Enterprise Computing: Dell Acquire Perot Systems
After a lot of second guessing by people, Dell have finally made that purchase and announced today they intend to acquire Perot Systems, which will become the services arm for the company. There’s no...
View ArticleDell to Acquire 3Par
There’s nothing like a bit of surprise (ish) tech news to generate an off the cuff quick post; here’s today’s tidbit. Dell are to acquire 3Par. Clearly the Farley Curse has struck again and for a mere...
View ArticleHP Challenges Dell for 3Par
So there we have it. A week after Dell announce their intention to acquire 3Par, HP put their cards on the table and trump the Dell bid with an updated offer of $24 a share. This represents a 1/3...
View Article3Par Acquisition: The Future For The Storage Industry
The ongoing battle for 3Par by HP & Dell tells us much more about the state of the IT Industry than just the desires of two companies to acquire some interesting storage tech. It signals an...
View ArticleCompellent – The Inevitable Acquisition
Well, the announcement has been made and it’s official, Dell and Compellent are in talks over a “merger” which basically means Dell acquiring Compellent for around $27.50 per share. The press release...
View ArticleEMC Enters The Market With “Me Too” Flash Products
Yesterday EMC finally revealed the details on their not-so-secret Lightning and Thunder flash projects. Fortunately this launch event didn’t include cramming small people into minis or firing Chad...
View ArticleDell Allegedly Bid for Fusion-IO
Last Friday Eric Savitz over at Forbes reported that Dell may have put in a speculative bid for Fusion-IO (thanks to Don Jennings for spotting the article). The rumoured price was $33 a share, which...
View ArticleBad Day At The Office For Dell, HP & Netapp
Just a quick post on news that came over the wire late UK time. Dell saw their share price drop by 17% today on weak quarterly figures, as reported by Forbes, with seemingly significant drops in their...
View ArticleMicrosoft Announces The Surface Tablet
We now know what Microsoft’s big announcement is – a tablet called the Surface. To many this may seem like just another “me too” product from the company that used to rule the desktop, but I think a...
View ArticleMaking Sense of Storage Vendor Growth Comparisons
Each quarter, Gartner produces a report listing their estimates on figures for sales of external storage arrays, otherwise known as “external controller-based” disk (ECB). The figures for 3Q12 are...
View ArticleDell Acquiring EMC – The Facts
As I’m not a journalist, I don’t have a need to leap in and make commentary when big announcements/acquisitions are made. Instead I’ve taken the time to look at all of the comments already out there...
View ArticleDell Acquiring EMC – The Federation
This is the second of a series of posts on the pending acquisition of EMC by Dell. One of the biggest features of the modern EMC has been the idea of a federation of independent businesses, established...
View ArticleCloud Will Not Consume IT – Apparently
Public cloud will not consume all of IT, at least that’s what Michael Dell is claiming. In his opinion, cloud will become just another form of computing and a choice will be made by users to do cloud...
View ArticleMeasuring the Size of the Storage Market
Last week I posted a small comment on the latest IDC Storage Tracker figures. The data shows ODM Direct as the largest category and the one with the most growth (73% year on year). For some time I’ve...
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Storage Field Day 14 Preview: EMC
Update: Looks like we’ll be seeing XtremIO again! (link) It’s over a year since I did a full Tech Field Day event. Where does the time go? Next week I’m attending Storage Field Day 14, based in the...
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