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Cisco should junk UCS servers, says analyst. And HCI too?

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Cisco's latest earnings (report) were dragged down by performance of the infrastructure platforms business. What gives? In yesterday's earnings call, Bank of America Merrill Lynch analyst Tal Liani asked the...

Nebulon: Here’s why we are better (and cheaper) than SANs and HCI

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Analysis. Nebulon, a storage startup that came out of stealth in June, aims to compete with SAN arrays and HCI. It has built a product that fits into neither...

Your occasional storage digest featuring Diamanti, HYCU, TrueNAS and more

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Two Kubernetes-related news stories in this week's storage news round up. Diamanti has debuted a software-only offering and Robin.io has upgraded its core offering and introduced a full-featured but...

Your occasional storage digest with MariaDB, Chief Data Officers and more

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The digest this week is cloud-centric with MariaDB updating its SkySQL product and Nutanix refreshing its Era database management offering. But we’re also startled to learn that Chief Data...

Dell bakes VMware support into VXRail, ObjectScale and PowerProtect systems

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Dell Technologies has added a raft of VMware-support across its Cloud Platform, VxRail, ObjectScale and PowerProtect systems. The updates, announced today at VMworld 2020, include: Cloud Platform and VxRail hyperconverged systems...

Hitachi Vantara packs Optane into HCI systems

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Hitachi Vantara has updated its hyperconverged infrastructure systems with faster processors. Loosely speaking, the company's Unified Compute Platform (UCP) HC and RS lines are similar to Dell EMC’s VxRail and...

Your occasional storage digest with NetApp, VxRail and more

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A mixed bag in this this week's roundup, with NetApp changing its logo - and trying to redefine HCI to suit itself, a new report on backup, and Dell...

VMware and Nutanix grab lion’s share of spoils, in ‘difficult quarter’ for HCI vendors

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IDC’s converged systems tracker for Q2 2020 shows a decline in a "difficult quarter". But HCI sales did grow well in China and Japan, and HPE did well with...

VMware adds files, objects and more in vSAN two-step

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VMware is extending Kubernetes capabilities by offering third party integration hooks to vSAN. The company today also announced the next vSAN update will add file services and Active Directory...

Our storage digest takes to the skies with Acronis, Inspur, Nutanix and DataStax

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We start our latest storage news roundup with electric VTOL racing aircraft whose data needs protecting. Step forward Acronis. Inspur severs firm the basis of its Nutanix HCI kit...

Nutanix Blockstore nips through Stargate to speed AOS storage

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Nutanix will be bypassing Linux kernel context switches to accelerate AOS storage processing in its latest release. That makes AOS faster, which is good news for its mission-critical application...

Lenovo fills HCI niches via software hookups

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Lenovo  is using software partnerships to sell ThinkAgile hyperconverged hardware systems and ThinkSystem servers into niche markets. The company already works with with Pivot3 to sell video surveillance hyperconverged infrastructure...