Trends Driving Storage Vendor Consolidation and Integrated IT Stacks

The Vblock phenomenon of integrated stacks has begun to make its presence felt, and we’re seeing a wave of storage vendor consolidation, with Dell, EMC and IBM all making significant recent acquisitions. These vendors want to consolidate to improve their offerings in a world in which customers are seeking storage efficiency by virtualising servers, buying storage that supports both file and block access storage, and starting to store data in the cloud.