Comments on: 5 Cloud Software Vendors Dell Should Buy

By: Top 5 Lists Featuring Joyent — Includes Bonus List! « Joyeur

Top 5 Lists Featuring Joyent — Includes Bonus List! « Joyeur — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:31:07 +0000

[...] 5 Cloud Software Vendors Dell Should Buy Last and most exclusive, Derrick Harris gives us a nod as a business fit for our friends at Dell [...]

By: As Teradata Plans to Buy Aster, What’s Left?: Cloud Computing News «

As Teradata Plans to Buy Aster, What’s Left?: Cloud Computing News « — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:52:07 +0000

[...] play. Through a partnership with Aster, it met that need for its customers, but my colleague Derrick was pushing hard for Dell to snap up Aster and own its own data warehousing and analytics play. By the way, you can see [...]

By: After a Big Quarter, Dell Should Make a Big Data Buy: Cloud Computing News «

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:30:51 +0000

[...] you’ll recall, I suggested that Dell look at five companies — Appistry, Aster Data Systems, DynamicOps, Joyent and Univa — that can help it add [...]

By: HP Makes its Big Data Move and Buys Vertica: Cloud Computing News «

HP Makes its Big Data Move and Buys Vertica: Cloud Computing News « — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:34:31 +0000

[...] out in the cold as the only major server and storage vendor without a database offering. I’ve suggested that Dell remedy this by purchasing its OEM partner Aster Data Systems, whose massively parallel nCluster database software would give Dell a data warehouse product that [...]

By: ophirk

ophirk — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 06:23:19 +0000

Maybe Dell should start with a cloud solution targeted around small enterprises. This has always been Dell’s traditional strength. Simple, cheap, easy solution for the mid-market who don’t want to learn Amazon’s API but need their custom applications to continue working.