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Storage analyst Deni Connor focuses on storage, application and infrastructure management in this twice-weekly newsletter.
When storage and server vendor Rackable acquired SGI recently, no one expected the company would take the name of a flagging vendor. But that is exactly what happened – Rackable became Silicon Graphics International Corp. this week.
The new SGI will keep Rackable's CEO Mark Barrenechea and most of SGI's employees. It expects to cut 10% of the combined companies' workforce.
Even though Rackable had to spend more for SGI than it originally anticipated – from $25 million to $42.5 million -- the company got a variety of server, workstation and storage equipment from a company once known for the strength of its graphics processing and high-performance computers.
For now, Rackable (wait, I mean SGI) will keep the SGI branded InfiniteStorage products and Rackable's OmniStor external drive arrays, as well as its Network Storage Servers and Intel-based Solid State Drives.
For the future however there appears to be a lot of overlap between Rackable's and SGI's storage that will have to be worked out. In 2008, Rackable simplified its storage products somewhat – it shed its RapidScale clustered file system appliances.
To add further confusion, Rackable – er, SGI – will use the SGI stock symbol – even though SGI will be a subsidiary of Rackable Systems. You can read about the Old-SGI and New-SGI here, I hope you aren't totally confused now. I am.
Deni Connor is principal analyst for Storage Strategies NOW and host of both the Masters of Storage and Masters of Servers Solution Centers.
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