company that...

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Capellas led coalition making strides by the Vblock, John Webster Data-Driven blog

By John Webster, Monday, December 20th 2010

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VCE most closely resembles a nonprofit organization in that it is totally funded by capital and equity contributions from the four coalition members. All revenue from Vblock sales and services is turned over to the partners based on their product...

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How Hitachi’s Hu Yoshida Got the Last Word, blog post by John Webster

By John Webster, Wednesday, September 29th 2010

Analyst Blogs

www.cnet.com/data-driven If you're an Hitachi Data Systems storage customer, you by now know that HDS announcedits latest virtualized storage platform codemnamed Victoria, also known as the Virtualized Storage Platform or VSP. And if you were an HDS customer at the...

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