Pure Storage and Nutanix – the new incumbents
Though Pure Storage and Nutanix can now be regarded as incumbents, they still behave like growth-hungry startups.
Nutanix went public in 2016 following Pure's 2015 IPO. Since then Nutanix has...
Nutanix simplifies product set into five bundles
Nutanix is reshaping its product set into five groups that run across public, private, and hybrid clouds with a consistent operating model and simplified packaging, metering, and pricing.
This move...
Server fleet management less complex and nebulous with Nebulon
Nebulon is getting customer traction with its server fleet management server control cards and cloud management, as customers realise they can save big bucks by buying servers integrated with...
Storage news ticker – January 21
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Managed infrastructure network systems provider 11:11 Systems has completed the acquisition of iland, a global cloud service provider of secure and compliant hosting for infrastructure (IaaS), disaster recovery (DRaaS),...
Diamanti’s CEO is on a hiring rush
Diamanti, led by CEO Chris Hickey who was appointed seven months ago, has hired 36 sales and engineering people since he took up the post.
The firm originally supplied hyper-converged...
Storage news ticker – December 22
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iXsystems has introduced TrueCharts, a first app catalog for TrueNAS SCALE, its scale-out storage and hyperconverged infrastructure offering. It includes Kubernetes for deploying containerised (e.g. Docker) applications. Many apps...
Predictions for 2022
’Tis the season for predictions — usually vendor predictions — and they always seem to predict, astoundingly, that demand for the vendor’s products will rise because the vendor’s strategic...
Storage news ticker – December 1
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AWS has announced four new storage offerings:
S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval is a storage class that provides retrieval access in milliseconds for archive data — now available as an access...
Dell has record quarter, but flattish storage lets the side down
Dell’s quarterly revenues rose 21 per cent year-on-year to a record $28.4 billion, but storage revenues were anaemic with a mere 0.9 per cent rise to $3.89 billion.
This was...
Nutanix spent more money than it earned in latest quarter, but no one’s worried
Nutanix reached a negative landmark, with losses exceeding revenues in its latest quarter, but financial analysts are happy with its progress.
Revenues were $378.52 million in its first fiscal 2022...
Gartner’s 2021 Hyperconverged Magic Quadrant: Leaders unchanged, bye-bye DataCore, hello Visionary StorMagic
All the action is centred down on the bottom-left in Gartner’s latest hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software magic quadrant (MQ).
This annual MQ rates HCI suppliers on low-to-high “completeness of vision“...
iXsystems’ open-sorcery – scale-out file/block/object HCI software
TrueNAS SCALE is an open-source and scale-out hyperconverged infrastructure software system announced by iXsystems, which has more than a million software deployments and more than 10EB managed by its...