Your occasional storage digest, including Dell, IDC on HCI, Intel Optane, Nebulon and more
There are several news items about Intel Optane in this week’s roundup, as Intel’s Optane software ecosystem building efforts pick up. But Cloudera, first.
Cloudera’s cloud data warehouse
Cloudera is now...
Dell strengthens HCI lead, Nutanix sees Cisco in side mirrors
Nutanix is a more distant number two to hyperconverged infrastructure leader Dell Technologies while Cisco has overtaken HPE to become the number three player. Cisco’s 46.8 per cent growth...
Boudreau replaces Clarke as head of Dell ISG, in the tale of two Jeffs
Jeff Clarke, Dell Technologies’s vice chairman and overall product and operations boss, has stepped away from day-to-day control of the server-to-storage-to-networking-to-protection ISG Group. He passes the baton to EMC...
Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Consulting to merge
Hitachi is merging the Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Consulting businesses under the Hitachi Vantara brand, with effect from January 2020.
Hitachi Vantara supplies VSP storage array, servers and business analytics...
Scale adds Acronis backup to HCI set-up
Scale Computing, the hyperconverged systems vendor, is OEMing Acronis Backup to add archiving and disaster recovery to its systems.
Scale’s HC3 includes a data protection suite which offers high-availability, backup,...
VMware’s Project Magna applies machine learning to automate the data centre
VMware is developing a cloud service to monitor software in customer deployments and tune it automatically to improve performance. This is Project Magna and its first target is vSAN...
Dell earnings show it pulling away from the competition
Dell Technologies pulled in £23.4bn revenues in the second fiscal 2020 quarter, up 2 per cent, and eked a massive $4.5bn profit, thanks to an income tax provision.
In a...
Nutanix reduces cash burn – but when will it turn a profit?
Nutanix delivered poor topline results for its fourth fiscal 2019 quarter and full year, with quarterly revenue down and deeper losses. A good outlook, a smaller loss per share...
A bit of a storage rounder-upper
August is coming to a close. Here is a round-up of storage news for the past few days.
AI-powered personal NAS
Say hello to Latticework’s Amber, a personal NAS that...
NetApp warns of big revenue miss as US-China woes bite
NetApp expects a big revenue miss in the first 2020 quarter due to large global accounts spending less in response to the US-China trade dispute and other macroeconomic uncertainties.
The...
Nutanix gets back to basics, stops ‘jamming its full-stack vision down customers’ throats’
William Blair analyst Jason Ader has detected early signs of a Nutanix business upswing, following feedback from reseller sources.
In his customer newsletter this week, he wrote: “We heard that...
Your summer storage picnic
We have spread out a tasty array of storage summer dishes on our white linen cloth. Take a deck chair and feast your eyes on Attala's smart NIC nuts,...