Comments on: Has the Consolidation of Cloud Storage Started?

By: Cloud Storage: Two Days, Three Startups, $30 Million: Cloud «

Cloud Storage: Two Days, Three Startups, $30 Million: Cloud « — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:48:28 +0000

[...] NetApp continued a trend of scale-out acquisitions by purchasing Bycast. In the past few months, IBM bought Storwize and Overland Storage bought MaxiScale. Lately, talk has been of Isilon Systems marketing itself [...]

By: Derrick Harris

Derrick Harris — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:06:19 +0000

I think it has begun on a couple of levels. On one hand, we have acquisitions like this and NetApp buying Bycast. On the other, we have former VC darling ParaScale struggling to keep the lights on. Unless it recovers, there will be one less vendor.

There was quite a bit of cloud-storage funding over the past few years, so I think it's safe to assume there will be more acquisitions and/or bankruptcies (not necessarily in that order) to come.

By: Niraj

Niraj — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:51:42 +0000

When Storage becomes a commodity , how do you differentiate.

Look at what google is doing. its Prediction API and Big Query API will depend on Google Storage. Storage will be the payment leg- but its crowd puller will be its APIS’

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/05/bigquery-and-prediction-api-get-more.html