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Primary storage devices

• January 30, 2019 30 Jan'19

  University of Utah prescribes Hitachi storage for data woes

  University of Utah Health extends its Hitachi Vantara storage implementation, adding the Hitachi Content Platform object storage to modernize its data center.

• January 09, 2019 09 Jan'19

  Toshiba set to launch 16 TB HDD for cloud-scale users

  Toshiba will try to get a jump on rivals Seagate and Western Digital with a new 16 TB hard disk drive that targets cloud-scale users in need of low-cost, high-density storage.

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  Lagging Dell EMC midrange storage dampens upbeat earnings

  Dell EMC on Thursday reported nearly $4 billion in storage revenue in its most recent quarter, marking its third consecutive positive earnings in storage. But executives refrained from sharing ...

• November 27, 2018 27 Nov'18

  Newisys no longer, OEM wants to be a Viking in storage

  Sanmina Corp. subsidiary Newisys recently plunged into enterprise storage with an NVMe all-flash system. In a bid to extend its presence in storage, Newisys is now called Viking Enterprise ...

• September 12, 2018 12 Sep'18

  New enterprise 14 TB HDD options cater to cloud-scale users

  Enterprise-class 14 TB HDDs from Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital target cloud-scale users in need of economical, high-density storage to cope with exponential data growth.

• September 06, 2018 06 Sep'18

  Dell EMC midrange convergence due in 2019

  The long-awaited convergence of the Dell EMC midrange storage into one platform will happen in 2019, according to Dell Technologies’ chief storage honcho. Jeff Clarke, VP chairman of products and ...

• August 22, 2018 22 Aug'18

  Pure Storage all-flash beats street, adds StorReduce dedupe

  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 ...

• August 16, 2018 16 Aug'18

  Revenue from NetApp all-flash spikes on strong demand

  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 ...

• July 27, 2018 27 Jul'18

  Gartner: all-flash array market ‘visionaries’ include Tintri

  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 ...

• July 24, 2018 24 Jul'18

  Dell EMC midrange storage systems nudge a little closer

  Dell EMC keeps its Unity and SC midrange storage arrays on separate tracks, but shows early signs of eventually merging the platforms. Both get OS upgrades.

• July 02, 2018 02 Jul'18

  Dell and VMware hammer out deal, but no reverse merger

  Dell and VMware have taken a step – maybe only the first step – on a journey to fund Michael Dell’s on-again, off-again love affair with going public. Dell Technologies, parent company of storage ...

• June 04, 2018 04 Jun'18

  Dell EMC storage finally gains some post-merger market share

  Dell Technologies on Monday projected positive share growth in enterprise storage, the first quarter that has happened since the Dell and EMC merger closed in 2016. The next question is whether the ...

• May 01, 2018 01 May'18

  Dell EMC all-flash PowerMax replaces VMAX, injects NVMe

  Dell EMC rebrands its high-end, all-flash VMAX system as PowerMax, which is packed with NVMe flash and inline data reduction. A single system scales to 4 PB, with an onboard AI tiering engine.

• April 25, 2018 25 Apr'18

  Dell EMC storage strategy talk buzzes Dell Tech World

  Dell EMC World is no more. The combined vendor has renamed its annual user summit Dell Tech World, where data storage product upgrades will touch flash, HCI and software-defined.

• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  Storage sales make IBM blue

  After four straight quarters of growth, IBM storage hardware revenue crashed in the first quarter of 2018. IBM reported a 15% decline in storage hardware revenue, a drop that dragged the entire ...