What Did SanDisk Just Buy? Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Tuesday, June 17th 2014

Analyst Blogs

On June 5, 2014, Fusion-io executives invited industry analysts to a one-day product announcement and company strategy update. Eleven days later, SanDisk announced that it intended to acquire Fusion-io for $1.1B in cash as it builds out its enterprise flash and solid...

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Will Users See the Value of Software Defined Storage? blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Tuesday, June 3rd 2014

Analyst Blogs

Vendors of enterprise storage arrays (EMC, HDS, HP, IBM, NetApp) are all riding the Software Defined Storage (SDS) bandwagon to one degree or another. IBM says that its enterprise storage product line will over time become increasingly software defined. EMC’s ViPR SDS platform is...

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SSD is Hot — So Why is Toshiba Demolishing a NAND Flash Fab? Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Tuesday, May 20th 2014

Analyst Blogs

Toshiba recently announced that it will begin demolishing its No. 2 semiconductor fabrication facility, the company’s NAND Flash memory plant, and replace it with a new fab facility on the same site. Why? According to Toshiba: “The primary purpose of...

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Who Saves Everything? blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Tuesday, April 15th 2014

Analyst Blogs

If you were to ask the average enterprise data center administrator how long their organization save its data, the quick answer would be “forever.”  It’s been that way for years, in fact decades. Knowingly throwing away data is something that...

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Do Enterprise Storage Arrays have a Future? – Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Wednesday, February 12th 2014

Analyst Blogs

I’m reading some handwriting on the wall. It says that revenue growth for the storage array platforms commonly used in enterprise data centers will be hard to come by in 2014. I say this knowing full well that more data is being...

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Storage Market Forecast for 2014: Trifurcation Results in Increasing Complexity

By John Webster, Monday, December 9th 2013

Analyst Blogs

Tis the season for forecasting as pundits prove their worth by predicting the future—at least into the following year. As an industry analyst I often feel compelled to write these, usually with little regard for what I said the year...

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“Hadoop Meets The Mainframe” – John Webster’s Forbes blog, Inescapable Data

By John Webster, Wednesday, October 30th 2013

Analyst Blogs

Within enterprise data centers, Hadoop is a shiny new toy—the same place where the mainframe is sometimes thought of as a dinosaur. Yet the two have some things in common. Both are used as large scale, high performance batch processing...

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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

Analyst Blogs

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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“The Big Brother Backlash” – Inescapable Data, a Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Tuesday, August 6th 2013

Analyst Blogs

I just read an article written by Kevin Roose and published recently by New York mag that starts: “At 6 a.m. on Friday, I wake up, fumble for my alarm, and roll out of bed. As I walk to the...

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Dell Enterprise Forum And Dell’s Future – Forbes Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Monday, July 15th 2013

Analyst Blogs

Against a backdrop of continued uncertainty regarding founder Michael Dell’s proposal to Dell private via leveraged buyout (LBO), Dell hosted its Enterprise Forum recently in Santa Clara, CA for about 1,600 attendees that included customers, channel partners, analysts, and Dell...

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