Nebulon expands from storage focus to overall HCI infrastructure
Nebulon, which launched its hardware-assisted cloud-defined storage in June last year, has broadened its scope to become a smart infrastructure SaaS supplier providing a better hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) offering.
The...
Wish HCI could do more?Maybe it’s time for some disaggregation
Sponsored Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) ticks a lot of boxes for a lot of organizations. Recent figures from IDC showed growth in the overall converged systems market was static in...
Your occasional storage digest with Intel Ice Lake, composable systems and HCI
The big enterprise hardware event this week centres on Intel's Ice Lake Xeon processors, with HPE saying its Synergy composable system will support Ice Lake compute nodes. We envisage...
Your occasional storage digest with Lightbits Labs, Western Digital and Samsung
In this week's roundup Lightbits Labs strengthesm the enterprise credentials of its NVMe/TCP array; Western Digital says it needs fewer layers with its 3D NAND than others suppliers; ...
Dell extends HCI+hardware lead in Q4, and HPE is growing fast. But what about...
Dell extended its lead over Nutanix in branded hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) sales in the fourth 2020 quarter. Nutanix also fell back compared with VMware when measured by HCI software...
HPE sharpen’s SimpliVity edge backup
HPE has enabled updated its SimpliVity HCI operating system to protect data better and provision storage to containerised apps.
SimpliVity 4.1.0 can backup to the public cloud with Cloud...
‘Leaner, better resourced’ HPE rides the post-pandemic waves
HPE CEO Antonio Neri yesterday hailed the company's "strong Q1 performance...Our revenue exceeded our outlook and we significantly expanded our gross and operating margins to drive strong profitability across...
Nutanix Q2 results beat expectations despite flat revenues
Nutanix Q2 earnings beat expectations as its move to subscriptions showed positive results. Incoming CEO Rajiv Ramaswami said the company "delivered a strong quarter across the board, exceeding guidance...
VMware plugs into persistent container storage with Cloudian and MinIO
VMware has added persistent container storage in a VMware Cloud Foundation update, via vSAN Data Persistence platform plug-ins with Cloudian and MinIO.
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is a software bundle...
Dell’s VxRail is an EPYC story in the works
Dell Technologies has spruced up the VxRail hyperconverged line-up with AMD EPYC processor options brought in to P Series performance-intensive configurations.
The new all-flash P675F and hybrid flash-disk P675N have...
Veritas’s NetBackup now comes in HCI deployments
Veritas has gone live with NetBackup 9.0, a major release of its flagship data protection software. Enhancements include scale-out and hyperconverged 'Flex Scale' nodes, simpler operations, and OpenStack integration.
“The...
DataCore snaps up Caringo for object storage
Datacore has bought the object storage supplier Caringo for an undisclosed amount and will now offer software-defined block, file and object storage.
Caringo customers include BT Television, Department of...