Comments on: Dell wins EqualLogic – EMC loses

By: Steven Schwartz

Steven Schwartz — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:48:37 +0000

Robin, I think you are spot on here. Players like Cisco, EMC, NetApp, HP, SunTek, etc. are all looking at what the next technology money maker is going to be. I am riding the iSCSI train right to the bank right now, and there are no stops on this line.

If you look at Sun’s purchase of Lustre, NetApp’s purchse of Spinnaker, HP’s purchse of PolyServe, Rackable’s purchse of Terascale, etc. It looks like scalable storage architectures are the next wave. Now the questions that need to be answered:

1. Can any of those companies make a scalable storage architecture that doesn’t need a PHD in kernel development to deploy and support.
2. Can these technologies meet the needs of the masses?
3. Can these monstrous companies (Rackable not included clearly), get out of the way of process in order to help drive stability and functionality?

I hope you are having a great end of year.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:41:40 +0000

I think the best description of what is happening with this purchase was done by the register.com, in a write up they did. The included a picture here: http://regmedia.co.uk/2007/11/07/dellandemc.jpg

By: Kevin Closson

Kevin Closson — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:46:14 +0000

And all the other new storage companies – LeftHand, Isilon, iBrix, iStor and more – are all due for a thorough vetting by the rest of the players. HP in particular needs to get serious.

…Robin, you’re joking right? Isilon is toast and HP bought PolyServe for scalabile NAS. I think HP got (past tense) serious.

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