Storage startup births, acquisitions and market exits in 2023
Three interesting storage startups emerged in 2023, seven were bought and a few storage suppliers and products quit the scene. As more storage startups were bought than born, the...
StorMagic says it’s happy living on the edge
StorMagic sells its virtual SAN product to edge IT sites and SMBs, not enterprise datacenters, and has no ambitions to go beyond these particular on-premises markets.
Although the virtual SAN...
Storage Ticker – December 19
Cloud storage provider Backblaze has kicked off a Network Stats blog series explaining how Backblaze is connected to the internet and what that means for customers. The first post covers...
Nutanix hits record revenues amid evolving market
Hyperconverged infrastructure software vendor Nutanix announced record revenues in its latest quarter, its eighth of successive growth, and hit a $2 billion annual revenue run rate for the first...
Nebulon unveils compact DPU for edge servers
Nebulon has developed a Data Processing Unit (DPU) specifically for edge servers, enabling their CPUs to fully focus on running applications.
A couple of weeks after launching its Medusa2 DPU...
Storage news ticker – November 15
Aerospike released v7.0 of its real-time, multi-model database with a new unified storage format and other in-memory database enhancements. The unified storage format provides the flexibility to choose the...
Storage news ticker – 13 November
Data protector Acronis launched its MSP Academy, an educational initiative promising to help managed service providers (MSPs) with business and technological knowledge, skills, and tools. It covers various topics,...
Nutanix veep talks HCI, SAN, and AI storage solutions
Interview: We had the opportunity to ask Nutanix about server SAN progress, hyperconverged infrastructure vendor consolidation, VMware and Dell HCI positioning, and its AI intentions. Lee Caswell, SVP of...
VMware will have different object storage integrations with MinIO and NetApp
VMware says it will offer primary storage object integration with MinIO and added NetApp Storage Grid as another secondary store for its MSP customers.
The two announcements were made at...
Oxide on-prem cloud computer reinvents the server rack
Startup Oxide has delivered a rack-level system providing cloud-style computing on premises as its first commercial product.
Oxide was founded in September 2019 by datacenter heavyweights CTO Bryan Cantrill, CPO...
VMware and Nutanix lead pack in Forrester HCI report
VMware and Nutanix are the only two leaders in Forrester's Wave report on hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) – Nutanix being slightly in front and everyone else - bar Microsoft -...
Hitachi Vantara unifies hybrid storage product range
Hitachi Vantara is unifying its product portfolio as a single hybrid storage platform called Virtual Storage Platform One.
The company’s portfolio includes the VSP (Virtual Storage Platform) high-end and mid-range...