Why Is Storage So Hot? Cisco Provides a Clue.

The New York Times (Nov 26 2010) Storage

1. In March of 2009, Cisco launched its Unified Computing System, or UCS for short. It signaled to other data center equipment vendors that the separation between servers, networking, and storage was finished. With that single move, the industry set forth on a course to consolidate to integrated solutions, a trend we are in the middle of today. Major vendors, sensing the integration trend, set off on an acquisition spree that sparked several multi-bullion dollar storage deals. This may be because the server roadmap is well understood, and highly commoditized. We are likely to get more cores, and more virtual machines in servers for a long time to come. (Read Full Article)

   Bookmark or Share this article

Login to comment.