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Rod Boothby: "with Joyent, service providers can deploy Clouds in a matter of weeks"

published on 2010/11/26 by Yann Gourvennec

The last visit of our November press tour in the Silicon Valley took place in downtown San Francisco, with Joyent, an innovative company dedicated to Cloud deployments. Joyent is now planning to deploy in Europe, starting with France and the UK. A few important announcements were made at this meeting. We were greeted by Bryan Brown and Rod Boothby, respectively SVP Business Development and VP Global Business DevelopmentintroductionJoyent's mission statement is simple: "the best in class software for cloud operators". Joyent's main customers are public cloud operators. The company was founded in 2004 and the cloud offering was launched in 2006. In......

Rod Boothby: "with Joyent, service providers can deploy Clouds in a matter of weeks"

Emulex is driving convergence in the data centre

published on 2010/11/25 by Yann Gourvennec

Our last but one visit in the Silicon Valley on November 18 was with Emulex, and we were greeted by Steve Daheb, CMO & SVP business development and Shaun Walsh, VP Corporate Marketing backgrounder The Emulex vision is about the fact they realised that networks were about to converge for the first time: data networks used to be separated from storage networks. With the event of 10Gb ethernet we are seeing things converge. Emulex is a 30-year company founded in 1978, based in Costa Mesa, Calif. with 960 employees. Emulex works with HP, IBM and all other major companies. Emulex......

Emulex is driving convergence in the data centre

Blade Network Technologies: "IBM now has the network fabric to solve its clients’ pain-points in the data centre"

published on 2010/11/24 by Yann Gourvennec

Back in June 2010, we visited Blade Network Technologies, a Nortel spin-off which was doing exceptionally well in the data centre business by providing networking infrastructure and services within the data centre; a concept Vikram Mehta had described as being the "network fabric" of the data centre. We paid another visit to BNT on November 18 at their new premises in Santa Clara, but this time, BNT is no longer a start-up but an IBM company. So what has changed since then and what is in store for the market in that area?"Not much has changed in BNT Mehta said, apart from the......

Blade Network Technologies: "IBM now has the network fabric to solve its clients’ pain-points in the data centre"

a look into Isilon's "plug and play" approach to storage

published on 2010/11/23 by Yann Gourvennec

Our second presentation at Isilon's headquarters was dedicated to a closer look into Isilon's solution and the visit of its lab.Brett Hestsel, VP of engineering gave us a more detailed presentation of Isilon's distributed storage architecture. Brett has been with Isilon for 3 years, after working 10 years at DEC and various other high tech companies and has been in the industry for 30 years. Brett said that this is the first time in his carreer that clients come to him and tell him: "I love your product, you made me save a lot of money!"The real secret at Isilon is......

a look into Isilon's "plug and play" approach to storage

Sujal Patel: "EMC shares a joint ambition with Isilon"

published on 2010/11/22 by Yann Gourvennec

On November 17, as part of our November US press tour, we went outside of the Silicon Valley and took an early flight to Seattle in order to meet with the representatives of Isilon, a leading innovator in distributed storage for the past 10 years. We were greeted by Sujal Patel, President and Chief Executive Officer and founder of Isilon. One of the most exciting piece of news for today is the planned takeover of Isilon by EMC; even though this is not yet a closed deal at this moment, we were able to talk about that subject very openly with Sujal and his......

Sujal Patel: "EMC shares a joint ambition with Isilon"