NetApp withdraws from Russia
NetApp is suspending its Russian operations in light of the Ukraine invasion.
The company has employees in Russia and sells to local businesses via an OEM agreement with Fujitsu. Tech...
Nvidia buys Excelero to speed GPU cluster block data access
GPU giant Nvidia is buying NVMe block data access software specialist Excelero for an undisclosed amount.
This acquisition first reared its head as a possibility last month. Now the two...
Nutanix paints go faster stripes on AOS 6.01 software, announces General Availability
A new version of Nutanix AOS software runs applications faster because of developments with vDisk multi-threading, Optane SSD tiering and retrieving stranded DRAM, the company says.
AOS v6.1 is...
DDN adds midrange hybrid box to IntelliFlash storage array line
DDN has added a low-end model to its IntelliFlash array line to broaden appeal for its hybrid NVMe SSD/hard disk drive range.
The IntelliFlash block+file storage arrays were acquired by...
Storage news ticker – March 3
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File share outfit Box reported preliminary $233.4 million revenues for its Q4 ended January 31, up 17 per cent year-on-year. There was a net loss of $4.33 million, slightly...
Pure Storage makes a profit for the first time as revenue rises 41 per...
Pure Storage has made its first net profit, $14.9 million, reported for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2022.
The business reported revenues in the quarter ended February 6 of $708.6...
Strong order growth at HPE but storage revenues drop 3 per cent
Revenues rose just 2 per cent in HPE’s first fiscal 2022 quarter, but order growth was up 20 per cent with as-a-service up 136 per cent. Supply constraints affecting...
Smile – Fungible’s FunOS 4.0 brings DPU delight to entry-level systems
Adding server-offload cards to smaller numbers of servers has become possible with Fungible’s latest SW release.
Fungible is a Data Processing Unit (DPU) startup with two proprietary S1 and F1...
VAST Data grows to $300m bookings run rate in 3 years
VAST Data has sold enough of its all-flash array software to reach a $300m bookings run rate just three years after it first launched its product.
The Universal Storage offering...
Storage news ticker – 24 February
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Datto, which supplies cloud backup storage for MSPs, reported revenues for the fourth 2021 quarter of $164.3m, up 18 per cent Y/Y with a $5.7m profit, better than the year-ago...
Nvidia plus Excelero equals acquisition – maybe
We have heard that Nvidia could be buying Excelero, an NVMe storage software startup – and Excelero did not deny it.
Nvidia is the GPU server giant that just withdrew...
Storage news ticker – 21 February
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Consumer and enterprise cloud file sharing business Dropbox reported Q4 2021 revenues of $565.5 million, up 12.2 per cent year-on-year, and with a net profit of $124.6 million compared...