This week in storage: Teradata in the cloud, WD Zoned SSDs and more
Teradata has become much more serious about working in the public clouds and Western Digital has an NVMe Express-bolstering present for its zoned QLC SSD initiative.
Teradata’s head...
Dell EMC rebrands VxFlex to PowerFlex, adds async rep, DR and safe snapshots
Dell EMC has confirmed PowerFlex as the new name for its scale-out, multi-hypervisor, virtual SAN and HCI VxFlex product set, and added data safety features to the OS.
PowerFlex, sold...
It’s harsh at the edge: Dell gives VxRail a boost with PCIe 4, K8S,...
Dell has extended its VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure systems with support for AMD EPYC processors, PCIe Gen 4.0, Kubernetes, Optane, more GPUs and ruggedised deployments, making it more relevant to...
Converged systems fare well in the first quarter 2020
IDC's converged systems tracker for Q1 2020 shows resilient demand despite the early effects of the pandemic.
The status quo remained the status quo, with VMware leading Nutanix, and HP...
Mission-critical computing and HCI: the time has come
Sponsored Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has been around for at least a decade, but adoption continues to grow apace, as shown by figures from research firm IDC which indicate that...
AIMES ‘normalises’ healthcare AI with Pivot 3- controlled GPUs
Specialist GPU servers could be overkill when crunching relatively small amounts of data for analytics purposes. So why not use ordinary servers boosted with GPU accelerator cards and deployed...
Your occasional storage digest featuring Druva, WekaIO with STACs of benchmarks, and more
This week, Druva helps notebook and desktop users defeat ransomware, and WekaIO feasts on more STAC benchmarks.
Druva gets fiery-eyed
Druva, the backup service vendor, has cut a deal with security...
Datera bags OEM deal with Fujitsu
Datera, the high-end software-defined storage vendor, has signed an OEM deal with Fujitsu, initially covering Europe and Japan.
Datera’s Data Services Platform is a scale-out virtual SAN storage software that...
NetApp revenue decline accelerated by pandemic
NetApp's fourth quarter ended April 24 deteriorated as the pandemic struck and exacerbated product and cloud sales weaknesses.
NetApp’s final 2020 quarter revenues were $1.4bn, dropping 11.9 per cent from...
Nutanix new customer growth and subscription push rebuffs pandemic
Nutanix latest results show it adding new customers and growing subscription revenues in the face of the Covid19 pandemic.
Sister publication The Register covered Nutanix’ third quarter fiscal 2020 earnings...
Your occasional storage digest including Arcserve, Excelero and WekaIO
There's a lot of teamwork going on in data storage land as suppliers piggyback on each other's strengths. We see it with Arcserve and Sophos, WekaIO and Valohai, and...
Nutanix snuggles closer to ServiceNow
Nutanix has bolstered support for ServiceNow with the latest iteration of the Calm app automation and management tool and its Prism Pro monitoring SW. The company says the update...