Is EMC the Next Step in Oracle’s Journey to $100B?
Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, hired former HP CEO Mark Hurd and declared that as “Oracle continues to grow, we need people experienced in operating a $100 billion business,” and ever since, the...
View ArticleBig Data and NoSQL March to the Enterprise
Big data and NoSQL solutions received welcome attention this year from developers and investors alike. The rallying cry of “No SQL” appears to have been tempered to include “Not Only SQL”, adding a...
View ArticleWhat’s Behind The Build-Your-Own Data Center Trend
Facebook's planned North Carolina data center.In the wars of the web, hard goods have become the ammunition of choice. Specifically we see major web and technology companies building their own data...
View ArticleWhy Is Storage So Hot? Cisco Provides a Clue.
In March of 2009, Cisco launched its Unified Computing System, or UCS for short. It signaled to other data center equipment vendors that the separation between servers, networking, and storage was...
View ArticleWhat Comes After the Storage M&A Gold Rush
Between July 2009 and December 2010, HP, EMC, IBM, and Dell spent almost $10 billion on data storage and warehousing companies including Data Domain, 3Par, Greenplum, Netezza, Isilon, and Compellent....
View ArticleEMC’s Low-End Launch Makes Dell Look Prescient
This week brought the full fanfare of EMC and its “Record Breaking” launch, which some say sounded more like a broken record. Shoving 26 people into a Mini Cooper and motorcycle jumping aside, the...
View ArticleThe Dawn of the Super Server
We’re in the midst of a computing implosion: a re-centralization of resources driven by virtualization, many-core CPUs, GPU computing, flash memory, and high-speed networking. Some have predicted, only...
View ArticleVMware Is The New Microsoft, Just Without an OS
In the past 10 years VMware has executed a remarkable strategy to topple enterprise software incumbents and emerge as an ecosystem kingpin. More recently, the company has plunged head first into cloud...
View ArticleVMware’s slow and steady attack on storage
VMware has transformed the enterprise computing model more than any other company in the past decade. By allowing companies to add multiple virtual servers onto a single physical server, the company...
View ArticleWatch out tech world. This CEO knows consumers
Say what you will about Meg Whitman as the new CEO of HP. She knows consumers. Just a couple of days ago, HP was led by a lifelong enterprise software veteran madly dashing to refashion a global...
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