IPO or Acquisition, The Storage Startup Dilemma
Last week Nimble Storage announced their Q1 2016 results. These show continued growth (both in customers and revenue) but also highlighted an equivalent increase in quarter on quarter losses, with break even predicted for 2017, four years after the company floated on...
Nutanix produces “Community Edition” of Nutanix OS
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...
EMC to open source less successful software acquisitions
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...