Comments on: Big Blue…..Big Borg! http://blog.nigelpoulton.com/big-bluebig-borg/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed with nigel poulton Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:37:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Chuck http://blog.nigelpoulton.com/big-bluebig-borg/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Chuck Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:00:03 +0000 http://blogs.rupturedmonkey.com/?p=24#comment-8 I have to stop choking long enough to reply to Ilja’s comments on EMC and VMWare. While I agree the VMWare is a fine product with great leadership in the Intel space let’s not forget that IBM (or was it Amdahl?) really started virtualization on the mainframe and IBM has continued to expand that technology to Unix (AIX and pSeries) and OS/400. Let’s also include storage virtualization, over 2,000 SVC customers and 15 PB of virtualized storage is somewhat of an accomplishment by IBM as well as tape with the VTS. So, yes EMC made a great purchase and has done well by VMWare but I am not ready to place the crown of virtualization leadership upon their heads. I have to stop choking long enough to reply to Ilja’s comments on EMC and VMWare. While I agree the VMWare is a fine product with great leadership in the Intel space let’s not forget that IBM (or was it Amdahl?) really started virtualization on the mainframe and IBM has continued to expand that technology to Unix (AIX and pSeries) and OS/400. Let’s also include storage virtualization, over 2,000 SVC customers and 15 PB of virtualized storage is somewhat of an accomplishment by IBM as well as tape with the VTS. So, yes EMC made a great purchase and has done well by VMWare but I am not ready to place the crown of virtualization leadership upon their heads.

]]> By: Ilja Coolen http://blog.nigelpoulton.com/big-bluebig-borg/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Ilja Coolen Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:02:51 +0000 http://blogs.rupturedmonkey.com/?p=24#comment-7 It also works the other way around. Just have a look at the Document Management field. EMC does have e bit of a head start on document managment after having bought Documentum a while back. IBM is now catchin' up on EMC by incorperating FileNet. Also in the Virtualization field something similar is happening. EMC does have a great advantage due to VMWare. Which is a great product (to my oppinion). This is a bit why IBM tries to promote it's support on the Xen development. I sometimes wonder how things would look like in about ten years. How many vendors will remain alive, and which ones will vanish.... It also works the other way around. Just have a look at the Document Management field.
EMC does have e bit of a head start on document managment after having bought Documentum a while back. IBM is now catchin’ up on EMC by incorperating FileNet.
Also in the Virtualization field something similar is happening. EMC does have a great advantage due to VMWare. Which is a great product (to my oppinion). This is a bit why IBM tries to promote it’s support on the Xen development.

I sometimes wonder how things would look like in about ten years. How many vendors will remain alive, and which ones will vanish….

]]> By: mackem http://blog.nigelpoulton.com/big-bluebig-borg/comment-page-1/#comment-6 mackem Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:27:19 +0000 http://blogs.rupturedmonkey.com/?p=24#comment-6 Thanks for pointing that out Mark. With me not being an EMC person I guess I missed that one in the million or so acquisitions EMC have made recently ;-) Thanks for pointing that out Mark. With me not being an EMC person I guess I missed that one in the million or so acquisitions EMC have made recently ;-)

]]> By: Mark http://blog.nigelpoulton.com/big-bluebig-borg/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Mark Sat, 29 Jul 2006 22:27:19 +0000 http://blogs.rupturedmonkey.com/?p=24#comment-5 EMC already owns it's own Unix and had it's own server platform. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DG/UX" rel="nofollow">DG/UX</a> and Aviion were part of the DG acquisition. In the era of commodity servers and Linux there's no point in being in that market though. EMC already owns it’s own Unix and had it’s own server platform. DG/UX and Aviion were part of the DG acquisition.

In the era of commodity servers and Linux there’s no point in being in that market though.

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