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Pure Storage revenue growth belies NAND pricing worries
- Senior News Writer 22 Aug 2019 -
Toshiba to rename flash memory business Kioxia
- Senior News Writer 18 Jul 2019 -
Pure Storage points flash at AWS cloud
- Editorial News Director 20 Nov 2018
Pure Storage earnings were a mixed bag this week. The flash storage vendor said revenues grew 28% last quarter, but it cut revenue guidance for the second consecutive call, blaming imbalanced NAND ...
"Their rationale must have been that they wanted to keep the washing machines and the hard drives with the same company because they both spin around."
Pure Storage’s earnings report painted a sunny picture of revenues at the same time as the flash pioneer unveiled a cloudy focus on its product direction. Pure beat Wall Street expectations with a ...
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NetApp revenue keeps growing, but not as much
- Editorial News Director 15 Nov 2018 -
NetApp Insight: Yes, NetApp still sells hardware
- Editorial News Director 30 Oct 2018 -
NetApp Insight 2018: A primer on storage for AI, flash-enabled cloud
- Senior News Writer 19 Oct 2018 -
NetApp Kubernetes Service launched to orchestrate containers
- Senior News Writer 21 Sep 2018 -
Tintri bankruptcy deal gives DataDirect an enterprise path
- Senior News Writer 29 Aug 2018 -
Pure Storage all-flash beats street, adds StorReduce dedupe
- Senior News Writer 22 Aug 2018 -
Revenue from NetApp all-flash spikes on strong demand
- Senior News Writer 16 Aug 2018
NetApp beat its guidance and analysts’ expectations for last quarter’s revenue and income, and also exceeded expectations for technology buzzwords used during its earnings call. “Our opportunity is ...
At the end of the final keynote at NetApp Insight last week, founder Dave Hitz decided to add some sanity lest people get the wrong idea about the vendor’s strategy. Hitz summed up the message at ...
LAS VEGAS-NetApp expects about 5,000 customers and partners to gather here Monday as it lays out a roadmap for flash-enabled AI and cloud applications. NetApp Insight 2018 marks the fifth year the ...
NetApp launched its Data Fabric architecture to adapt its storage to manage applications built for the cloud. Container orchestration had largely been a missing aspect in Data Fabric, but the ...
After weeks of uncertainty, the Tintri bankruptcy saga has been resolved. DataDirect Networks (DDN) said it will pay nearly $60 million for Tintri and plans to reveal the product roadmap by ...
Pure Storage all-flash sales helped the vendor close a strong quarter in July, generating $309 million to beat its top-end guidance. The revenue figure represents a 37% increase from the $224.7 ...
Demand for NetApp all-flash storage surged last quarter, part of strong growth across its cloud portfolio that helped it beat guidance on earnings, margins and revenue. And the storage vendor has ...
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You'll never guess what people use Pure's FlashBlade to do
- Editorial News Director 14 Aug 2018 -
Kaminario storage goes for a run on Western Digital OpenFlex
- Senior News Writer 13 Aug 2018 -
Violin Systems prepares NVMe launch, but not for drives
- Editorial News Director 13 Aug 2018 -
Gartner: all-flash array market ‘visionaries’ include Tintri
- Senior News Writer 27 Jul 2018 -
Toshiba, Western Digital start shift to 96-layer BiCS flash
- Senior News Writer 25 Jul 2018 -
With Tintri layoffs, hybrid vendor waves a final goodbye
- Senior News Writer 29 Jun 2018 -
Tintri CEO Barton tells board: ‘I'm outta here’
- Senior News Writer 19 Jun 2018 -
The Tintri storage hourglass is almost out of sand
- Senior News Writer 12 Jun 2018 -
NetApp CEO: Dell EMC ‘years behind’ us on flash, cloud
- Editorial News Director 24 May 2018 -
HPE storage still on its Nimble high
- Editorial News Director 23 May 2018 -
Pure Storage: flash is a means, not an end, to shared data
- Senior News Writer 22 May 2018 -
Pavilion Data gets funded for NVMe-oF push
- Editorial News Director 21 May 2018 -
Veeam and Pure Storage team up on data protection, production
- TechTarget 18 Apr 2018 -
Symbolic IO becomes Formulus Black
- Editorial News Director 21 Mar 2018 -
New Tintri CEO Tom Barton set to take the reins in April
- Senior News Writer 14 Mar 2018 -
Tintri flash sales won't keep CEO Klein in job much longer
- Senior News Writer 06 Mar 2018 -
Pure Storage revenue tops $1 billion, says ‘hello’ to profit
- Senior News Writer 02 Mar 2018 -
Intel P4510 U.2 SSD ships with 64-layer TLC 3D NAND
- Senior News Writer 15 Feb 2018 -
NetApp cloud-flash pivot brings cheers
- Senior News Writer 15 Feb 2018 -
NVMe flash hopeful E8 Storage goes software-only route
- Senior News Writer 08 Feb 2018 -
Kaminario storage jettisons hardware for software-only cloud model
- Senior News Writer 29 Jan 2018 -
Annual IBM revenue rises, thanks to cloud, flash storage
- Senior News Writer 22 Jan 2018 -
Tintri cloud forecast: stormy, with slight chance of revenue
- Senior News Writer 14 Dec 2017 -
NVMe-focused Toshiba storage node software due in '18
- Senior News Writer 14 Dec 2017 -
Western Digital-Toshiba flash clash ends
- Editorial News Director 13 Dec 2017 -
Pure Storage revenue boost puts it on ‘march to profit’
- Editorial News Director 29 Nov 2017 -
Like its CEO, HPE storage in transition phase
- Editorial News Director 26 Nov 2017 -
NetApp revenue rides flash gravy train
- Editorial News Director 16 Nov 2017 -
Western Digital CEO vows to block Toshiba NAND sale
- Editorial News Director 27 Oct 2017 -
Enter Your Great Storage Product in the Products of the Year Competition
- Vice President of Editorial 18 Sep 2017 -
Toshiba memory business sale points to Bain-led consortium
- Senior News Writer 14 Sep 2017 -
Tintri revenue misses target, but earnings are a surprise
- Senior News Writer 07 Sep 2017 -
HPE storage more Nimble after $1.2 billion buy
- Editorial News Director 06 Sep 2017 -
Elastifile grabs $16M to stretch sales staff
- Editorial News Director 06 Sep 2017 -
Pure Storage CEO swap: Dietzen out, Giancarlo in
- Editorial News Director 25 Aug 2017 -
Flash Memory Summit 2017: Flash really on fire
- Editorial News Director 11 Aug 2017 -
WD-Toshiba memory sale requires 2-week notice to WD
- Senior News Writer 28 Jul 2017 -
Symbolic IO CEO Ignomirello arrested on assault charges
- Senior News Writer 21 Jul 2017 -
IBM flash storage and cloud rare revenue bright spots
- Senior News Writer 21 Jul 2017 -
With trepidation, Tintri storage takes Nasdaq plunge
- Senior News Writer 30 Jun 2017 -
Tintri IPO aims at lower share price
- Senior News Writer 29 Jun 2017 -
IBM DS8880 arrays lift mainframe archiving to the cloud
- Senior News Writer 29 Jun 2017 -
FlexPod SF converges NetApp SolidFire onto Cisco hardware
- Editorial News Director 22 Jun 2017 -
Pure Accelerate 2017 closes San Francisco warehouse in style
- Senior News Writer 19 Jun 2017 -
HPE storage looks to Nimble, SimpliVity for jolt
- Editorial News Director 01 Jun 2017 -
NetApp pockets Plexistor, nonvolatile memory software
- Editorial News Director 25 May 2017 -
Pure Storage flash lineup could be billion-dollar baby
- Editorial News Director 25 May 2017 -
Seagate sees 10 TB drives as sweet spot
- Editorial News Director 28 Apr 2017 -
IBM flash storage helps snap 22-quarter downslide
- Editorial News Director 21 Apr 2017 -
Tegile funding round gives it $33 million for NVMe push
- Editorial News Director 11 Apr 2017 -
Reduxio Systems snares venture funds, moves closer to IPO
- Senior News Writer 22 Mar 2017 -
Enterprise HDDs launch from Seagate, Toshiba
- Senior News Writer 13 Mar 2017 -
HPE’s Nimble Storage acquisition expands its struggling portfolio
- Editorial News Director 07 Mar 2017 -
Pure Storage revenue results rosy, guidance thorny
- Editorial News Director 02 Mar 2017 -
HPE storage sales slipped sharply in late 2016
- Editorial News Director 24 Feb 2017 -
Kaminario secures $75 million funding round
- Senior News Writer 11 Jan 2017 -
Violin Memory's sad song leads to bankruptcy
- Editorial News Director 14 Dec 2016 -
Western Digital shows gains from acquisitions
- Editorial News Director 08 Dec 2016 -
HPE launches flash, SMB storage updates
- Senior News Writer 30 Nov 2016 -
Pure Storage: We’re NVMe-ready
- Editorial News Director 16 Nov 2016 -
WD claims strong demand for HDDs, flash with cloud customers
- Senior News Writer 31 Oct 2016 -
NetApp carries Toshiba's self-encrypting SSDs
- Senior News Writer 27 Oct 2016 -
HPE launches new XP7 based on Hitachi technology
- Editorial News Director 25 Oct 2016 -
Dell EMC's making XtremIO multi-protocol
- Editorial News Director 20 Oct 2016 -
Dell EMC to 'stay the course' with flash storage portfolio
- Senior News Writer 30 Sep 2016 -
Violin Memory's latest quarter to forget
- Editorial News Director 09 Sep 2016 -
Diablo flash DIMM partnership woos server makers
- Senior News Writer 08 Sep 2016 -
Nutanix expands, pockets PernixData, Calm.io
- Editorial News Director 28 Aug 2016 -
Pure Storage: We do flash better than those geezers
- Editorial News Director 26 Aug 2016 -
Nimble says customers quick to embrace all-flash
- Editorial News Director 24 Aug 2016 -
NetApp sells more flash, spends less
- Editorial News Director 19 Aug 2016 -
Solid-state drives bulk up for capacity
- Editorial News Director 12 Aug 2016 -
SCSI trade group claims new SAS has pluses over NVMe/PCIe
- Senior News Writer 11 Aug 2016 -
RDMA over Fabrics: a big step for SSD access
- Evaluator Group 22 Jul 2016 -
Seagate brings back Barracuda with new 10TB hard disk drives
- Senior News Writer 20 Jul 2016 -
Diablo Technologies scores another court win over Netlist
- Senior News Writer 15 Jul 2016 -
How to measure flash storage's true value
- Evaluator Group 28 Jun 2016 -
IDC: NetApp jumps to No. 2 in Q1 all-flash
- Senior News Writer 10 Jun 2016 -
Pure Storage's impressive sales growth diluted by losses
- Editorial News Director 27 May 2016 -
NetApp launches Ontap 9 for flash, cloud
- Editorial News Director 26 May 2016 -
Violin Memory's struggles continue
- Editorial News Director 25 May 2016 -
EMC goes Nitro with all-flash Isilon array
- Editorial News Director 04 May 2016 -
Pure founder: FlashBlade has more potential than FlashArray
- Editorial News Director 21 Apr 2016 -
EMC sales decline, says Dell deal on track
- Editorial News Director 20 Apr 2016 -
Red Hat Ceph optimized for SanDisk InfiniFlash storage
- Senior News Writer 31 Mar 2016 -
Violin Memory fuses with Stream, creates FlashSync
- Editorial News Director 24 Mar 2016 -
HPE turns 3PAR array from all-flash to hybrid
- Senior News Writer 15 Mar 2016 -
Violin Memory receives no offers, makes few sales in Q4
- Editorial News Director 11 Mar 2016 -
Seagate demos fast, dense PCIe SSDs that support OCP specs, NVMe
- Senior News Writer 09 Mar 2016 -
Nimble’s all-flash investment causes pain before gain
- Editorial News Director 04 Mar 2016
Pure Storage is finding a use case for its FlashBlade array that no one expected when the all-flash system for unstructured data launched in 2016. Brian Schwarz, VP of product management for ...
Kaminario storage continues to push farther and farther away from its reliance on purpose-built hardware. The all-flash vendor has qualified its consumption-based Cloud Fabric software for Western ...
Violin Systems will make its first platform launch since its resurrection when it brings out a flash array with NVMe support on the front end for host connectivity in September. Violin CEO Mark ...
Several vendors with spotty fiscal histories made Gartner’s list of competitors angling for all-flash array market share. Gartner listed Tintri as a “visionary” in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for ...
New 96-layer 3D NAND flash memory is starting to roll out that can store more data per chip and potentially lower per-bit storage costs over 64- and 32-layer technologies. Toshiba Memory America ...
A new round of Tintri layoffs has cost 200 people their jobs, including its top sales executive, as the hybrid vendor winds down operations. The move leaves Tintri with about 40 to 50 ...
The captain of fast-sinking Tintri has abandoned ship, just three months after he came aboard as a lifesaver. Tintri CEO Thomas Barton, 54, informed the board of his decision on Monday, according ...
Time is winding down for Tintri, whose slow-motion fall could come by the end of June. The remaining question is whether the publicly traded hybrid storage vendor can complete a last-second Hail ...
NetApp CEO George Kurian says things have never been better for the storage vendor since he joined the company in 2011. Kurian maintains NetApp’s all-flash platform is a hit, it’s the first major ...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise extended its impressive storage turnaround last quarter. For the second straight quarter, HPE storage revenue increased 24% year-over-year – jumping to $912 million for ...
SAN FRANCISCO – Pure Storage will push the theme of a “data-centric architecture” at its annual Accelerate user conference that begins Wednesday. Data-centric architecture is Pure’s description for ...
As all-flash array pioneer Pure Storage celebrates its $1 billion in annual revenues, two of its former executives are planning the next big thing in flash. Pavilion Data, whose CEO Gurpreet Singh ...
Four months after the release of Veeam's Universal Storage API, Veeam and Pure Storage have teamed up to streamline data protection and storage, and speed recovery. The integration -- initiated ...
Symbolic IO has changed its name as part of “complete rebranding” months after its founder was arrested on a domestic violence charge. Symbolic IO is now called Formulus Black. The company made no ...
Tintri wasted little time finding a CEO to try and boost its sagging fortunes. On Tuesday, the hybrid flash vendor named IT veteran Thomas Barton as successor to Tintri CEO Ken Klein, who announced ...
Popularity of Tintri E6000 flash storage helped the vendor beat quarterly revenue and earnings estimates on Monday, but muting the upbeat tone was news of layoffs and CEO Ken Klein’s decision to ...
Pure Storage has joined the billion-dollar club. On Thursday, the all-flash provider completed two long-sought goals by posting fiscal-year revenue of $1.023 billion, up 41%, en route to achieving ...
Intel launched a new P4510 Series of U.2 solid-state drives (SSDs) equipped with its 64-layer triple-level cell (TLC) 3D NAND flash and enhanced firmware, enabling greater storage density and lower ...
NetApp attributed strong product revenue growth last quarter in part to two-a-days – it’s averaging two displacements of rivals’ all-flash SAN systems every day. Success in NetApp cloud and flash ...
All-flash array startup E8 Storage has expanded into reference architecture with the launch of a software-only version. The new product, E8 Storage Software, runs on rack servers from Dell EMC, ...
Kaminario is the latest vendor to deemphasize hardware in favor of a solely software-defined approach. Under its new strategy, customers will buy Kaminario storage as a reference stack from global ...
Aided by gains in cognitive analytics, cloud and storage, annual IBM revenue has finally returned to positive territory after an absence of nearly six years. IBM last week closed its 2017 fiscal ...
Flash storage vendor Tintri has had an inauspicious start to life as a public company. On Wednesday, during only its second earnings call, there were hints that Tintri may already be on life ...
Toshiba plans to deliver storage node software designed to extend the high performance and low latency benefits of NVMe-based solid-state drives over a network fabric. Toshiba Memory America’s ...
Western Digital and Toshiba settled their NAND dispute with an out-of-court settlement that allows Toshiba’s sale of its NAND chip business while WD keeps its stake in the companies’ joint venture. ...
Pure Storage hit a home run in its first quarter under CEO Charlie Giancarlo. Pure Storage revenue of $278 million last month exceeded the high point of its guidance and increased 41% from last ...
Meg Whitman says it’s time for “a new generation” to take over Hewlett Packard Enterprise. She was talking about the CEO change when she made that comment during the company’s earnings call last ...
NetApp is showing a legacy storage array vendor can still increase revenue impressively during these days of scant storage growth. NetApp Wednesday night reported its fourth straight quarter of ...
Western Digital CEO Steve Milligan said he remains confident his company will win its fight to prevent its NAND manufacturing joint venture partner Toshiba from selling its memory chip unit without ...
In just a few days, the door will shut—and your outstanding data storage product will be left standing out in the cold rather than in the running for a Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Storage ...
The Toshiba memory business could be sold to a Bain Capital-led consortium that reportedly includes Apple, Dell Technologies and Seagate if the parties can strike a deal that passes legal muster ...
Private enterprise cloud specialist Tintri Inc. on Thursday posted mixed financial results in its first earnings call since going public in June. The bottom line: lackluster Tintri revenue was ...
HPE storage sales received a boost last quarter from its $1.2 bilion Nimble Storage acquisition. HPE did not break out its total storage revenue by product, or even give a total amount except to ...
Startup Elastifile, which sells a distributed file system that spans flash and cloud storage tiers, picked up $16 million in funding today. The startup also gained a new strategic investor in ...
Pure Storage CEO Scott Dietzen resigned unexpectedly Thursday, as the all-flash pioneer named former Cisco executive Charlie Giancarlo its new leader. Dietzen will stay at Pure as chairman, ...
Any claims that "flash is on fire" at Flash Memory Summit 2017 this week drew awkward glances, nervous laughs or groans. That's because one flash system literally caught fire, causing the ...
Toshiba and Western Digital's SanDisk subsidiary acted on a San Francisco judge's suggestion today and agreed that Toshiba would give SanDisk two weeks' notice before closing on a transfer or sale ...
Symbolic IO, identified as one of SearchStorage’s storage startups to watch in 2017, now bears watching for different reasons than the other vendors on the list. Brian Ignomirello, 46, the Symbolic ...
While IBM's revenue dropped for the 21st straight quarter, its storage business proved a bright spot. Following its own 22-quarter slump, IBM storage is now on a two-quarter winning streak. During ...
Tintri heads into the July 4 holiday wearing a new status symbol: publicly traded company. Still, it's initial public offering came a day late and $40 million short. Shares in Tintri storage ...
The Tintri IPO remains a go for now, but the flash vendor now expects less of a financial windfall than originally anticipated. The vendor's long-awaited initial public offering (IPO) of stock ...
IBM Storage has closed the loop on its Transparent Cloud Tiering software by adding it to IBM DS8880 arrays for archival storage of mainframe data. The Transparent Cloud Tiering (TCT) microcode ...
SUNNYVALE, California -- NetApp today launched its second SolidFire-based converged product this month, this time in partnership with Cisco. The FlexPod SF extends the FlexPod converged ...
At its Pure Accelerate 2017 conference this week, Pure Storage gave a new interpretation to the term data warehouse. A reported 3,000 analysts, customers and resellers gathered in a ...
Recent Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) storage acquisitions will play a key role in “reengineering” the company, CEO Meg Whitman said. During HPE’s earnings call Wednesday night, Whitman called ...
NetApp quietly slipped an acquisition of storage memory software startup Plexistor into an earnings call otherwise noteworthy for strong results last quarter and a disappointing forecast for this ...
Pure Storage executives claim the flash pioneer is on pace for $1 billion in revenue for 2017, plus its first profitable quarter by the end of the year. Neither goal is assured, but both seem ...
While much of the storage world is talking up NVM Express and other flash technologies, Seagate is pushing ahead with shingled magnetic recording, heat-assisted magnetic recording and large ...
IBM storage sales rose in the first quarter of 2017, for the first time in more than five years. IBM snapped a 22-quarter string of storage declines on the strength of flash hardware and ...
Tegile Systems closed a $33 million funding round that the flash array vendor intends to use to invest heavily in NVMe, the next big thing in solid-state storage. Like other flash vendors, Tegile ...
Storage startup Reduxio Systems has bulked up its venture capital, a stepping stone to a potential IPO. On Monday, the hybrid flash vendor nabbed $22.5 million in Series C financing from private ...
Flash may dominate the storage headlines, but there are still signs of life with HDDs. Seagate showed off 12 TB helium-based enterprise HDDs at last week's Open Compute Project Summit in Santa ...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise today made its second major storage acquisition of 2017, spending $1.2 billion on all-flash and hybrid array vendor Nimble Storage. The Nimble Storage acquisition comes ...
Pure Storage revealed two surprises during its fourth quarter earnings call. One the plus side, the all-flash vendor exceeded its forecast and expectations for revenue during the quarter and all of ...
Storage is among the casualties of Hewlett Packard Enterprise's struggles following the break-up of Hewlett-Packard. The vendor reported HPE storage revenue declined 12% year-over-year to $730 ...
All-flash array pioneer Kaminario kicked off 2017 with a cash infusion of $75 million to accelerate global expansion and fuel product support for non-volatile memory express (NVMe) technologies. ...
Cash-bleeding all-flash array vendor Violin Memory today filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and will seek to sell off its assets at an auction next month. After years of financial problems, Violin ...
Western Digital told financial analysts its business will be better than expected this quarter, and added solid-state drives (SSDs), hard-disk drives (HDDs) and an all-flash array platform to its ...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) rolled out a new 3PAR flash pricing initiative and StoreEasy file storage enhancements as part of a late-year rush of storage product releases. HPE last week ...
Pure Storage isn’t riding the NVMe bandwagon yet, but it has reserved a seat. Pure promises its customers they can upgrade all new FlashArray//M systems to NVMe by the end of 2017 through the ...
Western Digital reported revenue of $4.7 billion in the first full quarter after its SanDisk acquisition closed, claiming demand was strong for hard drives and flash-based products with cloud and ...
NetApp is the first storage vendor to sell Toshiba’s new highly secure solid-state drives (SSDs). NetApp hybrid FAS and E-Series arrays will include Toshiba PXO4S 12 Gb per second SAS SSDs, built ...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise launched its high-end enterprise storage array upgade today at the same time as Hitachi Data Systems. The HPE XP7 and HDS Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) use the same ...
EMC’s XtremIO all-flash SAN is getting a file-system injection thanks to Dell Fluid File System (FluidFS). Dell EMC previewed the NAS capabilities for XtremIO at Dell EMC World, saying they would ...
Dell EMC plans to “stay the course” with its flash storage portfolio despite overlapping products at the midrange and low end, an executive at the newly combined company confirmed. Daniel Cobb, a ...
With time and money running out, Violin Memory next week will take another shot at launching a successful all-flash array. It might be its last shot – Violin doesn’t have enough money to last ...
Diablo Technologies and American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) partnered on memory channel flash storage servers for more than a year. The first fruits of the collaboration bloomed this week when AMI ...
Nutanix, the hyper-converged vendor that may go public within weeks, is expanding its technology base through two software acquisitions. Nutanix Monday will officially disclose acquisitions of ...
When it comes to all-flash storage, Pure Storage claims experience is no match for youth. Pure, born in 2011 as a flash-only vendor, is far outgrowing the storage establishment, a collection of ...
Nimble Storage, which was relatively late selling all-flash arrays, is trying to make up for lost time since launching its Predictive Flash platform in February. The vendor received a jolt from ...
NetApp made great progress last quarter with its sales of all-flash storage, Clustered Data OnTap (CDOT) and cost-cutting measures. NetApp Wednesday reported better revenue and income results than ...
SANTA CLARA, California -- Solid-state drives have been much faster than hard disk drives from the start, and now they’re dwarfing HDDs in capacity too. At Flash Memory Summit this week, Seagate ...
NVMe and PCIe solid-state drives (SSDs) may be a hot topic at this week’s Flash Memory Summit, but the SCSI Trade Association is trying to remind everyone that new serial-attached SCSI (SAS) ...
Shared storage access for servers has been the most basic requirement for storage networks. Performance demands for multiple systems accessing data continually increase due to improvements in ...
Seagate resurrected the BarraCuda brand name with its latest lineup of 10 TB hard disk drives. The high-capacity drives, unofficially called the Guardian series, include the BarraCuda computer hard ...
Diablo Technologies chalked up another legal victory over Netlist this week, although Netlist’s separate patent infringement lawsuit remains unresolved. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal ...
Flash storage, or using the broader term, solid-state storage, suffers from an inadequate measure of value. Flash storage provides a step-function improvement in the ability to store and retrieve ...
EMC remained No. 1 and NetApp jumped to No. 2 in all-flash array (AFA) revenue for the first quarter of 2016, according to IDC’s new market share statistics. EMC had $245.6 million in revenue and ...
Pure Storage is finding that it’s expensive to grow sales in the all-flash storage market these days. While Pure increased revenue last quarter by 89% year-over-year, it was unable to reduce its ...
With the worst part of its Clustered Data Ontap (CDOT) challenges behind it, NetApp is bringing out the next version of its Ontap storage operating system. Ontap 9 will focus on flash, coming as ...
Violin Memory had little to show for its turnaround efforts last quarter. The all-flash vendor’s revenue declined and it continue to lose money, prompting the CEO to tell investors he feels their ...
LAS VEGAS -- EMC dropped a surprise at EMC World today by previewing an all-flash version of its Isilon clustered NAS system. C.J. Desai, president of EMC's Emerging Technologies Division, said ...
Since introducing its FlashArray all-flash SAN array in 2012, Pure Storage has sold more than $600 million worth of a type of storage array that didn’t exist before Pure was born. The man who led ...
EMC’s storage sales declined more than expected last quarter as the vendor waits to become part of Dell. EMC executives offered several reasons for the drop in sales, but not the most obvious one. ...
Red Hat Ceph Storage software is now officially tested, optimized and certified to run on SanDisk’s InfiniFlash storage system thanks to a strategic partnership between the two vendors. The ...
Violin Memory is trying to push its all-flash arrays into the financial services market through a partnership with U.K. software vendor Stream Financial. The vendors have combined to launch what ...
For years we’ve seen storage vendors take systems designed for hard disk drives (HDDs) and add solid-state drives (SSDs) to them. Now Hewlett Packard Enterprise is taking hardware that ran all SSDs ...
Violin Memory finished its hunt for a buyer without a deal. It did land a few partnerships, while shedding a quarter of its workforce and closing few sales of its all-flash storage arrays. Violin ...
Seagate is demonstrating a new PCI Express (PCIe) flash drive this week at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit that it claims meets OCP specifications and delivers throughput of 10 gigabytes per ...
Even as it waits for its new all-flash array (AFA) to hit the market, Nimble Storage did better than expected last quarter. However, its forecast for this quarter was below expectations, with the ...