Storage news ticker – September 27

CDN supplier Akamai has confirmed six new core compute regions across Europe, Asia, North America and Latin America. The new locations in Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan, Jakarta, Osaka, Japan, and São Paulo expand Akamai’s cloud computing network todata-intensive connection points…

Dell APEX Cloud Platform comes to Azure Stack HCI

Dell has launched its APEX Cloud Platform for Azure, first announced at Dell World in May, helping to provide a…

Storage news ticker – September 18

Cigent Technology, which supplies zero trust data protection, is partnering with encrypted storage drive supplier Kanguru to bring full disk…

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…

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. …

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

Storage news roundup - 3 August

Zivan Ori. Zivan Ori, founder of NVMe flash array company E8, is leaving AWS for a to-be-revealed destination. AWS bought…

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…

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…

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…

Lenovo revs up NetApp and Azure Stack systems

Lenovo has upgraded its storage array and Azure Stack lines with faster and higher-capacity products to support AI and hybrid cloud…

Dell thinks generative AI will generate storage sales

Dell believes generative AI could be as transformative as server virtualization and drive increased compute, network and storage sales. Execs…

Scale finds edgy replacement now that Intel's shut down NUC

Intel has signalled the end-of-life for its low-cost NUC mini-server line of PCs, which means Scale Computing will have to…