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...
Dell Q2 revenues better than expected, sees AI everywhere
Dell reported revenues in the second quarter ended August 4 of $22.9 billion, 13 percent less than a year ago, with a net income of $455 million, 10 percent...
Nutanix scents profitability after bumper Q4
Nutanix reported revenue growth in excess of guidance for the fourth fiscal 2023 quarter with its lowest annual loss for seven years, bringing profitability within reach.
Revenues in the quarter...
HPE storage biz holds its own against rivals
HPE showed its storage business doing proportionally better in the third quarter than its main competitors who all saw worse revenue declines.
Update: Pure results on Aug 30 showed 6...
Cisco partnership with Nutanix raises questions over HyperFlex
Cisco and Nutanix have set up a global strategic partnership to produce the Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix product, which is to be sold through Cisco's channel.
It comprises Nutanix...
VMware separates out HCI storage in vSAN Max
VMware has enabled external storage clusters for its vSAN hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) product, three years after buying Datrium, which focused on the same technology.
The essence of HCI is that...
Nutanix puts ChatGPT in a turnkey box
Nutanix has launched a turnkey GPT-in-a-box for customers to run large language model AI workloads on its hyperconverged software platform.
Update: Nutanix does not support Nvidia's GPU Direct protocol. 5...
Storage news roundup – 3 August
Zivan Ori, founder of NVMe flash array company E8, is leaving AWS for a to-be-revealed destination. AWS bought E8 in 2019. Ori said in a LinkedIn post: “The last...
Storage news collection – 28 July 2023
Today is SysAdmin Day. The concept was created by Ted Kekatos, a system administrator, in 1999. He wanted to establish a special day to recognize the hard work and...
Market optimism grows among some storage VARs
A report tracking enterprise VARs (value-added resellers) by analyst William Blair provides insights into the current state of the enterprise IT infrastructure market and the prospects and challenges for...
Gartner storage hype cycle has selective memory
Comment: Research house Gartner has published its 2023 storage hype cycle, highlighting the evolving landscape of various technologies in the industry, and some have dropped completely out of sight.
The...