Dell amps up its APEX hybrid multi-cloud portfolio – with more to come
Dell Technologies is announcing storage and data protection services across the on-premises and multiple public cloud environments, along with enhanced Kubernetes support for enterprises adopting hybrid multi-cloud and cloud-native...
Strategic move: NetApp’s top legal eagle becomes Chief Strategy Officer
In a seemingly unusual move, NetApp has appointed Matt Fawcett, its now ex-General Counsel, as Chief Strategy Officer.
Fawcett has been NetApp's top internal lawyer for 10 years, being appointed...
Hitachi Vantara rated as best primary storage for large enterprises by GigaOm
Analyst outfit GigaOm has rated primary (block) storage suppliers in three groups – small, medium and large enterprises – with Hitachi Vantara leading for large enterprises, and NetApp and...
Exec advisors to guide Hammerspace on strategy and tactics
Global data access software startup Hammerspace has set up an Executive Advisory Board to help ensure its products and messages respond to the right business problems – and so...
NetApp’s all-flash range-topping A900: new stuff in an old box
NetApp has a new high-end all-flash array, the A900, more than doubling the capacity of the previous top end A800 system and a performance upgrade for the existing A700....
Predictions for 2022
’Tis the season for predictions — usually vendor predictions — and they always seem to predict, astoundingly, that demand for the vendor’s products will rise because the vendor’s strategic...
Storage news ticker – December 10
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Broadcom revenues for its fourth fiscal 2021 quarter were $7.4 billion, up 15 per cent year-on year, with $1.99 billion net income compared to $1.32 billion a year ago...
NetApp appoints chief product officer who doesn’t look after all products
NetApp has appointed its first chief product officer, Harvinder (Harv) Bhela, who will look after most — but not all — of NetApp’s products.
Bhela starts in January 2022, and...
Ocient’s massively parallel relational database speed machine
A brief news note yesterday said startup Ocient (pronounced oh-see-ent) enabled SS8 Networks to harness petabytes of data in interactive time. Ocient is focussed on ingesting billions of rows per...
Pure takes the high road with throughput-optimised FlashArray models
Pure Storage has added Ice Lake Xeon grunt to two new high-end FlashArray models built with TLC (3bits/cell) NAND and the PCIe 4 bus, overall delivering up to 80...
Kioxia adds sophisticated admin tools and wider support to KumoScale
Kioxia has made its KumoScale box-of-flash admin easier and supports the latest version of OpenStack in its latest software release as it plans to build out its virtualised disaggregated...
Infinidat: we’re boosting our channel, even as others retreat
Infinidat, the memory-cached high-end array shipper, says it has been — and is — building up its channel partners and program while competitors are reducing their channel commitment.
It claims...