Enterprise Storage in 2019: Keep those industry predictions rolling
Updated on January 21, 2019 with more predictions from Pure Storage, IBM and Maxta following the addition of Archive 360, Arcserve, NetApp and StorPool predictions earlier in January.
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Datera gets helpful halfway OEM hug from HPE
HPE this week added Datera, a software-defined and scale-out storage supplier, to its HPE Complete program.
Hang on, HPE already works with Hedvig, another software-defined and scale-out storage supplier....
It could be StorMagic for Spectra Logic sales chief
StorMagic, a niche hyperconverged software vendor, has hired Spectralogic sales boss Brian Grainger as chief revenue officer and board member.
Grainger spent 18 years at SpectraLogic, a leading tape library...
Journalist jumps ship to Nutanix
A couple of job announcements for you to ring in the New Year.
Greener Grass
Nutanix has recruited TechTarget France journalist Christophe Bardy as solutions strategist in the SE and Specialists...
External storage sales fall behind in bull market
IDC's Q3 2018 worldwide storage tracker shows the overall storage market is booming except for external, shared array / filer technology.
The total storage numbers reported are summarised in...
VMware rules HCI market (true)
Our thanks to VMware VP Lee Caswell who has published some extracts of a recent 451 Research survey of hyperconverged system vendor installed system market share. Look at the...
While giants sleep. HYCU sneaks into Nutanix and Google Cloud Platform backup
Enterprise backup is a huge and overcrowded market. But HYCU, a new arrival on the block, thinks it has found a couple of lucrative backwaters that are underserved by...
Cisco joins HCI leaders in Gartner’s MQ
Cisco’s HyperFlex hyper-converged system has joined the leaders’ squad, getting promoted from from the challenger’s square and overtaking HPE - just, in the latest HCI Magic Quadrant from Gartner.
Here’s...
StorPool speeds up and joins the Arm army
StorPool, the Virtual SAN software vendor, has added IBM POWER and Arm64 server support in a software update.
New features in V18.02 include more integrations, extended hardware compatibility, hardware acceleration,...
Your occasional storage digest: Compuverde, Igneous, Quantum, Asigra – and more
Ok folks, this week's round up of news from storageland that didn't make the front page. Shall we begin.
Compuverde
This firm provides vNAS scale-out NAS software which is used by...
Regarding NetApp’s strong second quarter
Analysis NetApp turned in a good second fiscal quarter 2019, though its all-flash array revenue growth rate slowed.
It spent a lot of earnings call time emphasising its Elements hyperconverged infrastructure...
Maxta beefs up storage systems management
Maxta this week added an analytics component to its core hyperconvergence software. The intent is to deliver better system management and operational improvements, including less downtime and reduced manual...