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Storage virtualization
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Dell EMC storage IPO, VMware merger plans still unclear
- Senior News Writer 04 May 2018 -
Dell EMC: Big data lakes will like our Elastic Data Platform
- Senior News Writer 14 Nov 2017 -
Nutanix revenue jumps as competition grows
- Editorial News Director 05 Sep 2017
Dell Technologies World 2018 has come and gone with hardly a mention of the corporate reorganization Michael Dell and his team is considering as the next step after Dell’s $60 billion-plus 2017 ...
Dell EMC big data storage has a sharper focus. The vendor recently launched Elastic Data Platform (EDP), a series of reference architecture geared for Hadoop and related big data environments. EDP ...
Hyper-converged pioneer Nutanix grew revenue 72% in its first year as a public company. Nutanix revenue grew to $767 million during a span in which competition intensified. Dell EMC, Hewlett ...
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VMworld 2017 Notes: Dell favors storage R&D over M&A
- Editorial News Director 31 Aug 2017 -
Cisco buys Springpath, brings HCI software in-house
- Editorial News Director 21 Aug 2017 -
Unitrends backup appliance products get hyped for Nutanix
- TechTarget 16 Aug 2017 -
Nutanix .NEXT 2017 highlights HCI vendor's partners, frenemies
- Editorial News Director 06 Jul 2017 -
Nutanix .NEXT 2017: AHV takes on VMware; product roadmaps
- Editorial News Director 05 Jul 2017 -
Nutanix revenue, relationships grow
- Editorial News Director 25 May 2017 -
IBM to package Nutanix HCI software on Power Systems
- Editorial News Director 16 May 2017
LAS VEGAS -- Before their merger, EMC and Dell were active buyers of storage companies. In the past year, neither has made an acquisition. That’s understandable, considering the price that Dell ...
Cisco re-confirmed its hyper-converged infrastructure strategy today by acquiring its HCI software partner Springpath for $320 million. The Cisco HyperFlex HCI appliance consists of Springpath ...
Unitrends backup appliance products will go where some vendors have gone before -- supporting the Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor – while adding a cloud twist. The company's Recovery Series backup ...
While Google's new partnership with Nutanix received a lot of attention at Nutanix .NEXT 2017, other partners of the hyper-converged vendor also made news at the user conference. Google SVP of ...
Notes from last week's Nutanix .NEXT 2017 user conference: One knock against Nutanix is that its hyper-converged appliances cost more than competitors' products. But Nutanix executives say using ...
Nutanix’s success selling hyper-converged software depends largely on how well it both competes with and partners with the large server vendors. Nutanix revenue beat expectations last quarter, ...
Nutanix is making its hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software available on another server platform, this time with the server vendor’s full cooperation. Nutanix and IBM today disclosed an OEM ...
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Nutanix enterprise cloud strategy envelopes HPE, Cisco blades
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Nutanix revenue still growing for now
- Editorial News Director 03 Mar 2017 -
Cisco HyperFlex systems snap with Veeam
- Editorial News Director 03 Mar 2017 -
IBM happy to stay out of hyper-converged infrastructure market
- Editorial News Director 01 Mar 2017 -
NetApp hyper-converged entry: Better late than early?
- Editorial News Director 17 Feb 2017 -
Dell EMC VxRail hitches ride on Enterprise Hybrid Cloud
- Editorial News Director 16 Feb 2017 -
Pivot3 vSTAC sales soaring, CEO says
- Editorial News Director 07 Feb 2017 -
Nutanix adds oodles of customers and red ink
- Editorial News Director 30 Nov 2016 -
NetApp’s hyper-convergence answer? All-flash and CI arrays
- Editorial News Director 17 Nov 2016 -
FalconStor updates FreeStor, adopts new pricing model
- Senior News Writer 21 Oct 2016 -
SNIA panel: Docker data center deployments inch to primary storage
- Senior News Writer 11 Oct 2016 -
Maxta makes MxSP HCI software version perpetually free
- Senior News Writer 30 Sep 2016 -
EMC expects to pass Nutanix as HCI leader by mid-2017
- Editorial News Director 01 Sep 2016 -
Nutanix lines up partners to sell on Cisco UCS
- Editorial News Director 18 Aug 2016 -
HCI vendor Pivot3 reports more customers using more apps
- Editorial News Director 09 Aug 2016 -
EMC container plugin supports any block storage
- Senior News Writer 04 Aug 2016 -
HDS storage 'freezing' really a focus on future
- TechTarget 10 Jun 2016 -
Iguaz.io promises AWS-like storage in the data center
- Editorial News Director 09 Jun 2016 -
Gridstore chairman takes CEO reins
- Editorial News Director 05 May 2016 -
Gridstore to CEO: Great job, now get lost
- Editorial News Director 20 Apr 2016 -
Dell keeps hyper-converged options open
- Editorial News Director 05 Apr 2016 -
Pivot3 closes funding round to develop ‘new toys’
- Editorial News Director 17 Mar 2016 -
HPE's Whitman grows hyper for hyper-converged
- Editorial News Director 04 Mar 2016 -
Hyper-converged vendor Gridstore picks up funding for expansion
- Editorial News Director 27 Jan 2016 -
Pivot3 buys NexGen, combines hyper-converged with all-flash storage
- Editorial News Director 27 Jan 2016 -
Veeam kicks off 2016 with V9 GA
- Senior News Writer 18 Jan 2016 -
SimpliVity cozies up to Microsoft, Hyper-V
- Editorial News Director 05 Jan 2016 -
Nutanix prepares for 2016 IPO
- Editorial News Director 23 Dec 2015 -
HDS extends VSP virtualized storage, moves into hyper-convergence
- Editorial News Director 28 Apr 2015 -
Defining storage virtualization
- Evaluator Group 04 Mar 2014
Nutanix took two steps today to paint itself as more of an enterprise cloud player. First, it added Hewlett Packard Enterprise ProLiant rackmount servers and Cisco UCS B-Series blade servers to its ...
In its early days, Nutanix's biggest challenge was convincing people that hyper-converged appliances were a better fit for their organizations than traditional server/storage systems. Now that ...
Virtual backup specialist Veeam Software is treating hyper-converged Cisco HyperFlex systems the same way it treats storage arrays when it comes to snapshots. Veeam's direct snapshots will work ...
"You can be a purist and say what we do is converged, not hyper-converged, but it’s about the job you’re trying to do. The two worlds are blending together," Walsh said..
NetApp is entering the hyper-convergence arena with the latecomer's cry: We may be last into the market, but we'll be the best. Emboldened by the recent strong revenue growth of its late-to-market ...
Dell EMC’s VxRail turned one today, and the vendor marked the anniversary by adding the hyper-converged platform to its Enterprise Hybrid Cloud package. Dell EMC claims over 1,000 customers for ...
Hyper-converged vendor Pivot3 said it more than tripled its revenue in the fourth quarter of 2016 from the previous year, and grew total revenue 84% in 2016 from 2015. Pivot3's growth came in part ...
In its first quarter as a public company, hyper-converged pioneer Nutanix recorded substantial revenue gains while continuing to suffer heavy losses. CEO Dheeraj Pandey said the increase in sales ...
NetApp’s hyper-convergence strategy is to address that market through FlexPod and SolidFire. FlexPod is the NetApp-Cisco converged infrastructure program, and SolidFire is the all-flash array ...
FalconStor Software took aim at hybrid cloud deployments with a new pricing model and product upgrade for its FreeStor storage virtualization and block-based data services. The Melville, NY-based ...
Enterprise storage containers aren’t about to supplant virtual machines, but the trend line for Docker data center adoption is going up. Hurdles of persistent storage and enterprise data ...
Software-only hyper-converged startup Maxta today formally unveiled a free perpetual license option for its MxSP software, following a registration drive launched during VMworld 2016. MxSP is ...
“We consider Nutanix No. 1 today," EMC's Jeremy Burton said. "Our goal is to get to No. 1 by the end of the year. We think it’s doable, although it would be a stretch. If it’s not by the end of ...
Nutanix, which has OEM deals with server vendors Dell and Lenovo, is now selling its software on Cisco UCS servers through channel partners. Nutanix today revealed it has independently validated ...
Pivot3 more than doubled its revenue in the first half of 2016 over 2015, which its CEO attributes to customers buying its hyper-converged appliances as a platform rather than for single ...
EMC has contributed an open source Apache Mesos container volume driver that supports any network-attached block storage system equipped with a Docker plugin, including storage of EMC competitors. ...
There has been some noise in the storage space lately, based on the English translation of a Japanese IT website that said Hitachi Data Systems was "freezing" investment in its high-end storage ...
Newcomer iguaz.io is the latest software startup that will try and deliver the Holy Grail of storage -- the ability to provision and manage on-premise capacity the same way as in Amazon Web ...
Gridstore chairman Nairman Teymourian took over as CEO today, with plans to install a utility services model for delivering hyper-convergence. Teymourian has been Gridstore’s chairman since ...
Gridstore apparently grew so fast under CEO George Symons that its board decided to change CEOs to keep up with the rapid growth. Gridstore founder and CTO Kelly Murphy has moved back into the CEO ...
Still months away from closing its $67 billion acquisition of EMC, Dell today said it would immediately start reselling several EMC federation converged products and updated others it already ...
Hyper-converged vendor Pivot3 closed a $55 million funding round this week to support expansion following a merger with flash array vendor NexGen Storage. Pivot3 CEO Ron Nash said the bulk of the ...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is planning to go after Nutanix and other hyper-converged vendors with an appliance based on its ProLiant server line. HPE CEO Meg Whitman revealed the vendor’s ...
Gridstore closed a $19 million funding round today with plans to substantially expand engineering and sales of its all-flash hyper-converged systems built for Microsoft Hyper-V. The round brings ...
Hyper-converged vendor Pivot3 today acquired hybrid flash vendor NexGen Storage, combining small private companies that play in two hot technology areas. NexGen CEO and founder John Spiers said the ...
Veeam Software has started off the year by making Veeam Availability Suite 9 generally available to customers. The software has more than 250 features, according to Veeam. While the data protection ...
Hyper-converged pioneer SimpliVity has opened a research and development office in Seattle near to Microsoft, a sign that it is close to adding Hyper-V support. SimpliVity’s OmniCube appliances ...
Hyper-converged vendor Nutanix set itself up to become the first storage vendor to go public in 2016. Nutanix filed an S-1 statement, which is the first step towards an initial public offering ...
LAS VEGAS -- Hitachi Data Systems opened its HDS Connect conference today with smaller versions of its flagship Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) storage array and two hyper-converged systems. The ...
The term storage virtualization has been with us since 1999, and the concept continues with new product offerings that are variations of the original. The longevity of storage virtualization in a ...