The storage space has been a very exciting space over recent years. There have been so many new start-ups and new innovations, that it becomes difficult to keep track sometimes. More recently, there has been a lot of news around mergers, acquisitions and IPOs in the storage industry. It got me thinking about a lot of the changes we have seen over the past 3-4 years in the storage market. Just for my own interest, I went back over many of my blogs, and the various conversations I had with people at various VMworld events and VMUG meetings, and tried to see where a lot of these companies/products are now, and what they are currently doing. Now, I am not going to mention every single vendor here. I’m simply trying to highlight the ones that were acquired or merged or indeed IPO’ed (and in some cases are no longer with us) during this period.
Amplidata – acquired by HGST/Western Digital (March 2015)
Coraid – no longer exists, closed down on April 2015
CleverSafe – acquired by IBM (November 2015)
DELL/EMC – EMC merger with DELL, announced in August 2015
Dot Hill – acquired by Seagate (October 2015)
DSSD – acquired by EMC (May 2014)
Flashsoft – acquired by SanDisk ( February 2012)
Fusion-io – acquired by SanDisk (June 2014)
Greenbytes – acquired by Oracle (May 2014)
HP – split in two, storage now in HP Enterprise (HPE) – October 2015
Inktank (Ceph) – acquired by RedHat (April 2014)
Pure Storage – IPO (October 2015)
NexGen Storage – acquired by Fusion-io, then SanDisk, then spun out again. [Update] NexGen acquired by Pivot3 (January 2015)
Nutanix – planned IPO, announced in December 2015
Nimble Storage – IPO (December 2013)
ProximalData – acquired by Samsung (November 2014)
SanDisk – acquired by Western Digital (October 2015)
ScaleIO – acquired by EMC (July 2013)
Skyera – acquired by HGST/Western Digital (December 2014)
SolidFire – acquired by NetApp, announced in December 2015
Texas Memory Systems (TMS) – acquired by IBM (October 2012)
TwinStrata – acquired by EMC (July 2014)
Violin Memory – IPO (September 2013)
Virsto – acquired by VMware (February 2013)
VMware Virtual Storage Appliance – end of life announcement (April 2014)
Virident – acquired by HGST/Western Digital (September 2013)
Whiptail – acquired by Cisco (October 2013). Invicta end of life announcement (July 2015)
XtremIO – acquired by EMC (May 2012)
Those are the ones I could think of but I’m sure I have missed some. Please leave a comment if I did. And yes, I know EMC also bought Isilon, HDS bought BluArc, HP bought 3PAR, and DELL bought Compellent and EqualLogic. But how far back should I go? I think 2012 is plenty far enough, or the list would be endless.
Another company, who has been dormant for most on 2015 but will remain nameless in this post, has left cryptic tweets about their status: #stealth #gamechanger If you know who I am talking about, you’re guess is as good as mine on that one.
I’m also pretty sure that we are going to see a lot more changes in this space in 2016. Interesting times.
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