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2014A Year inReview

During the past 12 months the storage, networking, and computing space has been flooded with big dollar investments in new technologies none of us were even dreaming about only a few years ago. We’ve gathered some of the ho�est news (of both successes and casualties) for an overview of where IT has brought us this year.

January 17IBM Releases FlashSystem 840Technology: All-flash storageFeatures: On-premise, improved data protection, MicroLatencyImpact: IBM is now set to compete with all-flash storage startups.

February 22Apple Datacenter ExpansionSize: 14,256 �.² additional building Location: Maiden, NC Impact: The expansion is on an existing 500,000 �.² facility accompanied by the largest privately-owned solar form in the country.

March 6Coho Announces GA of DataStreamTechnology: Web-Scale StorageImpact: Coho Data’s DataStream 1000 offers high performance, hybrid flash scale-out storage for enterprises.

January 22VMware Buys Airwatch Technology: Mobility Investment: $1.54 billionImpact: Enables VMware to focus on a mobility strategy and grow its share in end user computing

February 24IBM Acquires CloudantTechnology: Cloud storageNoSQLInvestment: $2 billionImpact: A step further towards the cloud using Cloudant’s collaboration with Apache Couch DB

March 19Cloudera Raises $160 MillionTechnology: Big DataInvestors: Google VenturesMichael DellImpact: Validates the relevance of Hadoop adoption among enterprises.

Q1

April 1Heartbleed Bug DiscoveredImpact: All users (both enterprises and their customers) of the OpenSSL so�ware are potential targets. Everyone spends precious time changing passwords and contemplating what could possibly be next.

May 23HP Invests in OpenStackTechnology: OpenStack Investment: $1 billion over 2 yearsImpact: Following in the footsteps of IBM, HP is pu�ing big bucks towards the “Linux for the cloud” technology, rebranded as Helion.

May 5EMC Acquires DSSDTechnology: Flash storage, Big DataInvestment: UndisclosedImpact:DSSD’s server-based flash enables EMC to offer much improved data accessibility to complement the XtremIO flash array.

June 16VMware Releases NSX PricingPricing: Perpetual license: $5996/CPU Term license: $34/VM Impact: Available to resellers for the first time with a vision of eliminating consumers’ need for new networking hardware.

Q2

July 23Fusion iO Acquired by SandiskTechnology: Flash storageInvestment: $1.1 billion Impact: Expands Sandisks flash hardware and so�ware offerings, supported by Fusion iO’s flash chip technology.

August 26Seagate Ships First 8TB Hard Drive Technology: Hard disk drive storage Claim: Best wa�s/GB rating in enterprise storage Impact: Doubles the 4TB hard drive capabilities that were considered revolutionary only a couple of years ago.

September 17NetApp Announces FlashRayTechnology: All-flash storageImpact: The company’s all-flash portfolio is filled out (alongside the EF and FAS series) and ready to compete with startups as well as EMC’s XtremIO.

August 25VMware announces EVO: RailTechnology: Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCIA) Pricing: UndisclosedImpact: The first of a family of ‘Evolutionary’ Hyper-converged Infrastructure offerings that boost the relevance of So�ware-defined solutions.

September 16Docker Raises $40 millionTechnology: ContainersInvestors: Sequoia InvestorsImpact: A month a�er collaborating with VMware, Docker containerization is funded as both a disruptive and complementary technology to virtualization.

September 24Google Builds $770 Million Data Center Size: 4,736,120 �²Location: Eemshaven, The Netherlands Impact: The facility has direct connection to Internet hubs London and Amsterdam and is run on a variety of renewable resources.

Q3

October 6HP SplitDivision: Consumer vs. Enterprise Impact: Frees up money for R&D and opens up many more opportunities for R&D and partnerships.

October 27NetApp Buys SteelStore from RiverbedTechnology: Cloud storage, BackupInvestment: $80 million Impact: SteelStore is saved from failure and NetApp expands its portfolio with hybrid cloud backup support.

October 31SalesForce Opens New UK Data CenterTo be followed by new data centers in France and Germany.Impact: Reflects the global shi� to cloud computing and a growing number of European SalesForce clients.

October 22EMC Takes Over VCEImpact: Cisco remains with only 10%

stake in the joint venture while EMC has hold of 90%, with the intention of speeding up VCE’s decision making and innovation.

October 28EMC Announces Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Technology: Hybrid Cloud, ITaaS Features: Vblock technologyImpact: Following a triple acquisition of Cloudscaling, Maginatics, and Spanning, EMC now has a hybrid cloud offering with pre-defined services to virtualization.

Q4

December 12Coho Data Announces GA of v2.0Features: Site to Site ReplicationImpact: Customers can protect their storage from major disasters with Site to site replication at the VM level (SiteProtect) that is easy to deploy, simple to use and adds no performance overhead.