Adapter cards given the boot, too
Xsigo Systems, one of the pioneers of virtual I/O for server networks and their links to storage, is beside itself with excitement at the VMworld virtualization and cloud extravaganza in San Francisco now that it has f…
DXi6700 gets Fibre Channel
Quantum has added Fibre Channel access to its DXi6500 mid-range to make the DXi6700 with a 3.5TB/hour data rate.…Free Whitepaper – When legitimate sites threaten your network
Permabit is the lucky guy
Fast filer supplier BlueArc is going to embed Permabit’s Albireo deduplication software into its products, enabling more data to be stored in the same disk capacity.…
One rack, forty-eight 10 GE ports
Long-time InfiniBand switch maker Voltaire continues to expand its Ethernet product line – and therefore its addressable market. Today, it announced a new switch aimed at cloudy workloads inside companies and at host…
$2bn – because nothing else is ‘available’
Dell and HP have once again traded bids as they tussle over storage outfit 3PAR. On Friday morning, Dell matched HP’s Thursday bid of $27 a share, and HP promptly re-upped the ante with a $30 a share bid, va…
Yanai’s baby under threat
Mighty Moshe Yanai has left IBM for unknown reasons and regions unknown, with various bloggers suggesting his intensely competitive personality might have have something to do with it. That could leave the XIV product in a lur…
Poker pot reaches $1.8bn
HP upped the ante in its battle with Dell last night- outbidding the direct seller’s $24 a share offer for 3PAR with an offer of $27 a share – valuing 3PAR at $1.8bn.…Reg Guide to Enterprise Virtualization – Free Download!
Slams ex-colleague as ‘egotistical, greedy and arrogant’
A senior Hitachi Data Systems executive has launched an extraordinarily aggressive attack on IBM Fellow Moshe Yanai, the inventor of EMC’s Symmetrix platform and pioneer of XIV and Diligent, both…
Knocks HP back
3PAR has said ‘yes’ to Dell after the PC firm raised its bid for the storage vendor to $24.30/share beating HP’s rival bid by just 30 cents.…
Shane Robison shouts ‘NOOOOOOOOO’
If 3PAR decides the HP re-bid is a superior offer it is going to give Dell three days to come up with a better acquisition offer or be jilted.…