Dell merges server and storage sales teams to combat enterprise slowdown
Dell has combined its server and storage teams in response to a slowdown in enterprise sales in North America and China.
Speaking in the Dell Q4 earnings call yesterday, COO...
Nutanix revenue rise fails to impress Wall St
Nutanix shares dropped 20 per cent in after market trading yesterday in response to worse than expected losses for Q2 fy2020 and a disappointing outlook for the next quarter.
On...
HPE Primera gains Veeam V10 support
HPE has announced Veeam support for its Primera high-end storage array and for disaster recovery data copies made by its StoreOnce software.
Veeam already supports HPE’s 3PAR and...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring mainframes, HAMR and a data protection deluge
Your occasional storage digest this week features boatloads of data protection news from Atempo, Clumio, Cobalt Iron, Datrium, Druva, Infrascale and Overland-Tandberg.
Also we cover mainframe data extraction and...
Nutanix to run Karbon 2.0 Kubernetes clusters in no-network isolation zone
V.2 of Nutanix’s Karbon front end wrapper for Kubernetes will enable Kubernetes clusters to run in a network-free isolation zone.
At time of writing, Nutanix had not officially announced Karbon...
Is it breakout time for Rubrik and Cohesity? Wikibon suggests it might be
Wikibon’s Cube Insights has looked at large customer spending pattern forecasts in a Data Storage 2020: Icebergs Ahead report. Rubrik and Cohesity are looking good with Nutanix and Pure...
Cloudian goes Splunk and Hitachi buys ML metadata firm
This week in storage, we have an acquisition, three momentum releases, Cloudian going Splunk, Emmy awards for Isilon and Quantum, plus some funding news, people moves, two customer wins...
HyperFlex becomes mates with K8s: No need to go through vSphere first
Cisco’s hyperconverged HyperFlex system has been re-engineered to support containerisation with native Kubernetes and Intersight cloud-based management.
The rationale is that users need to be able to move apps between...
Scale Computing takes HCI to the thin edge
Last week Scale Computing launched a cigarette box-sized HCI edge appliance, the HE 150. You can read our story on HE 150 specs and availability here. In this article...
Hyperconverged stretching lead over converged as VMware extends lead over Nutanix
A wide gap has opened up between hyperconverged system sales and converged infrastructure (CI) in IDC's latest Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker, as VMware stretches out its lead over Nutanix...
Stratoscale crashes to earth
Hyperconverged software startup Stratoscale is closing down.
The Israeli company was founded in 2012 by Ariel Maislos and Eyal Bogner and has raised $70m in funding to date. Investors include...
Scale Computing launches mini-HCI edge box
Scale Computing has announced a miniature hyperconverged system for space-constrained edge computing sites.
The HE150 slots in below the HE500 edge HCI box, is the size of a small hi-fi...