HPE Continues Buying into Server Storage I/O Data Infrastructures
This past week HPE continued buying into server storage I/O data
infrastructure technologies announcing an all cash (e.g., no stock)
acquisition of Nimble Storage (NMBL). The cash acquisition for a little over
$1B USD amounts to $12.50 USD per Nimble share, double what it had traded at.
As a refresh, or overview, Nimble is an all flash shared storage system
leverage NAND flash solid storage device (SSD) performance. Note that Nimble
also partners with Cisco and Lenovo platforms that compete with HPE servers
for converged systems.
Earlier this year (keep in mind its only mid-March) HPE also announced
acquisition of server storage Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) vendor
Simplivity (about $650M USD cash). In another investment this year HPE joined
other investors as part of scale out and software de... (more)
Dell EMC Announce Azure Stack Hybrid Cloud Solution
Dell EMC have announced their Microsoft Azure Stack hybrid cloud platform
solutions. This announcement builds upon earlier statements of support and
intention by Dell EMC to be part of the Microsoft Azure Stack community. For
those of you who are not familiar, Azure Stack is an on premise extension of
Microsoft Azure public cloud.
What this means is that essentially you can have the Microsoft Azure
experience (or a subset of it) in your own data center or data
infrastructure, enabling cloud experiences and abilities at your own ... (more)
Did You Want a Side of SLBS (Serverless BS) with Your Software or Hardware
FUD?
A few years ago a popular industry buzzword term theme included server less
and hardware less.
It turns out, serverless BS (SLBS) and hardware less are still trendy, and
while some might view the cloud or software-defined data center (SDDC)
virtualization, or IoT folks as the culprits, it is more widespread with
plenty of bandwagon riders. SLBS can span from IoT to mobile, VDI and
workspace clients (zero or similar), workstations, server, storage, networks.
To me what’s ironic is that many purveyor... (more)
Software Defined, Cloud, Bulk and Object Storage Fundamentals
Welcome to the Cloud, Big Data, Software Defined, Bulk and Object Storage
fundamentals page part of the objectstoragecenter.com micro site collection
of resources. Software defined, Bulk, Cloud and Object Storage exist to
support expanding and diverse application data demands. There are various
types of cloud, bulk and object storage including public services such as
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3), Google, Microsoft
Azure, IBM Softlayer, Rackspace among many others. There are also solutions
for ... (more)
Six (or More) Data Center and Software Defined Management Dashboards
Recently I found in my inbox a link to a piece 6 Dashboards for Managing
Every Modern Data Center that caught my attention. I was hoping to see who
the six different dashboard solutions were instead of finding list of
dashboard considerations for modern data centers and data infrastructures.
Turns out the piece was nothing more than a list of six items featured as
part of the vendors (Sunbird) piece about what to look for in a dashboard
(e.g. their product). Sure there were some of the usual key performance
ind... (more)
Greg Schulz is founder of the Server and StorageIO (StorageIO) Group, an IT industry analyst and consultancy firm. Greg has worked with various server operating systems along with storage and networking software tools, hardware and services. Greg has worked as a programmer, systems administrator, disaster recovery consultant, and storage and capacity planner for various IT organizations. He has worked for various vendors before joining an industry analyst firm and later forming StorageIO.
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