Avago executives said they expect the deal to close in the second quarter of 2014, and the combined company could generate more than $5 billion in annual revenue.
Friday, December 13, 2013
Avago Technologies joins enterprise storage fray with LSI acquisition
Avago Technologies became the new kid on the storage component block this week when it spent $6.6 billion to acquire LSI Corp.
Slack: Decoding common virtual data storage terms
Storage technology has its own language. Marketing departments and product managers invent words and vitiate common phrases to describe how storage technology works and how it advances an organization's goals. Storage virtualization vendors may be guiltier of this than others because the way they decouple hardware and software is often difficult to explain.
Sometimes we get carried away, and many times it's difficult to decipher virtual data storage terms, especially when you are comparing technologies or systems before a big purchasing decision. Just what is a "value-added, impactful solution" anyway?
In this podcast, analyst firm Storage Switzerland LLC's senior analyst Eric Slack breaks down some common virtual data storage terms to help you decode sales and marketing gibberish and determine which technology and product is right for your environment.
Monday, December 9, 2013
OCZ bankruptcy may yet ignite bidding war
Industry experts see solid-state drive (SSD) vendor OCZ Technology Group Inc.'s bankruptcy and pending asset sale to Toshiba as a continuation of the consolidation that has gone on throughout the past year rather than a bad omen for the flash business.
"I don't consider this anything but business as usual," said Arun Taneja, the founder and consulting analyst of the storage industry consulting firm Taneja Group.
Top five solid-state flash storage news stories of 2013
What better to describe 2013 than "The Year of Flash"? This topic generated many of the year's top storage news stories, from advanced technology announcements to market changing acquisitions.
And that trend looks as if it will continue in 2014 as we move beyond the question of "Should I use flash in my data center?" to "Where should I use flash in my data center?" and "What kind of flash should I use?"
Analyzing the almost staggering amount of activity around flash during the past year, we've culled our top five flash story lines from 2013.
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