Key Mergers & Acquisitions in the Storage Industry – 2016

The storage industry has been going through a lot of dynamism and churn recently. The dynamism within this domain is further fueled by mergers and acquisitions (M&A). In the past, this industry has witnessed data storage M&A activities at a fierce rate. But things have changed now; both acquirers and targets have thinned out

Software-Defined-Storage (SDS) – An Alternative to Traditional Storage

We all are aware of the amount of data being generated by an enterprise as well as an individual every minute across the globe. Mobility, social media…

Top 5 Storage acquisitions in first half of 2016

Every year acquisitions are changing the storage landscape, adding a lot of dynamism and churn in the entire storage industry. First half of year 2016 has been no exception. We have seen some key acquisitions happened which may impact storage industry in the long run. They were 27 acquisitions….

Data Reduction in Primary Storage – Boon or a Burden?

In recent times there are many storage players embarking into the market and the competition is fierce. Storage vendors would not like to be behind in offering rich features in their products to attract customers. In addition, there are FUDs around dealing storage in a traditional ways due to….

IOT World 2016

IOT World commenced 3 years ago on a street in Palo Alto. The event this year saw a footfall of 10000 people. In his welcome speech, ” Gavin Whitechurch, founder of IoT World said “It’s been an amazing journey over 3 years. We started three years ago. We set it up for 350 people, but actually got 700. Last year, in San Francisco, it was….

Should Datacenters go the Hyper-Converged way?

Change is inevitable and so is applicable to datacenters. Trends show that datacenters are adopting new changes as many disruptive technology vendors embark into the datacenter business. Players ranging from flash storage to software defined storage, viz., Pure Storage, Nimble, Nutanix, Simplivity, etc., are all boarding this ….

Disaster Recovery Solution

There is one simple question to ask, to determine whether business needs a backup and disaster recovery plan: “Can business continue to function with any critical data,…

Top 5 Storage Startups in 2015

Every year storage startups brings lot of dynamism and churn in the entire storage industry. Some of them disappear quickly, some disappear painfully, some gets acquired and…

NetApp Acquisition of SolidFire – My View

NetApp’s $870 million acquisition of SolidFire was much discussed news after Dell and EMC merger in the year 2015. This acquisition solidifies the future roadmap for all-flash…

Storage Industry – A recap and the road ahead

Storage industry has evolved in recent years. We have seen more data, and different kinds of data, generated by enterprises in the recent past. However with addition…