A perfect storm for IBM in the enterprise storage space?
There are a lot of startups in the storage world with mostly excellent technology, all struggling to break out. IBM may have scored a coup with its acquisition of XIV by providing the business scale and market reach to propel Nextra into mainstream adoption.
IBM’s marketing plus XIV’s technology, coupled with the fact that IBM doesn’t have EMC’s Symmetrix business to cannibalize, creates a market-changing Pivotal Moment in the enterprise storage space. If IBM can move fast, they can achieve the market success in this segment that all of those startups mostly just gret to dream about.
Read what Robin Harris has to say on this.
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