Lenovo fills HCI niches via software hookups
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...
Nutanix secures $750m investment, CEO retires
In an end-of-the-week news blizzard, Nutanix delivered Covid-19-defying revenue growth, said its co-founder and CEO plans to retire, and bagged a $750m investment from Bain Capital. The news...
NetApp posts strong Q1, plots big re-organisation
NetApp has pulled off a strong first quarter, posting revenues up five per cent y/y to $1.3bn and net income of $77m.
CEO George Kurian said yesterday: “In the face...
Nutanix Clusters takes on-premises Nutanix to AWS
Nutanix is ready to announce Nutanix Clusters. This brings the on-premises Nutanix experience to AWS and opens another front in the company's battle with VMware.
Sources close to the company...
This week in storage, featuring a mucky International Space Station NAS system
This week the International Space Station's NAS gives vent, Nebulon pumps out a survey, Pliops talks about its storage processor, we see how Pivot3's video HCI is getting better...
Who are the top HCI vendors (and why do tech analysts disagree)?
HCI is a fairly mature market and we think it should be simple enough for tech analysts to agree on what vendors to classify as HCI vendors. Not so...
How does HPE Storage see the world? Let’s find out
We asked HPE to summarise its data storage product positioning to help us prep a recent interview with HPE Storage boss Tom Black.
In addition, we emailed the company some...
HPE lays off engineers in SimpliVity and Nimble HCI R&D merger
Tom Black, HPE's new storage boss, is unifying the SimpliVity and Nimble dHCI engineering R&D and laying off an undisclosed number of engineering staff.
HPE said in a statement that...
Omdia identifies HCI leaders. But where is Nutanix?
Omdia, a tech analyst firm, forecasts the global hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market will grow from $11bn in 2019 to more than $60bn in 2023.
Update: Omdia analyst Roy Illsley replies...
Liqid and Broadcom deliver PCIe 4.0 CI developer kit
Composable infrastructure firm Liqid has produce a reference design kit with Broadcom for solutions that use PCIe 4.0 fabric for connectivity.
Liqid’s composable infrastructure architecture uses industry-standard data centre components...
Software-defined storage: It’s a Thing
The global software-defined storage market is expected to grow by $42.79 billion over the next four years, according to Technavio.
The UK market research firm forecasts the market will...
VMware fleshes out DRaaS with Datrium acquisition
VMware is buying Datrium, an HCI startup that pivoted to disaster recovery in the cloud, for an undisclosed amount.
But the fact that the company revealed the acquisition via a...