Storage news ticker – 13 November
Data protector Acronis launched its MSP Academy, an educational initiative promising to help managed service providers (MSPs) with business and technological knowledge, skills, and tools. It covers various topics,...
Nutanix veep talks HCI, SAN, and AI storage solutions
Interview: We had the opportunity to ask Nutanix about server SAN progress, hyperconverged infrastructure vendor consolidation, VMware and Dell HCI positioning, and its AI intentions. Lee Caswell, SVP of...
VMware will have different object storage integrations with MinIO and NetApp
VMware says it will offer primary storage object integration with MinIO and added NetApp Storage Grid as another secondary store for its MSP customers.
The two announcements were made at...
Oxide on-prem cloud computer reinvents the server rack
Startup Oxide has delivered a rack-level system providing cloud-style computing on premises as its first commercial product.
Oxide was founded in September 2019 by datacenter heavyweights CTO Bryan Cantrill, CPO...
VMware and Nutanix lead pack in Forrester HCI report
VMware and Nutanix are the only two leaders in Forrester's Wave report on hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) – Nutanix being slightly in front and everyone else - bar Microsoft -...
Hitachi Vantara unifies hybrid storage product range
Hitachi Vantara is unifying its product portfolio as a single hybrid storage platform called Virtual Storage Platform One.
The company’s portfolio includes the VSP (Virtual Storage Platform) high-end and mid-range...
Ephemeral cloud, decentralized solutions, and the future of block storage
Chris Evans is the consultant and analyst behind Architecting IT. He has a reputation for shrewd and insightful analysis of storage technologies and suppliers. We thought we'd take advantage...
Storage news ticker – September 27
CDN supplier Akamai has confirmed six new core compute regions across Europe, Asia, North America and Latin America. The new locations in Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan, Jakarta, Osaka, Japan, and São Paulo expand Akamai’s cloud computing network todata-intensive connection points that will ultimately allow enterprise customers to provide improved connectivity and experience to end...
Dell APEX Cloud Platform comes to Azure Stack HCI
Dell has launched its APEX Cloud Platform for Azure, first announced at Dell World in May, helping to provide a consistent Azure cloud environment across edge, branch, and central...
Storage news ticker – September 18
Cigent Technology, which supplies zero trust data protection, is partnering with encrypted storage drive supplier Kanguru to bring full disk encryption to global customers. Kanguru Defender SED300 Secure SSDs,...
Storage news ticker – September 7
Airbyte has announced an integration with Datadog, the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. It gives customers the ability to monitor and analyze data pipelines with reporting of...
Nutanix’s looming profitability helped by Cisco deal, Broadcom-VMware concerns and NVidia support
Interview. Hyper-converged infrastructure supplier Nutanix has good prospects with a newly minted Cisco partnership, current Nvidia relationship, and looming profitability.
Update: Nutanix confirmed it doesn't support GPUDirect but is considering...