by Chris Evans | 13 May 2015 | Storage
I my last post I talked about EMC open-sourcing some of their products (in that scenario ViPR) and how that was probably a covert way of gaining access to other platforms they have no support for. This week, Nutanix (a hyper-converged solution provider) announced...
by Chris Evans | 7 May 2015 | Storage
This week at EMC World 2015, EMC announced the intention to open source or offer free downloads for a number of their recent software acquisitions, most notably ScaleIO and ViPR. ScaleIO was acquired in 2013 for around $300 million, ViPR is a mixture of iWave Software...
by Chris Evans | 13 Apr 2015 | Cloud, Storage
Just when you think you have a post ready for publication, a vendor comes out and releases a new product and you’re back to square one with a re-write. This was the case at the end of last week when Amazon Web Services (AWS) released news of their new Elastic...
by Chris Evans | 23 Mar 2015 | Virtualisation
This month, SimpliVity Corporation (www.simplivity.com) announced a Series D round of financing, raising an additional $175m for a total valuation of $1bn. To date, the company has raised $276 million in four rounds (press release). The money is to be used to fund...
by Chris Evans | 4 Mar 2015 | Storage
In a classic move worthy of The Innovator’s Dilemma, a number of recent announcements by flash and HDD vendors have continued a trend that could have the incumbent shared storage array vendors worried. In December 2014, HGST, a subsidiary of drive manufacturer...
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