Western Digital wants to be the Everything Storage Company. How does its ambition stack...
Western Digital is undertaking a huge project - to own and integrate the entire stack from silicon, glass and sand to arrays and composable systems software.
Originally a disk...
Acronis preps HCI appliance for service providers
Is Acronis nuts? It’s developing a general hyperconverged infrastructure appliance for a market that has already matured and consolidated around the Dell EMC and Nutanix duopoly. But it just...
Nutanix kicks Buckets into life
Nutanix is within a month of launching Buckets, a hyperconverged infrastructure, S3-compatible object service, according to our sources.
The technology gives the company a full house of storage services for...
Lenovo moves HCI partnerships closer to the edge
Lenovo has teamed up with Pivot3 and Scale Computing for its HCI needs, and aiming full tilt at edge computing with a new secure SE350 server.
The ThinkSystem SE350 is...
HPE improves storage revenues, seven quarters straight. But how is 3Par doing?
HPE grew storage revenues three per cent year-on-year in the first 2019 quarter - the seventh quarter in a row that the company has increased revenues in this segment.
Storage revenues for the quarter were $0.98bn, accounting...
NetApp building moat around ONTAP base
NetApp says flash and cloud integration enables it to build a moat around its core ONTAP business base, despite revenues becoming temporarily becalmed.
Its third quarter revenues of...
Storage startup Datrium tipped for unicorn stardom
CB Insights, a financial research firm, has teamed up with the New York Times to publish a list of 50 startups on their way to unicorn status. We note...
Who are the Blocks & Filers?
Most Blocks & Files readers live in the USA and half read content on cell phones.
Three months after the site formally opened an analysis of its readership shows 45...
Virtuozzo Storage is “like Ceph, only faster”
If you want to have file, block and object storage in one product then Ceph does just that. And so does Virtuozzo Storage - but five times faster, it...
Acronis’ hyper-converged backup appliance
Acronis’ SDI Appliance is the first appearance of the company's hyper-converged product line. It is a purpose-built backup system intended to be a storage target for its Backup and...
Hyperconverged infrastructure heads closer to the edge
Interview: Get hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) product development and marketing wrong and your business becomes a turkey. Witness Maxta, which crashed into the buffers this week, as an example of when...
Your occasional Storage Digest, featuring Asigra, Coraid, Fujitsu, BackBlaze, Toshiba and…
Asigra, Coraid, Gartner and Toshiba supply a clutch of storage news to start the week, with better backup pricing, block and mobile phone storage and a supplier-ranking look at...