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Dell and Compellent: The Implications

By Tony Asaro on Dec 15, 2010 | In Data Management | 2 feedbacks »

I believe the impact of Dell and Compellent will be significant. What Dell probably knows that many of their competitors are unaware of is how good the Compellent storage system is and how loyal their customers and channel partners are. There are… more »
Tags: 3par, acquisition, compellent, dell, emc, equallogic, isilon, netapp, storage

What's In Store 2011

By Tony Asaro on Dec 1, 2010 | In Data Management | 2 feedbacks »

How do we top 2010 in the storage universe in the coming year? 3PAR and Isilon were the late-2010 big stories with their multi-billion dollar acquisitions. The battle in the storage arena is afoot and there is a great deal at stake. Storage is argu… more »
Tags: 3par, cloud storage, compellent, dell, emc, file storage, hds, hp, iscsi, nas, netapp, oracle, san, storage

The Future of Storage

By Tony Asaro on Oct 21, 2010 | In Data Management | 2 feedbacks »

After many years of meeting with IT professionals and storage vendors, presenting in seminars and trade shows, and conducting research, it’s pretty clear to me that storage is still very confusing for users. It’s not really the complexity of the technol… more »
Tags: 3par, cloud storage, compellent, data domain, dedupe, dell, emc, equallogic, ibm, iscsi, nas, netapp, san, storage

Dell and 3PAR = No Brainer

By Tony Asaro on Aug 16, 2010 | In Business Issues for IT, Storage | Send feedback »

Updated August 23! HP jumps into the mix. Bottom line - HP sells a ton of storage in both the midrange and high-end environments. But the EVA is old in the tooth and they OEM their high-end from HDS. It will be interesting to see where each of these… more »
Tags: 3par, dell, emc, equallogic, fibre channel, ibm, iscsi, storage, storage area networks

Voices of IT - our new website and service

By Tony Asaro on Oct 26, 2009 | In Business Issues for IT | Send feedback »

We just launched our new site - Voices of IT. The first phase of this site includes interviews that the INI Group (my company) conducted with different IT professionals about specific products. Included in this list are solutions from 3PAR, BlueArc, Data Domain, FalconStor, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, Verdiem and VMware. You can hear the interviews via mp3 podcasts, read the interviews via PDF or listen to the individual answers to the various questions. more »
Tags: 3par, bluearc, data domain, falconstor, hds, hitachi data systems, hp, it professionals, lefthand, verdiem, vmware, voices of it