NetApp buys Bycast
Brilliant NetApp is buying Bycast, the little-known but likely most successful scale-out file storage company. Bycast has several hundred customers, many installed petabytes, leadership in a growing market segment - medical imaging - and a compelling value...
VKernel
Got a presentation from a company I hadn't heard of before: VKernel. Their specialty is virtual machine capacity planning and management. They demo'd their software, which ships as a VM. They offer free versions that are good enough to tell you if their paid tools...
StorageMojo traveling
Off to Boston for a group blogger tour today and back Saturday. The agenda has been shrouded in secrecy though I believe EMC is on the list - with no NDA. Looking forward to that. Next week off to Las Vegas for the National Association of Broadcasters convention....
Violin tunes up
Spoke to Don Basile and Matt Barletta of Violin Memory Friday. I've been talking to Violin for the last couple of years, and while I liked the technology was skeptical of their ability to commercialize it. That was then. Today Violin announced a multi-million dollar...
Vendors MIA on health privacy fight
For an industry that stands to make billions of dollars on electronic health records (EHR) - if we can get people to use them - storage vendors are strangely passive on the issue of health privacy. Even the good guys like HP and NetApp are silent. What's up? The...
Brocade’s ex-CEO convicted on 9 felony charges
In a 2nd trial, Brocade's former CEO Gregory Reyes was convicted of 9 felony charges of fraud and making false statements. The jury deliberated for 4 days. The jury acquitted him of a conspiracy charge. Sentencing is set for June 24. His lawyer will appeal for a new...
Symantec retreats from the storage battlefield
A reader writes that Symantec is laying off about 60 people from the division formerly known as Veritas: By now I’m sure you’ve heard about Symantec downsizing the (mostly) Mountain View storage group, cancelling some projects and moving others to India. One of...
HCR: a great day for storage
The historic Health Care Reform that Congress passed last night puts America on a path to be competitive with every other industrialized nation. But it is good for the storage industry as well. Why? Electronic medical records As I noted back in '06: Medical records...
Brocade’s unraveling
The Wall Street Journal gave Brocade free advertising with the article Network Specialist Brocade Up for Sale back in October. 5 months later Brocade is still for sale - and despite the HP/Cisco network wars it still isn't clear why anyone might buy them. Brocade's...
The Next Big Things
The Wall Street Journal recently published a ranking of the top 50 venture-backed companies - and storage got its share. #2 on the list: Fusion-io, a company StorageMojo has followed from the early days. They've closed major deals with IBM, HP, Dell and Samsung. From...
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