Hadoop Appliances — the Lengthening List

By John Webster, Thursday, February 28th 2013

Analyst Blogs

I noted in a previous blog post that Hadoop needed a number of enhancements to make it more acceptable to enterprise users. One of them was simplicity. Indeed, even some of the purveyors of Hadoop distributions privately admit that Hadoop,...

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Storage Alignment or the lack there of…

By Leah Schoeb, Friday, September 21st 2012

Analyst Blogs

Storage Misalignment has been a performance issue that has been around for a long time. It can contribute to as much as a 30% loss in performance is not resolved.  It has always been a consideration in the physical environments...

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Solid state requires storage re-design — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Thursday, August 30th 2012

Analyst Blogs

IBM’s acquisition of Texas Memory Systems is the latest salvo in the battle of heavyweights as companies position themselves to offer primary storage based on solid-state technology. It’s important for IT professionals to understand that solid-state technology is used in...

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

By John Webster, Wednesday, May 18th 2011

Analyst Blogs

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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Think of Dell as a Storage Portfolio Player – Data-Driven Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Tuesday, March 22nd 2011

Analyst Blogs

Last year, Dell went on a storage buying spree. Dell took in Exanet for clustered, multiplatform NAS, Ocarina Networks for extensible, cross platform data compression and deduplication, capped-off with an announced agreement to acquire Compellent's virtualized storage arrays and Fluid...

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Which Big Data are you talking about? CNET Data-driven Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Monday, January 24th 2011

Analyst Blogs

Late last year I posted a blog item about big data and if/when it would present opportunities for storage vendors. I concluded by saying that, while it was a bit early for next-year prognostications, I expected to see the number...

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

By John Webster, Monday, December 20th 2010

Analyst Blogs

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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EMC doubles down on the mainframe, CNET blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Friday, November 12th 2010

Analyst Blogs

I’ll bet that, until November 10, 2010, you’d never heard of a company called Bus-Tech. Now that EMC has made them yet another acquisition target, you’re wondering why. In a statement quoted in the announcement release, Frank Slootman, President of...

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From IBM Netezza to the human brain, CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Friday, September 24th 2010

Analyst Blogs

In a surprise move, IBM is acquiring a business analytics vendor named Netezza. I say "surprise" first because few in my line of work saw this one coming (IBM already has products in this space. Why buy another?), and second...

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David Scott of 3Par, take a victory lap, CNET Data-driven blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Tuesday, August 17th 2010

Analyst Blogs

It has been a long time coming, but virtualized storage is now a "must have" technology. Dell has announced its intent to acquire next-gen storage vendor 3Par for $1.15 billion, excluding 3Par's cash and other considerations. With this acquisition, Dell...

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