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LSI’s OEM Playbook
Why does LSI exist? In 2007, Bill Zeitler, former head of IBM’s Systems and Technology business said something to me that summed it up perfectly: “Industry revenue is growing at 9% and R&D spending is growing at 12%– we can’t afford to fund everything.”Bill retired a couple of years ago and the numbers have obviously ...
March Madness – Shifting Tides in the Data Center
It’s been an interesting first quarter. Cisco and HP dumping on each other last month, 3PAR turns up the heat in automated storage tiering and then HP’s two-day analyst event in March, followed up by EMC’s grand vision for federated storage and then LSI’s analyst event in NYC. Next week is Iron Mountain in Boston ...
HP Storage Play? My HP V8 Moment
Wow—HP is finally getting its act together in storage. For years HP has talked about leveraging the systems and storage business but that vision has never materialized as a serious differentiator. Guess what? It’s finally happening. And there’s an added bonus, HP’s move to compete with Cisco makes it the only company on the planet ...
EMC Does the Vision Thing: Federated Virtualized Storage
Last October I wrote: “By late 2012, federated storage will be the architecture of choice for large new storage deployments. These capabilities will dramatically improve IT’s ability to respond to business needs with minimal disruptions. IT organizations should plan to aggressively adopt federated storage as it becomes commercially available.” Around that same timeframe, Nick Allen ...