On-prem file storage catching up to object, SAN
Just over half of Blocks & Files readers work for organizations with more than a petabyte of on-premises data and the amount of file storage is increasing considerably more...
Rakuten Symphony makes distributed stateful cloud-native 5G edge play
Japan’s Rakuten Symphony business unit is setting up automated and containerized 5G edge deployments, using acquired Robin.io technology to do what HCI edge suppliers do with virtualized server systems.
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HCI is more than a blip on GigaOm’s radar
GigaOm's latest HCI report for enterprises shows Nutanix ahead of VMware, Cisco falling behind and two new challengers. The analyst house has also posted new SMB and Edge HCI...
Dell takes VxRail hyperconverged systems to the rugged edge
As promised back in August, Dell has introduced its rugged and modular VxRail system for edge locations, the VD-4000.
VxRail is Dell’s hyperconverged compute+networking+storage+vSphere hypervisor all-in-one-enclosure system which can scale...
Verge.io hires StorONE exec as marketing chief
Virtualized datacenter startup Verge.io has appointed George Crump as its first chief marketing officer.
Crump was, until the end of 2022, CMO at StorONE before a series of executive changes...
VMware and Nutanix still dominating HCI market
IDC has resumed putting out hyperconverged system supplier revenue and market share numbers after after a three-quarter gap and not much has changed since the end of 2020 and...
VMware’s Cloud Flex Storage in AWS squares up to FSx for ONTAP
VMware has created a scalable cloud file service for its VMware Cloud on AWS, taking on NetApp’s FSx for ONTAP in provisioning storage for its VMs and Tanzu containers.
The...
Nutanix sales lift as HPE reportedly mulls acquisition
Nutanix has reported strong revenue growth despite the gloom and doom surrounding the global economic situation. Meanwhile, according to Bloomberg, HPE has held takeover talks with the hyperconverged infrastructure...
HPE sees no recession as revenues rise
HPE recorded strong quarterly revenues with little sign of any slowdown affecting the next quarter’s business, unlike NetApp. Storage did moderately well but there was a 70 percent rise...
PC sales dive hits Dell’s quarterly revenues
Dell PC sales took a dive in the third 2022 quarter, taking Dell’s overall revenues down with them, although the datacenter business managed to grow.
Client Solutions Group (CSG) revenues...
Dell puts PowerFlex into AWS
Dell has made its PowerFlex hyperconverged infrastructure system available on the AWS marketplace as part of the company's APEX program to have its storage software operate across private and...
Competition gets heated on Fungible’s DPU patch
Data processing unit startup Fungible is facing increasing competition as its avenues for growth become restricted and ever more fiercely contested.
The company was founded in 2015 to develop and...