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NetApp Finally Enters Hyper-converged Infrastructure Market With Focus on Enterprise-Grade All-Flash Capabilities

The new NetApp HCI combines SolidFire all-flash storage technology with NetApp's fully-baked on-premises to cloud management capabilities in a play …

Tintri files for US$100m IPO but warns losses will likely keep coming

Virtualized storage upstart Tintri has filed for its initial public offering.<p>The filing reveals modest ambitions to raise around US$100m.<p>Why the …

Meet The Cloud Wars Top 10: The World's Most-Powerful Cloud-Computing Vendors

<i>(Note: After an award-winning career in the media business covering the tech industry, Bob Evans was VP of Strategic Communications at SAP in 2011, and Chief Communications Officer at Oracle from 2012 to 2016. He now runs his own firm, Evans Strategic Communications LLC.)</i><p><b>CLOUD WARS –</b> The secret …

HPE meets lowered expectations as execs insist the worst is over

The word “down” appears 21 times in Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s fiscal second-quarter earnings release, which gives you some indication of the …

Box looks to woo Wall Street with its positive cash flow story

Like Box’s last quarterly check-in, the company once again touted that it had free cash flow in the first quarter this year as part of its Q1 earnings report today — a signal that Wall Street may be looking for as a barometer of its future health as a company.<p>Box in the last quarter said it would …

Pure's punchy first fiscal 2017 quarter opens door to billion-dollar year

All-flasher Pure Storage has a feeling this could be its first billion-dollar year and is moving into tightly coupled co-processing between Pure and …

Hyper-converged trashes all-flash: Nutanix out-grows Pure Storage

Nutanix is racing on to the billion dollar revenue mark for next year with a $100m net loss fuelled quarter of growth.<p>Third fiscal 2017 quarter …

Pure Storage CEO Dietzen On Pure's Software Focus, Profitability Goals And HCI Views

<b>All-Flash Storage Is Not All About Speed</b><p>Pure Storage just came off what CEO Scott Dietzen said is a good first fiscal quarter 2018. The company …

Captain Kurian steers good ship NetApp back on course after $8m loss

No drama, no worries, just the slick sounds of a well-oiled machine doing its stuff. That's NetApp with its latest quarterly results.<p>All-flash arrays …

Pure Storage shares surge as it beats profit and sales forecasts

Flash storage provider Pure Storage Inc. beat back doubts about its growth today, reporting better-than-expected first fiscal-quarter profit and …

Two New NetApp Acquisitions Bring NVMe Prowess, Converged Infrastructure Management, And Future Strength

NetApp on Wednesday unveiled two acquisitions it expects to help grow its already-growing converged infrastructure and cloud storage business.<p>The …

The Best Way To Transmit Satellite Data? In Trucks. Really

An unmarked white semi-truck rests on orange steel plates—<i>Rent Me</i>, they proclaim—protecting the soft ground outside a glass-fronted office building …

Nutanix Teams With IBM To Build Hyper-Converged Cloud Hardware

A multi-year hyper-converged partnership has formed between the two vendors around data center hardware.

15 Hot Products Unleashed At Dell EMC World 2017

<b>Dell EMC's Data Center Assault</b><p>This week's Dell EMC World, which replaces the old EMC World that ran for years before Dell last year closed its EMC …

Did somebody say object storage? 9 ways to tell if there's a point

<b>Comment</b> Tick 'em off, impress the boardroomObject storage is a relatively new market segment that has continued to grow steadily and is starting to …

The History Boys: Object storage ... from the beginning

<b>Backgrounder</b> Taking you way back with content-addressable storageThis is a terrific object storage history map from Silicon Valley object storage guy …

Object storage adoption: Why, when, where… and, importantly, but

<b>Comment</b> Build a better interface and the world will... wait, where are you all going?In one of my recent posts, I wrote about private object storage …

Who’s ready for an objective object lesson in object storage?

It’s changing how large storage infrastructures are implemented, so listen upIBM is planning to acquire CleverSafe, HGST bought Amplidata a while …

NAB 2017 storage roundup

Spent two days at the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) confab in Las Vegas. With 4k video everywhere, storage was a hot topic as …

Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region

We’d like to give you some additional information about the service disruption that occurred in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region on the …

Wasabi, Founded By Ex-Carbonite Team, Plans To Attack S3 Storage Market With Disruptive Price, Performance

Wasabi will initially come to the cloud storage market by marketing directly to businesses and consumers, but is preparing a program for managed …

Nutanix Brings Its HCI Software To HPE Servers, Adds New Appliance Rental Option

Nutanix Go, the program under which the company will offer its hyper-converged infrastructure appliances on a recurring basis, is all about offering …

Microsoft Cloud strength highlights third quarter results

AWS grabs $3.66 billion in revenue in Q1, 42% more than last year

In disclosing its financial results for the first quarter of this year today, ecommerce company Amazon said that its Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud business brought in $890 million in operating income on $3.66 billion in revenue during the quarter.<p>That means AWS revenue was up 42 percent …

Violin Memory Resurrected, Finds a Private Equity Buyer

Violin Memory had been waiting nervously for months, wondering what the future would hold. Finally, the answer came.<p>Violin Memory filed an SEC …

Data management startup Rubrik is raising up to $200M on a $1B valuation

Make way for another juggernaut amongst enterprise startups: Rubrik, a data backup company that only emerged from stealth in 2015, is in the process of raising between $150 million and $200 million on a valuation of $1 billion as the company enters a period of strong demand for its storage and data …

Microsoft, AWS and Google may have just started the next cloud computing price war

Cloud giants have started cutting prices again, but this time in new areas.<p>The giants of cloud computing may have kicked off a new price war, this …

IBM storage revenues grew? Hahaha, good one. Oh, you're serious

<b>Analysis</b> Despite falling server sales, IBM has reversed 22 quarters of decline in storage hardware revenue, offset by a leap in flash storage array …

Proprietary: Pure sticks to flash module design, becomes a direct flasher

Pure Storage has moved away from SSDs in giving its FlashArray an NVMe makeover, halving its latency and doubling its bandwidth.<p>The new FlashArray//X …