#110 – Storage Vendor Consolidations & Acquisitions

#110 – Storage Vendor Consolidations & Acquisitions

Chris EvansGeneral

We’ve started to see the consolidation of storage vendors as some startups and long-term players in the market get acquired. Is the reason for this buying spree one of positive growth, or a defensive position to maintain survival? Chris and Martin discuss the issues and the vendors doing the buying. Who’s been buying? Violin Systems acquired part of X-IO (specifically the ICE) products as that company changed focus to their edge device (Axellio). DDN acquired Tintri and Nexenta. StorCentric, founded from Drobo and Nexsan has acquired Retrospect and Vexata. Are we seeing a move to …

#85 – Storage for Home and Homelabs

#85 – Storage for Home and Homelabs

Chris EvansGarbage Collection

This week Chris and Martin discuss the subject of storage for home and homelabs.  With so much content being personally generated these days, is it better to store data on local hardware or use the public cloud?  It turns out that many of the home storage devices we’re familiar with are pushing more to SMB and enterprise-class features. Alternatively, if you’re like Martin, you could build your own solution from drives, Linux and an ATX chassis.  A quick check online shows both HDDs and SSDs for sale.  Are users being careful about wiping their data …

#69 – IP EXPO 2018 – Cloudian, E8 Storage, StorCentric and Zerto

#69 – IP EXPO 2018 – Cloudian, E8 Storage, StorCentric and Zerto

Chris EvansGuest Speakers

This is one of two podcasts, recorded live at IP EXPO 2018 in London.  The format is slightly different from what we’ve done in the past, in that we have four short 10-minute interviews with storage vendors.  Each talks about their company, products and industry problem being solved. The four guests are: Steve Blow, Technology Evangelist with Zerto Neil Stobart, VP Global Systems Engineering at Cloudian Julie Herd, Director of Technical Marketing at E8 Storage Read Fenner, VP Global Sales for Nexsan and Drobo & Mark Walker, Channel Sales Director (Nexsan) from StorCentric These interviews …