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

A storage industry breakthrough was unveiled today after four storage vendors came together to collaborate on a common mission: to promote active archives and simplify online access to all archived data.

I’m proud to join executives from QStar, Compellent, FileTek and my own organization, Spectra Logic, in announcing the formation of the Active Archive Alliance. Continue Reading

The presentation from Richard Scannell – Senior Vice President of Glasshouse Technologies at IP Expo 2009 was one of the best attended and subsequently most viewed presentations covering data centers at the event. You can view this ondemand here Richards comments still resonate and hold true one year on.

The evolution of the data centre can be simplified into a small number of major computing shifts – the invention of the mainframe and therefore the data centre, the client server revolution, the adoption of the internet and most recently, Virtual insanity… Continue Reading