Industry watchers like me have long wondered when Cisco will transform itself into a full-line IT infrastructure vendor. This strategy was tipped in 2009 as Cisco barged into the server market with UCS. But one leg of the stool is still missing: Storage remains the province of Cisco partners like EMC and NetApp. The Rack Endgame I recently wrote about “The Rack Endgame”, a … [Read more...] about Cisco’s Trojan Horse
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EMC Redefine Possible (TL;DR Edition)
EMC made quite a few announcements today at their "Redefine Possible" event in London. There's a lot of coverage out there already, so I decided to present a summary of the whole thing in "too long; didn't read" (TL;DR) fashion. Note that this isn't an attempt to list everything from the event but rather to pull out what I found to be important. And check out "Stephen's Stance" … [Read more...] about EMC Redefine Possible (TL;DR Edition)
We Need a Storage Revolution
Although many discussions in the storage industry focus on the relative merits of one protocol or another, the conversation occasionally turns to the core issue at hand: We continue to patch together a system based on outdated concepts. Most storage protocols continue to mimic direct attached storage, and most of our so-called networks act as point to point channels. An … [Read more...] about We Need a Storage Revolution