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...
Cohesity says Europe is going well. How well? Well…
Cohesity, the secondary storage converter, has 100 employees and 100 or more customers in EMEA. Not that the US company will talk hard numbers. But I have my sources.
That’s...
Nutanix tops WhatMatrix HCI league table
Nutanix has come out tops in a report by the enterprise tech comparison website WhatMatrix that compares 10 hyperconverged infrastructure vendors and 12 products.
The suppliers, products and overall percentage...
In his own words: Scale CEO spells out his company’s differences
Last week Scale Computing scored a $34.8m F-series funding round, with Lenovo as the biggest investor. The duo have teamed up to sell edge computing solutions to retailers.
Lenovo has...
Lenovo gets edgy with Scale for hyperconverged retail love-in
Lenovo has teamed up with Scale Computing to jointly sell their edge computing wares to retailers.
And they have already bagged a marquee customer. This is the Dutch multinational supermarket...
SAP slaps sticker on Lenovo HANA HCI box
SAP has given its seal of approval to a Lenovo hyperconverged appliance using Nutanix AHV virtualization software to run its HANA in-memory database.
The ThinkAgile HX Solution for SAP HANA, to...
Your Occasional Storage Digest, featuring Cohesity, IBM, Maxta, Nutanix, Proscia, Rubrik, SwiftStack, Zadara
Here's a digest of recent storage news to help you keep up with what's going on.
Cohesity
Cohesity is parting with some of the money raised in its recent funding round...
Two-horse HCI race with graphical clarity
Dell Technologies and Nutanix, the leaders of the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) appliance market, are increasing their dominance, while their competitors in the following pack look to be fighting for...
A quick run through Axellio’s iWARP all-flash Hyper-V HCI box
Axellio has jumped onto the hyperconverged train with the FabrixXpress edge-computing appliance, a software-defined "datacenter in a box" for enterprises and service providers to build on-premises and hybrid integration...
How is Solidfire doing? Let’s find out
Analysis. Solidfire all-flash arrays had a $130.8m run rate in NetApp’s fiscal 2018 but the quarterly growth trend line is uneven.
Wells Fargo senior analyst Aaron Rakers has estimated Solidfire...
Datrium raises $60m. Is it enough?
Datrium has gained $60m in D-round funding, as it looks to break out of the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) herd.
Found in 2012, Datrium pioneered a mid-way between converged and hyperconverged...
IDC storage tracker whacker: external storage holding steady vs server SAN
Server SANs are not eating into the external SAN market, judging by IDC storage tracker numbers.
It's been predicted that server SANs, which aggregate local storage in a cluster of...