Dell’s attempt to establish itself as a go-to supplier of cloud storage infrastructure is hanging in the balance this morning as the market waits to see if it will continue to bid against HP for control of 3PAR. Dell must decide today if it will counter HP’s latest bid $30 per share offer for 3PAR, but financial analysts expect it to back down in the face of HP’s deeper financial resources. Continue Reading

When Storage EXPO closed its doors for the final time last year, the storage vendor community was faced with finding a new forum in which to discuss and demonstrate its latest products and technologies. IP EXPO has proved to be the natural choice.

As the UK’s biggest and most comprehensive IT conference and exhibition, IP EXPO 2010 is really the ideal place for storage to be seen and discussed in the most relevant context. Not, as storage used to be treated, as a peripheral technology that played a supporting role alongside more “strategic” infrastructure technologies, but as a core component of the integrated technology stack that will be the foundation of tomorrow’s next generation business infrastructure. Continue Reading

“…there is a real danger of spending more on storage unless the designers take a holistic view of the infrastructure when considering network performance.”

The feedback from IP EXPO 2009 confirmed that the virtualised approach to communications reaches into every corner of the network, from applications and operating systems to storage and files systems. A consequence is that a major challenge for the network professional is how to ensure optimum performance.

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