HPE lays off engineers in SimpliVity and Nimble HCI R&D merger
Tom Black, HPE's new storage boss, is unifying the SimpliVity and Nimble dHCI engineering R&D and laying off an undisclosed number of engineering staff.
HPE said in a statement that...
Omdia identifies HCI leaders. But where is Nutanix?
Omdia, a tech analyst firm, forecasts the global hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market will grow from $11bn in 2019 to more than $60bn in 2023.
Update: Omdia analyst Roy Illsley replies...
Liqid and Broadcom deliver PCIe 4.0 CI developer kit
Composable infrastructure firm Liqid has produce a reference design kit with Broadcom for solutions that use PCIe 4.0 fabric for connectivity.
Liqid’s composable infrastructure architecture uses industry-standard data centre components...
Software-defined storage: It’s a Thing
The global software-defined storage market is expected to grow by $42.79 billion over the next four years, according to Technavio.
The UK market research firm forecasts the market will...
VMware fleshes out DRaaS with Datrium acquisition
VMware is buying Datrium, an HCI startup that pivoted to disaster recovery in the cloud, for an undisclosed amount.
But the fact that the company revealed the acquisition via a...
This week in storage: Teradata in the cloud, WD Zoned SSDs and more
Teradata has become much more serious about working in the public clouds and Western Digital has an NVMe Express-bolstering present for its zoned QLC SSD initiative.
Teradata’s head...
Dell EMC rebrands VxFlex to PowerFlex, adds async rep, DR and safe snapshots
Dell EMC has confirmed PowerFlex as the new name for its scale-out, multi-hypervisor, virtual SAN and HCI VxFlex product set, and added data safety features to the OS.
PowerFlex, sold...
It’s harsh at the edge: Dell gives VxRail a boost with PCIe 4, K8S,...
Dell has extended its VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure systems with support for AMD EPYC processors, PCIe Gen 4.0, Kubernetes, Optane, more GPUs and ruggedised deployments, making it more relevant to...
Converged systems fare well in the first quarter 2020
IDC's converged systems tracker for Q1 2020 shows resilient demand despite the early effects of the pandemic.
The status quo remained the status quo, with VMware leading Nutanix, and HP...
Mission-critical computing and HCI: the time has come
Sponsored Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has been around for at least a decade, but adoption continues to grow apace, as shown by figures from research firm IDC which indicate that...
AIMES ‘normalises’ healthcare AI with Pivot 3- controlled GPUs
Specialist GPU servers could be overkill when crunching relatively small amounts of data for analytics purposes. So why not use ordinary servers boosted with GPU accelerator cards and deployed...
Your occasional storage digest featuring Druva, WekaIO with STACs of benchmarks, and more
This week, Druva helps notebook and desktop users defeat ransomware, and WekaIO feasts on more STAC benchmarks.
Druva gets fiery-eyed
Druva, the backup service vendor, has cut a deal with security...