Nutanix hires ex-Nexenta CEO as chief commercial officer
Nexenta's former boss Tarkan Maner has joined Nutanix as chief commercial officer. In effect he is replacing Sunil Potti, former chief product and development officer, who left in June...
Datrium offers instant vSphere recovery in AWS
Datrium has upgraded its DR-as-a-Service (DRaaS) offering, claiming to provide the industry’s first instant restarts from backup data stored in Amazon’s S3 store. It’s also extended its DRaaS to...
Dell bakes automation into PowerONE converged infrastructure
Dell has launched an all-Dell EMC converged infrastructure system called PowerONE and is making its products available with a subscription and metered pricing deal called Technology on Demand.
PowerONE uses...
Scale Computing: Idea that customers should run multiple edge compute platforms is ‘absurd’
Hyperconverged system vendor Scale Computing has an edge computing system to sell and wants to define edge computing in its own way.
The Edge Computing concept needs simplifying,...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring HPE, Swiftstack and more
HPE has updated its two composable systems offerings while Swiftstack has upped the scale and performance of its object storage software. There's host of other announcements to check out...
Nutanix kicks the Buckets into object storage
Nutanix launched Objects, its renamed Buckets object storage service, earlier this year. Let's take a look.
In essence, Nutanix Objects is software designed for backup, archiving, immutable WORM (Write Once...
Dell EMC debuts NVMe VxRail HCI appliances
Dell EMC has rolled out two NVMe appliances for the VxRail hyperconverged range. It has also added better management and is automating network fabric setup in multi-rack VxRail deployments.
The...
NetApp steers MAX Data towards Elements HCI
Las Vegas NetApp has plunked MAX Data server data access speed-up technology on to the development road map for the company's Elements HCI.
MAX Data is server-side software, installed...
NetApp revenue dip means it has to raise its game
NetApp's annual Insight opens in at Las Vegas today, and sees the company having had two quarters of declining revenues and facing a third. The business faces the ...
HPE adds Infosight to SimpliVity HCI arsenal
HPE has added the SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure platform to the list of things that Infosight monitors.
InfoSight is HPE's predictive analytics service, delivered over the cloud. It collects telemetry...
Dell EMC diverges HCI into networking and storage units
Dell EMC has shunted its hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) products from the server business unit and divided them between the storage and networking units.
Last month Jeff Boudreau was promoted from...
Nutanix integrates with ServiceNow, dives into HPE’s GreenLake, wins HPE OEM deal
Nutanix opened its .NEXT conference in Copenhagen today, announcing an HPE GreenLake deal, its software pre-installed on HPE servers, and integration with ServiceNow for automated incident handling and...