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Remember Dot Hill, LSI/Engenio, and Xyratex when they were all independent? They made storage array hardware for the storage system suppliers such as Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, NetApp, Sun and others. Yes, it was that long ago. The business was hard because storage system suppliers could use contract manufacturers to make their own …

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  1. Liger

    Why didn't JBODs win?

    NetApp et al were ALWAYS software companies. Every time they tried to prove it, the market snapped at them and they went back to selling it in hardware containers. Some did weird hardware, but for the most part that stopped with the 3Par design in the 90s. Ask yourself: why did Veritas Foundation, generally speaking, lose to arrays the first time around? Why have they spent the last few years trying to sell their backup software in appliances?

    It's great that Seagate has a new plan, but that doesn't necessarily suggest a sea change in enterprise shopping.

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  2. Jan 0 Silver badge

    Enough with the unrelated pictures at the top, already!

    Give it a rest. Can you guys really not find appropriate pictures?

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