Overland's SnapServer will soon scale out to hundreds of nodes, thanks to MaxiScale's technology Overland Storage is showing intriguing signs of life. Once relegated to OEM tape library duty, Overland received an injection of cash and (more importantly) talent this year. Now the company is … [Read more...]
The Enterprise IT Acquisition Game
September 2, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The players are lining up for the biggest acquisition game enterprise IT has witnessed in a while Today is the (a?) day of reckoning in the 3Par saga, with Dell widely expected to make a counter-offer higher than HP’s bid. But this mega deal, like the Data Domain war before it, sends a strong … [Read more...]
Dell + EqualLogic, Exanet, Ocarina, 3Par = What?
August 17, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The storage industry got a lot more competitive this morning, as Dell announced plans to buy 3Par. This is the latest round in a well-established race for the enterprise storage dollar, challenging superpower (and Dell partner) EMC in the high-end SAN space. What does this acquisition say about the … [Read more...]
The Rebirth of Overland Storage
March 3, 2010 by 2 Comments
It's been a long, strange trip for Overland Storage (NASDAQ: OVRL). Best known in recent years for the tape backup libraries it sold through Hewlett-Packard, Overland is in the midst of an iSCSI-focused renovation at the hands of former Snap Appliance and Data Robotics execs. Could this reboot … [Read more...]
LSI Picks Up ONStor
July 22, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Just five days after HP announced it would acquire IBRIX, another scale-out NAS provider has been purchased. LSI announced today that it would acquire ONStor for $25 million in cash. The company sold a range of SAN and NAS storage systems, but was best-known for its Bobcat clustered NAS … [Read more...]
Perfection…
March 13, 2009 by 2 Comments
Although I give the various players a hard time; the industry doesn't do everything badly and I try to see the positives as well as the negatives. So I was thinking about the perfect array and what features I would like to see! So a random stream of consciousness produced the … [Read more...]
Reacting to the 2008 Storage Products of the Year
February 24, 2009 by Leave a Comment
The mainstream media is still digesting the Oscar awards, but we in storage had our own announcement this week: TechTarget's (now PDF) Storage magazine announced their Storage Products of the Year award for 2008. Without further ado, the awards and my reaction! Disk and disk subsystems A … [Read more...]