023: If This Then So What

disclaimer: this week is so full of non-news that we decided to name the title of the show and its artwork to the Secret Windows Phone App at the very end of it.

Introduction

• As Marc wasn’t with us last week he shares his thoughts on how the departure of David Scott at HP could jeopardize their whole storage vision.
• Openstack Vancouver session votings are open till February 23rd, off course Nigel is only interested in container sessions.

Last week's show

• VSPEX:BLUE - the reason it's partner focussed is that EMC has nothing to do with it. VSPEX means it's a blueprint architecture for VARs
• Pivotal open sourcing Greenplum & Hadoop activities
• HCI: & what about Microsoft?

News Topics

• IBM $1bln storage play - is this the new HP?
• FalconStor comes with a ‘new’ platform called FreeStore. Please don’t go read the press release.
• Violin Memory adding once more a couple of AFA boxes.

Stories

• Google is going to crash? YAWN
• Gartner & 95% of Private Clouds are failing; more YAWN! This is how a Gartner makes themselves irrelevant. 
• Cisco is going to crush Facebook & VMware and having fun doing it.
• Wallmart is running an over 100k cores Openstack environment. This ain’t no science project anymore!
• Isilon CTO jumps to Micron & Micron gets an alliance deal with Seagate.

M&A & Investments

• Nimboxx acquires Virtual Bridges, weird for a Co half a year out of stealth with barely $12mln funding.
• StorVisor comes out of stealth, gets $34mln round and changes name to 'springpath'.

And this week we have yet another Secret Windows Phone App!

[UPDATE] one of our listeners Jeff Wilson has a couple of things to say about our Microsoft HCI rants on his blog. He also took the conversation to our LinkedIN discussion group. Feel free to jump in on the conversation.