Storage news ticker – 11 May
Aerospike has announced GA of Aerospike Database 6 (AD6), a fresh release of the core engine that powers Aerospike’s Real-time Data Platform. It has native support for...
A glimpse at Dell’s future
Dell Technologies World 2022 attendees this week saw and heard from Dell's probable next CEO: Chuck Whitten, He arrived at Dell as its co-COO in August last year,...
Storage news ticker – May 5
Bacula is announcing the availability of its Nutanix AHV backup module which includes agentless deployment, snapshot-based backup/restore, support for any kind of guest VM, and hot copy...
Dell supercharges storage hardware underlying its software-defined storage
Dell is raising its storage hardware and software game with updates to its PowerMax, PowerStore, PowerScale and PowerFlex systems that increase capacity, performance, automation, data mobility and...
Cyber-resilient Dell brings the cloud to its customers and their data to the clouds
Day one of Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas saw Dell bring customers more APEX on-premises and public cloud cyber resilience services, a deal integrating its on-premises...
Pure Storage wants to work with data gravity, not against it
Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo expressed two noteworthy views in an interview with Blocks & Files – that hyperconverged infrastructure doesn’t exist inside hyperscaler datacenters, and that...
Storage news ticker – April 14
CData Software says Monrovia Nursery Co. is using its CData Sync product for storage of data from many and varied sources to develop cohesive financial and operational...
Nutanix’s CFO exits to join startup
Nutanix CFO Duston Williams has resigned for pastures new with Rukmini Sivaraman, senior veep of Financial Planning & Analysis, promoted to replace him.
Dell storage dives into Equinix colo private cloud pools
Equinix is selling Dell managed storage, hyperconverged and data protection products as-a-service from its datacenters.
The products include Dell PowerStore (all-flash), VxRail and PowerProtect...
Verge.io – an HCI curiosity shop survivor
Verge.io's technology creates nested, multi-tenant, virtual datacenters for enterprises and MSPs from hyperconverged infrastructure servers. Back in the HCI glory days before 2018, it was known as...
Nutanix on course to turn a profit
More than a year into his tenure as Nutanix CEO, Rajiv Ramaswami is shaping the company into a more sustainable entity, one that looks on course...
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.
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...
Supply chain woes dampen Dell storage revenues in Q4 of fiscal ’22
Dell's full fiscal 2022 results include pockets of storage glory but PCs sales led the charge with servers following behind as the US business battled supply chain...
Hitachi Vantara refreshes mid-range storage hardware, software, and management
Hitachi Vantara has announced a new mid-range array, block storage software for x86 servers and cloud-native apps, placement of its arrays in Equinix colocation centres with high-speed...
Pure Storage and Nutanix – the new incumbents
Though Pure Storage and Nutanix can now be regarded as incumbents, they still behave like growth-hungry startups.
Nutanix went public in 2016 following Pure's...
Nutanix simplifies product set into five bundles
Nutanix is reshaping its product set into five groups that run across public, private, and hybrid clouds with a consistent operating model and simplified packaging, metering, and...
Server fleet management less complex and nebulous with Nebulon
Nebulon is getting customer traction with its server fleet management server control cards and cloud management, as customers realise they can save big bucks by buying servers...