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...
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.
Original introduction It's...
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...
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...
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....
Nutanix, Pure, VMware are booming. Other enterprise IT vendors? Not so much
Cisco is discounting its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure product, Commvault is under competitive pressure, Microsoft AzureStack lacks traction, and NetApp is replacing IBM storage arrays, while Nutanix, Pure and VMware...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...