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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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The Risk of Over Promising and Under Delivering with Hybrid Storage Arrays
As Pure embarks for Europe this week (VMworld Barcelona and Structure Amsterdam, hope to see you there!), an analogy for the inherent risk in hybrid storage occurred to me. First, imagine that you’re expecting to travel internationally by ship, but then find that you’ve been upgraded to a flight, and will get there in a…
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“Xtrem” Thunder in the Forecast for EMC?
The rumors have been confirmed—EMC (NYSE:EMC) is indeed acquiring XtremIO. Like Pure Storage, XtremIO is crafting a next-generation storage array, purpose built for 100% solid-state flash. Gartner recently forecast that this all-flash array market is going to reach $4B by 2015. It’s not at all surprising that EMC wants a piece of the action. Our…
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