In our introduction this week, Marc comments on comments that could exclude himself from commenting on what he’s actually working on at Quaddra Software
We dig a little further on the Object Storage Market research paper rom IDC that we touched on last week. Where TheRegister found that EMC’s presence was shrinking, this apparently is caused by the fact that IDC only allows one product per research category and EMC chose to switch the focus from Atmos to ECS. Follow up article 1 and article 2.
Speaking of EMC, apparently Eliott Management, the aggressive investment company that wants to split up the Federation, has now kissed and made up with Joe Tucci (for a while).
The mainframe is back! IBM has build a new beast (Z13) that either looks as a black Tardis or a portal to the dark ages. We get a heavy discussion with loads of different (opposite) opinions here. Is this going to be the ultimate HyperConverged Mainframe? Definitely something to follow!
Following up in mergers & acquisitions we see two new rounds of fundings coming into the NoSQL companies Basho & MongoDB. Why are these types of databases so popular and are they eating at Oracle’s market share?
This week at Citrix Summit the company announced the acquisition of distributed storage player Sanbolic. It’s fair to say that no-one really saw that coming and that all hosts this week had second thoughts if Citrix even understands storage enough to pull this off.
A final news item in this area is NexGen storage being spun-off from SanDisk, that in itself got it through the FusionIO acquisition. Although these are not people that are new to the market (founded Lefhand before) or a new product (same product since 2008), Marc and Gabriel don’t see a fortunate future in this overly saturated market.
Special feature this week is another Captain Dogger episode
074: Live from Cisco Live
073: VSAN Kubernetes and Gaming
072: EVO FAIL
071: Is Walmart Labs the new Bell Labs
070: The Sky is Falling
069: Machine Forgetting
068: Somebody has a new job!
067: Double-nutted
066: Stickers and Tattoos
065: Cloud Fried Chicken
064: The converged compost pile
063: Cloud Wars
062: Meet my new girlfriend she's called Docker
061: Docker Straps on Double D
060: Of Clouds and Containers
059: Halloween Tech Mashup
058: HP death by a million cuts
057: It's Gonna Be Hell for Dell
056x: The Silent H in DELL
056: The Pure IPO
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