Mainframe demand (again) boosts IBM storage sales
IBM has reported good storage revenue growth in the first 2020 quarter as robust demand for the System z15 mainframe carried DS8900 array sales in its wake.
The Register has...
Your occasional enterprise storage digest featuring CTERA, Nutanix, OpenIO, StorONE and Veritas
This week's digest covers file-sharing, flash, hyperconverged infrastructure, all-in-one storage, object storage, data protection and supplier responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. Dive straight in with Nutanix.
Nutanix China win
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Lightbits Labs: server systems needlessly chew up SSD budgets
Lightbits Labs, an all-flash array startup, claims server systems need external SANs to use flash memory properly. Users may only get only get 15 to 25 per cent flash...
Your occasional enterprise storage digest, featuring Commvault, Nutanix, HYCU, MariaDB and more
Companies in this week's enterprise storage news roundup, cover encryption, replication, tiering, object support, snapshots, the public cloud and more. Let's start alphabetically.
Commvault upgrades for cloud and simpler data...
NetApp tops customer survey for block and file storage
NetApp is ranked the top supplier for block and file storage by end users in a survey of European and US companies.
Coldago, a small data storage research firm, surveyed...
HCI shop Pivot3 makes ‘significant’ layoffs
Pivot3, the hyperconverged startup, said the covid-19 pandemic has affected business and is axing staff in a cost-cutting drive.
There are no details of the job losses but one report...
Diamanti: K8s workloads run so much faster on our bare metal HCI system
Profile: Diamanti has built a bare metal Kubernetes container platform with persistent all-flash storage.
The California startup was founded in 2014 by three Cisco UCS server veterans and has...
NetApp cans Kubernetes and Cloud Volumes services on HCI. But what is waiting in...
NetApp is shuttering NKS on HCI and Cloud Volumes on HCI, with effect from April 20. In their place, the storage giant is readying "some very cool things in...
Dell strengthens HCI market lead over… everyone
Dell Technologies has consolidated its hyperconverged infrastructure market share lead over second-placed Nutanix in IDC's latest quarterly storage tracker.
Nutanix's growth rate did not keep pace with the market in...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Infinidat, Retrospect, Toshiba and more
In this week's data storage roundup, Infinidat has put things in place to support vSphere disaster recovery failover across metro distances while Retrospect make it simple and easy to...
HPE gives SimpliVity HCI a speed boost
HPE has given SimpliVity HCI a speed boost by using more flash drives or faster spinning disks.
The company has not publicised the upgrade as far as we can...
HPE storage sales remain flat despite adding SimpliVity HCI to the numbers
HPE storage revenues fell in Q12020, but the company was pleased even to maintain "flat sequential revenues competitive backdrop", CFO Tarek Robbiati said.
The Register noted in its...