Entries tagged as ‘Moshe Yanai’
Enterprise Strategy Group’s Mark Peters and I sat down in Minneapolis today and talked shop. Besides having a cool Oxford-trained English accent, his views on the storage landscape rang true to me:
- The storage system market is out of balance right now, with several “big boys” (IBM, EMC et al) and dozens of “little guys” playing in the same sandbox.
- This is not sustainable, and causing the industry mainstays to make unusually bold moves (witness EMC’s SSD and Mozy forays and IBM’s Diligent and XIV acquisitions)
- Xiotech and Atrato are exciting because they are promising clear, core benefits. “Do you want maintenance-free storage, or storage that requires service visits/costs/risks?”
- Xiotech and Compellent are both based in Minnesota with common management roots, but seem to have staked out two distinct storage solution spaces. More on this in another post.
- “Green” is overhyped. Mostly storage companies mean “energy efficient”, and would do well to be clearer on this.
Keep your eyes peeled for a new blog from Mark. Not too surprising given ESG’s success with Steve’s IT Rants blog. I hope Mark dives in. His unique perspective would benefit many.
Categories: Industry trends · Storage Systems
Tagged: EMC, IBM, Enterprise Strategy Group, XIV, Moshe Yanai, green, ESG, Diligent, Xiotech, Compellent, Mark Peters
Potential risk for IBM competitors currently using Diligent’s product
Byte and Switch is referencing Israeli media reports that IBM has acquired Diligent for $200M. The deal’s been talked about in the blogosphere, including here, for a few weeks now.
Deduplication is an important enabling technology for the data center. Diligent, EMC’s former Israeli lab, is a dedupe leader. It’s not clear what this will mean for IBM competitors HDS, Sun and Overland that are licensing Diligent’s technology today.
There may be a bit of scrambling as the music stops on the dedupe round of techno musical chairs.
Categories: Company Profiles · Datacenter · Industry trends
Tagged: deduplication, Diligent, HDS, IBM, Moshe Yanai, musical chairs, Overland, Sun
Moshe Yanai and connection makes this intriguing
Byte and Switch says IBM is looking at acquiring Diligent, which includes what was EMC’s Israeli lab. The interesting connection is Moshe Yanai, who engineered the recent purchase of Israeli-based XIV a few months ago.
An added incentive for IBM is that they have been relatively quiet about deduplication, which is Diligent’s forte.
Update: Storagezilla adds some color on Diligent, EMC and IBM.
Categories: Company Profiles · Datacenter
Tagged: Byte and Switch, deduplication, Diligent, IBM, Israel, Moshe Yanai, storage, XIV
IBM acquires XIV: storage technology for a Web 2.0 world
Moshe Yanai, the man who invented the Symmetrix (and therefore EMC) decades ago, has created a game-changing storage solution at XIV, his 5 year-old startup. IBM thinks so too, it seems. They announced today that they had acquired the company.
Enterprise Strategy Group was big on XIV even before IBM announced they would acquire them. Who couldn’t like rebuilding a 1 TB drive in less than 30 minutes? An innovative massively parallel storage architecture creates all kinds of rule-busting capabilities (near-infinite scalability, high performance with SATA drives) that are only available today in massive, custom-built internet data centers.
Categories: Business Solutions · Company Profiles · Datacenter · Industry trends
Tagged: 1 TB, Enterprise Strategy Group, IBM, Moshe Yanai, Steve Duplessie, XIV
