Your occasional storage digest with NetApp, VxRail and more
A mixed bag in this this week's roundup, with NetApp changing its logo - and trying to redefine HCI to suit itself, a new report on backup, and Dell...
VMware and Nutanix grab lion’s share of spoils, in ‘difficult quarter’ for HCI vendors
IDC’s converged systems tracker for Q2 2020 shows a decline in a "difficult quarter". But HCI sales did grow well in China and Japan, and HPE did well with...
VMware adds files, objects and more in vSAN two-step
VMware is extending Kubernetes capabilities by offering third party integration hooks to vSAN. The company today also announced the next vSAN update will add file services and Active Directory...
Our storage digest takes to the skies with Acronis, Inspur, Nutanix and DataStax
We start our latest storage news roundup with electric VTOL racing aircraft whose data needs protecting. Step forward Acronis. Inspur severs firm the basis of its Nutanix HCI kit...
Nutanix Blockstore nips through Stargate to speed AOS storage
Nutanix will be bypassing Linux kernel context switches to accelerate AOS storage processing in its latest release. That makes AOS faster, which is good news for its mission-critical application...
Lenovo fills HCI niches via software hookups
Lenovo is using software partnerships to sell ThinkAgile hyperconverged hardware systems and ThinkSystem servers into niche markets.
The company already works with with Pivot3 to sell video surveillance hyperconverged infrastructure...
Nutanix secures $750m investment, CEO retires
In an end-of-the-week news blizzard, Nutanix delivered Covid-19-defying revenue growth, said its co-founder and CEO plans to retire, and bagged a $750m investment from Bain Capital. The news...
NetApp posts strong Q1, plots big re-organisation
NetApp has pulled off a strong first quarter, posting revenues up five per cent y/y to $1.3bn and net income of $77m.
CEO George Kurian said yesterday: “In the face...
Nutanix Clusters takes on-premises Nutanix to AWS
Nutanix is ready to announce Nutanix Clusters. This brings the on-premises Nutanix experience to AWS and opens another front in the company's battle with VMware.
Sources close to the company...
This week in storage, featuring a mucky International Space Station NAS system
This week the International Space Station's NAS gives vent, Nebulon pumps out a survey, Pliops talks about its storage processor, we see how Pivot3's video HCI is getting better...
Who are the top HCI vendors (and why do tech analysts disagree)?
HCI is a fairly mature market and we think it should be simple enough for tech analysts to agree on what vendors to classify as HCI vendors. Not so...
How does HPE Storage see the world? Let’s find out
We asked HPE to summarise its data storage product positioning to help us prep a recent interview with HPE Storage boss Tom Black.
In addition, we emailed the company some...