Enterprises large and small have been flocking to cloud services and it’s sent the server business into a tailspin. Storage vendors are next to feel the disruptive pain. Recent market estimates show that storage industry growth has moved to ODMs and niche vendors targeting hyperscale cloud services. Indeed, most of the incremental storage, which is going into hyperscale… Read More »
A version of this article appeared on TechTarget SearchSOA as EMC builds for cloud and next-generation applications EMC World is the company’s traditional venue for major announcements, but this year the company’s premier event for customers, partners, analysts and journalists included more than just a laundry list of product updates. Sure, there was plenty of new hardware, like a… Read More »
A juxtaposition of events last week saw several major technology companies reveal key strategies and product updates that collectively served to illustrate the ongoing struggles of old tech blue bloods from the client-server era striving for relevance in the world of mobile devices, social software, cloud services and big data analytics. Together, this amalgam of technologies are the… Read More »
In a city where “doubling down” evokes images of smoke-filled rooms filled with gamblers donning shades pushing stacks of chips around a green felt table, as I detailed in this column, NetApp used its Insight conference in Las Vegas to do exactly that with a cloud-centric strategy that moves the company further away from its heritage as a storage box… Read More »
Complex Financial Relationships and Often Competing Alliances Make the Company Harder to Value and Susceptible to Product Overlap and infighting A key theme at this week’s EMC World conference, the company’s annual event showcasing its business strategy, technology innovations and new products, was what the company calls the federation: its corporate structure of four quasi-independent business units and… Read More »
Silicon is the darling of the storage world: Out with spinning disks, in with flash chips. There is a lot to like about solid-state storage. It offers faster I/O, lower latency and power consumption, and instant-on from sleep states for lightning-fast access to cold data, all from smaller components easily adapted to a variety of form factors. Indeed,… Read More »
If you just look at vendor financials, the enterprise storage business seems stuck in neutral. However, flat revenue numbers mask a scorching pace of technical innovation, ongoing double-digit capacity growth in enterprises, and dramatic changes in how and where businesses store data. Among almost 250 respondents to our InformationWeek 2014 State of Enterprise Storage Survey, all from organizations… Read More »