Neuralytix Views on NetApp’s Acquisition of SolidFire
Neuralytix provides its perspective on NetApp’s recent announcement that it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy SolidFire. Will this be a solid win for NetApp or a misfire?
SDI’s Lessons Learned
Introduction On Dec. 3, 2015, I moderated a “Top 10 Things About SDI” panel at the Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI) Summit in Santa Clara, CA. The panel discussion included IT company executives from IBM; Gridstore—a Silicon Valley hyperconverged systems...Making Business Sense with SSDs
SSDs provide performance factors at up to two orders of magnitude over the fastest rotating magnetic hard disk drives (HDDs). They are also one-tenth of the cost of HDDs per unit of performance.
The IPO clearly demonstrated that the market is strong, and demand is high, for solid-state storage companies that have focused on market leadership, marketing and reliability.
Software-Defined Leads to Business-Defined Storage
While only a few years ago, the idea of any application, anywhere, on any device, by any authorized user, seemed cumbersome at best, and utopian at worst; this same idea is now a reality, and something on which the progress of economies depend.
SDS forms the basis around which data and applications can be delivered in a holistic manner.
Neuralytix believes that the only way venture backed SDS vendors will succeed is through an acquisition by, or significant partnership with, an OEM.