back to article Big Blue 'made a move to buy BlueArc'

HDS was prompted to buy BlueArc because IBM was making a move against the fast filer firm, or so a source says. Recall that big storage array shipper Hitachi Data Systems had a reseller agreement with BlueArc for some time, and that BlueArc uses HDS disk shelves as backing store behind its hardware-accelerated NAS heads. Then …

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  1. Michael Duke

    Not sure about that....

    If that was the play why bring out the Unified Gateway for the Storwize V7000 this week?

    That is not a product that was produced in the few weeks between HDS buying BlueArc and now, also BlueArc is closer to a High Performance SONAS competitor than N Series really.

    Just does not stack up for me.

  2. PracticalApplications
    Holmes

    You did see the IBM V7000 Unified Disk System (filer) announcement?

    http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/disk/storwize_v7000/

    Realizing that it's a big industry, the Reg can't follow it all :)

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