Will Symantec Corp. break up?
Speculation that Symantec will split off its storage/backup products from its security products is nothing new, but it probably makes more sense than ever considering today’s acquisition climate. The old Veritas product portfolio would make a nice addition to Microsoft or Oracle if they want to shell out for it. Who will win the race to the cloud? This starting line has more entrants than the Boston marathon. The major vendors are pitching everything as cloud, while startups see a cloud-only focus as a head-start to viability. Customer reaction to cloud storage will likely look a lot different a year from now. Is this the year for solid-state storage, storage clouds, primary deduplication and/or Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)? This is actually four questions, or the same question asked about four technologies that have had proponents in the data storage industry pushing them for several years now. They will all get a look from enterprises in 2011, and be judged on their maturity an
