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IDC has ranked IBM as the top supplier of Software-Defined Storage Platforms (SDS-P) in its second quarter 2014 Worldwide Storage Software Qview survey. IDC says SDS-P is ”a new functional market added to the total storage software market that covers block, file, object, and/or hyper-converged software offerings that enable …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Are you happy with this news ?

    Or, Big Blue's name is enough to suck the mojo out of anything exciting ?

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    1. tony2heads
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      @Anonymous Coward

      'Exciting' is not necessarily good for storage; 'reliable', 'flexible', 'cheap' are.

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        Re: @Anonymous Coward

        Maybe you are confusing *exiciting*(AFA) with *sensational*(iPhone)!

        Ask a hardcore systems engineer - they will find most tough storage projects very "exciting"!

        & Ask any CIO - "Reliable" and "Cheap" are so *exciting* that they start looking for someone "flexible".

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