Storage suppliers: Who reached for the stars, who burned up in orbit?

Storage year in review, part 3 Winners, losers, refugees, death, near-death, and a miraculous recovery ... all these were things that characterised the year for storage suppliers in 2015. They experienced earthquake-level changes as the movement of tectonic storage plates like flash, the cloud, server-based storage and activist investors shook old assumptions to the core.

Cash gushed from VCs into startups, and CEOs came and went in a year of titanic changes climaxing with EMC running (or about to run) into the arms of Dell in ... but there was more to come.

Let’s start with mergers and acquisitions, and even some de-mergers. Here's a list of some of the events in the year:

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