Seagate down, Toshiba up in Q1 2019 HDD market share
Here is a snapshot of disk drive supplier market shares based on capacity for first 2019 quarter.
Western Digital - 45.8 per centSeagate - 40.9 per centToshiba - 13.3 per...
No Dell, our storage array is faster than yours – Infinidat
Infinidat today boasted it makes the fastest SAN array with the lowest latency and can prove it - albeit with its own test results.
The high-end array vendor used the...
Infinidat arrays go faster, play nice in hybrid clouds
Infinidat, the high-end array maker, today launched subscription programs, software with enhanced performance, extended array connectivity, and cloud-delivered array monitoring and analysis.
The company also signalled its intention to...
Weak disk drive demand hits Seagate’s third quarter
Seagate’s third fiscal 2019 quarter was hit by falling disk drive demand.
Revenues of $2.3bn ($2.8bn Q3, 2018) were 17.5 per cent lower and net income fell 488 per cent...
Dell EMC builds PowerProtect data protection platform
Dell Technologies World Dell EMC today announced new PowerProtect data protection hardware and software, along with an entry-level DP440 integrated data protection appliance.
In our opinion, PowerProtect has emerged as...
Dell EMC Isilon scale-out NAS clusters get performance, size and capacity boost
Dell Technologies World Dell EMC has added an Isilon H5600 general scale-out file storage cluster node, using a mix of SSDs and disk drives. It comes with a new...
Western Digital hit by weak demand and excess inventory
Western Digital was hit by weak disk drive demand and over-supply-induced flash price cuts in its third fiscal 2019 quarter. When will things improve for the flash, SSD and...
Your occasional storage digest featuring Huawei, InfiniteIO, Seagate, Spectrum Scale, StorONE and Tintri
Today is the opening day of the Dell Technologies World event in Las Vegas with wall-to-wall-and-back-again announcements. Before we dive in and get ‘Dell-ified’ here are a set of...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Azure, Pure Storage, Datrium, Hitachi Vantura and more
Today has been a blockbuster blizzard for enterprise storage news. Blocks & Files will guide you through the day's events with this handy round-up. Let's start with Microsoft.
Azure moves...
Dell and Cisco renew VxBlock wedding vows
Dell Technologies and Cisco have signed a multi-year extension to their VBlock partnership.
This is the converged infrastructure combo that integrates Dell EMC storage with Cisco UCS servers and Nexus...
Your Easter enterprise storage getaway
We have picked out four themes for you in our Easter enterprise storage roundup: flash arrays are taking over from disk arrays; backup to the cloud is booming,...
IBM storage hardware revenues fall for third quarter in a row
IBM’s storage hardware business fell in the first quarter, with poor DS8000 sales and weak mid-range performance to blame.
Within IBM's overall Q1, FY2019 results, storage hardware revenues were down...