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Building the Next Great Storage Company
The two questions I get asked most are “Who is going to buy Pure?” and “When are you going to sell?” While answering can be fun, I must admit I’m not a huge fan of these questions. They seem a diversion from the important stuff—like making our customers and partners more successful, and making our product and…
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EMC XtremIO: On Your Mark, Get Set, … Beta.
This morning Pure Storage’s primary competitor EMC (NYSE: EMC) re-announced the Beta program for the XtremIO storage array with general availability expected in the 3rd quarter of 2013. We had expected the general availability announcement at EMC World in May, but suspect EMC wanted to get out ahead of other flash news. The announcement answered…
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Welcome to the all-flash array party NetApp, but the future is already here!
We here at Pure would be remiss if we didn’t offer a few thoughts on NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) announcing plans to enter the all-flash array category as Project Mars morphs into the FlashRay sometime in 2014. After flirting with a couple of potential acquisitions, NetApp ultimately stayed in house—putting some of the WAFL band back together to tackle the impending shift from mechanical…
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Top Ten Enterprise Tech Predictions for 2013, Part 2
This post is, of course, a continuation of our top ten enterprise tech predictions for 2013. The first five predictions and the set up can be found here. Please also note that some more specific thoughts on the next year in the nascent and booming flash storage market can be found here. Now here are our top…
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Top Ten Enterprise Tech Predictions for 2013, Part 1
For the tech industry, these are heady times indeed: The transformation in the enterprise technology landscape over the next ten years will rival that of the mid to late nineties due to the advent of the World-wide Web and prolifferation of the Internet. (I’d love to say I saw this coming, but the reality is…
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