Collateral Considerations If You Were/Are A Nirvanix Customer

Current Overview The Wall Street Journal reported that Nirvanix announced on September 16, 2013 that it would be shutting down its cloud storage service at the end of September. While most of the focus has been on the impact it has placed on Nirvanix’s customers to...

Salesforce.com and Workday

There sure has been a lot of partnerships announced by major software companies. First there was the Oracle-Microsoft alliance (which I admit sounds like something out of the book 1984), then the Oracle-Salesforce.com bromance. Yesterday (September 18. 2013),...

Brief: Flash Is Hot – WD Buys Virident

Current Overview On September 9, 2013, Western Digital (WD), under its wholly-owned subsidiary HGST (that Western Digital acquired in 2011) announced its definitive merger agreement with Virident, a provider of server-side flash storage solutions. The transaction is...

Neuralytix Comments: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire WhipTail

On September 10, 2013, Cisco announced to acquire the privately held company, Whiptail, a vendor of solid state storage systems. Neuralytix believes that this acquisition is very serious about taking on the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) market. Whiptail had...