By Greg Roody.
News wise, this week has been a bloggers paradise. Not so much for vendor bloggers like me (though I am sneaking this one in – 
), but if anyone doubts that Cloud computing and Cloud Storage have arrived, are viable, and will become a real force in the market, they haven’t really been paying attention.
Lets start with the 3PAR highlights. Three companies approached 3PAR at more or less the same time and 2 are now in a heated bidding war. The eventual sale price could far exceed $2B. And what does 3PAR have that is worth that kind of attention? They have a highly scalable, easy to manage, highly efficient storage platform that is being snapped up by Cloud Service Providers and which is being well accepted in Enterprise accounts. Clearly HP and DELL believe that the HW that provides the basis for Cloud Storage environments is critical to their future. Cloud Storage is indeed very healthy and its future is bright.
On the other front, VMworld kicks off next week and promises to be a vPaloozah. The hype/buzz has been building for weeks and lots of vendors will be making announcements – almost all of them having something to do with Cloud Computing and Storage. It should be a fun week to watch and listen. Unfortunately I have other committments and can’t attend this year (first time in 4 years), but my heart will be there. It’s one of my favorite shows.
So the net effect of all of this is that we seem to be at that mystical tipping point. All the concern over whether “Cloud” is real, whether it is mature, and whether it is affordable, will quickly fall away as early adopters lead to innovators and then full deployments. Then, the hard work begins. Should be a fun ride.
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