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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 29, 2018 29 Nov'18

Hedvig storage gives university more replication, redundancy

Located in the center of Tornado Alley, Pittsburg State University in Kansas gave heavy weight to redundancy and replication before acquiring Hedvig software-defined storage.

November 29, 2018 29 Nov'18

Actifio revenue up, seeks to align with DevOps, cloud

Actifio is looking to ride a DevOps wave to an initial public offering, but for now the data management vendor is concentrating on bolstering support of its customers and channel partners. Actifio, ...

November 28, 2018 28 Nov'18

Dell EMC AI reference architecture builds on Isilon all-flash

For its AI product strategy, Dell EMC is pursuing the same approach it takes with other storage products. Namely, that it’s better to have multiples of similar storage gear than to leave a gap in ...

November 28, 2018 28 Nov'18

Nutanix Xi launches as long-term AWS challenger

While Amazon holds court at re:Invent in Las Vegas this week, hyper-converged pioneer Nutanix launched services that it hopes can eventually challenge the public cloud giant. Nutanix used its ...

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 ...

November 21, 2018 21 Nov'18

Quobyte wins Points for Kubernetes storage

Points International's storage revamp for Kubernetes includes Dell EMC servers running solid-state drives and a distributed file system from startup Quobyte.

November 20, 2018 20 Nov'18

Pure Storage points flash at AWS cloud

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 ...

November 19, 2018 19 Nov'18

In-vehicle mobile data storage is Quantum's next target

Quantum Mobile Storage is designed to capture vehicle data from self-driving cars and easily offload it to a Quantum StorNext appliance. It's built to handle harsh, mobile environments.

November 19, 2018 19 Nov'18

Kaseya backup integrations a 'Done Deal'

The Kaseya backup line is growing, following the company's acquisitions of two data protection vendors. Now Kaseya is adding a program that guarantees customers to managed service providers. In ...

November 15, 2018 15 Nov'18

NetApp revenue keeps growing, but not as much

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 ...

November 14, 2018 14 Nov'18

Panasas ActiveStor chases Lustre users with portable PanFS

With ActiveStor Ultra, Panasas ports its PanFS parallel file systems to Linux. The vendor's plans include OEM server deals to sell PanFS on commodity gear for HPC customers.

November 13, 2018 13 Nov'18

Western Digital Ultrastar DC ME200 optimizes memory storage

Western Digital extends its Ultrastar SSD line, adding a software-defined layer for fast in-memory computing. An onboard hypervisor mounts the storage capacity as usable memory.

November 13, 2018 13 Nov'18

ClearSky Data POPs corks over $20M funding

ClearSky Data today scored $20 million in funding and a partnership with Equinix to expand coverage for its managed storage services. New investor Pear Tree Partners participated in the funding ...

November 12, 2018 12 Nov'18

Micron's SATA-based QLC SSDs take aim at 10K HDDs

Micron targets 10,000 rpm HDDs in read-intensive enterprise workloads with new 5210 ION quad-level cell SSD that stores 33% more bits per cell than triple-level cell NAND flash.

November 06, 2018 06 Nov'18

Maxta aims to bring AI to HCI with MxIQ

Maxta is bringing predictive analytics into hyper-convergence. Maxta Hyperconvergence software runs on x86 hardware using VMware or Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization hypervisors to create ...

November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

Virtual Instruments makes VirtualWisdom proactive

A major update to Virtual Instruments' infrastructure management product adds proactive analytics, predictive capacity capabilities, interactive topology maps and iSCSI support.

November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

Nutanix shines Beam into private cloud

Nutanix is extending the Beam capability it launched six months ago for Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure into private clouds running on Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure. Nutanix Beam ...

October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

NetApp Cloud Volumes gives new wrinkle to OnTap file storage

NetApp appends services to Data Fabric that aim to help enterprises flexibly manage their data between local storage and public clouds, including AWS, Azure and Google.

October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

Pivot3 spins larger HCI deals

If Pivot3 is a valid indicator, the hyper-converged market is not only adding customers rapidly, it’s also moving into far bigger deals. Pivot3 was among the first hyper-converged vendors, and the ...

October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

Excelero NVMesh 2 supports TCP/IP, Fibre Channel

Excelero's software-defined storage extends NVMe over fabrics support to TCP/IP and Fibre Channel, but the startup isn't abandoning NVMe over RDMA with its NVMesh 2.

October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

Commvault staggers under weight of 'massive changes'

While going through a transition period, data protection vendor Commvault’s sales are still taking a hit. Commvault’s revenue for last quarter of $169.1 million fell $10 million below Wall Street ...

October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

Veeam CEO shakeup: Co-founder in, McKay out

Veeam Software has reshuffled its executive team, promoting co-founder Andrei Baronov to CEO, while Peter McKay is no longer with the data protection company after 2 ½ years as an executive, ...

October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

NetApp Insight: Yes, NetApp still sells hardware

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 ...

October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

NetApp all-flash storage fuels hybrid cloud stance, CEO says

NetApp CEO George Kurian says data center customers are adopting more all-flash file and block storage to manage data across multiple public and private clouds.

October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

Security patch issued for Arcserve Unified Data Protection

Arcserve Unified Data Protection customers are being told to patch the backup platform after a security provider found issues that could leave data unprotected. The four vulnerabilities in Arcserve ...

October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

Lenovo investment pushes Scale Computing closer to edge

Scale Computing CEO Jeff Ready said the hyper-converged vendor was on the edge of profitability before it decided to expand its edge computing sales. Scale today said it has secured $21.2 million ...

October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

IBM storage products get another NVMe booster shot

IBM bolstered support for NVMe technologies across its storage portfolio with its latest round of product updates, which also adds new Spectrum Discover data management software.

October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

NetApp flash offerings push into cloud, edge and IoT

At the NetApp Insight user show, the vendor advocates for flash to replace disk for backup, cloud and object storage. NetApp HCI expands, and StorageGrid gets flash.

October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

NetApp MAX Data adds persistent memory tier to OnTap storage

MAX Data is a software-defined product that runs on commodity servers and can use non-NetApp storage. The codebase came from NetApp's acquisition of startup Plexistor.

October 22, 2018 22 Oct'18

Hammerspace targets data silos with new software service

Silicon Valley startup debuts software service that harnesses data virtualization technology from Primary Data and adds hybrid cloud data management and metadata as a service.

October 22, 2018 22 Oct'18

Quantum CEO ready to acquire to expand StorNext

Jamie Lerner’s first 90 days as Quantum CEO confirmed the idea he had about the company when he took over. Discussions with customers convinced Lerner that Quantum’s greatest strength and greatest ...

October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

NetApp Insight 2018: A primer on storage for AI, flash-enabled cloud

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 ...

October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

Elastifile adds automated tiering to cloud object storage

Cloud file system startup Elastifile is making it easier to shift data to object storage in Amazon and Google using ClearTier policy-based automated tiering.

October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

Violin buys ISE, X-IO splits off Axellio

Two storage companies on the comeback trail make moves -- Violin Systems buys X-IO's ISE platform, and X-IO rebrands as Axellio. Both have been in transition over the past few years.

October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

Hitachi storage technologies underpin AI and cloud plans

Hitachi Vantara is making several pivots from the storage vendor previously known as Hitachi Data Systems. But has it gone too far from its core storage technology?

October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

Ctera Networks snares $30 million in Series D funding round

Ctera Networks CEO Liran Eshel said his cloud file system company became cash flow positive this year, but it grabbed $30 million in new funding to grow as part of a booming market. Ctera Networks ...

October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

Quest backup software adds Microsoft Office 365 support

Quest backup has vaulted into the Office 365 workspace. NetVault Backup 12.1 includes a plug-in that enables full and incremental backup and recovery of Office 365 Exchange Online mailboxes. ...

October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

Customers get new dual-region Google Cloud Storage option

Google updated its cloud storage with higher availability SLAs and a new dual-region option designed to give customers greater control over their data.

October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

Caringo Swarm adds single server option, multi-cloud support

Caringo aims its Swarm Single Server object storage appliance at companies that want object storage but don't need petabytes of it in a multinode cluster.

October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

City buses use Cloudian storage for video data

Cloudian object storage hops a ride on Montebello Bus Lines, helping the California city improve its storage system for surveillance camera footage that had proved challenging.

October 03, 2018 03 Oct'18

Violin Systems AFA lineup adds XVS8 power hitter

Violin, an 'emerging company that's been around a while,' adds new all-flash system that will support NVMe over Fabrics next year and promises extreme performance.

September 28, 2018 28 Sep'18

Report: Support for high availability applications is 'mixed'

What are high availability applications if they're not highly available? According to a report released this month by SIOS, in partnership with ActualTech Media, one-quarter of respondents say ...

September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

Hitachi analytics sharpens heterogeneous storage management

Upgraded Hitachi Vantara analytics for storage improves visual mapping of application storage and integrates dynamic-cooling IoT technologies from Vigilent.

September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

Startup raises $60 million to grow Datrium DVX business

Datrium's latest $60 million funding will fuel its hybrid cloud computing and data management product line and business expansion into Europe. The Series D funding round boosted the Sunnyvale, ...

September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

Nasuni storage adds lower-cost cloud archive service option

Newly packaged Nasuni Cloud File Services offers a low-cost archive option as part of an effort to expand beyond high-end NAS and collaboration into traditional file and archive workloads.

September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

Dell EMC, Nutanix share HCI market leadership

Dell EMC extended its lead over Nutanix in hyper-converged systems sales in the second quarter, although Nutanix crept ahead of Dell-owned VMware into first when the market is measured by HCI ...

September 21, 2018 21 Sep'18

NetApp Kubernetes Service launched to orchestrate containers

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 ...

September 20, 2018 20 Sep'18

Scality Zenko goes GA for multi-cloud data management

Scality launches Zenko 1.0 multi-cloud data controller software, offering a commercially supported enterprise edition and a freely available open source version.

September 20, 2018 20 Sep'18

HPE 3PAR StoreServ all-flash fixes hospital's image problems

Riverside Healthcare dedicates its all-flash 3PAR StoreServ array to revamp its PACS. New images are stored in HPE's onboard cache for quicker retrieval by radiologists.

September 19, 2018 19 Sep'18

Quantum Xcellis unwraps NVMe-powered StorNext NAS

Quantum upgrades its StorNext file system to bolster file sharing and replication on Xcellis NVMe flash appliances. It's the first product release under new CEO Jamie Lerner.

September 19, 2018 19 Sep'18

Cloud storage startup Wasabi Technologies raises $68 million

Newcomer Wasabi Technologies will try to build up its brand recognition and take on the Big Three public cloud providers after raising $68 million in Series B funding. “You don’t go up against ...

September 18, 2018 18 Sep'18

Storage Product of the Year nominations closing soon

I can’t tell you exactly how many storage products have launched in the past year, but I know it was in the hundreds. I can tell you it was more than I can count. That’s because hardly a day goes ...

September 13, 2018 13 Sep'18

Nutanix customers trending larger, spending more on HCI

Besides proving there is plenty of growth still going on in the hyper-converged infrastructure market, Nutanix’s last earnings report showed HCI has moved well beyond VDI and niche applications. ...

September 13, 2018 13 Sep'18

Lenovo-NetApp partnership targets rivals Dell and HPE

Lenovo and NetApp go after Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise with a multiyear partnership to bolster enterprise storage offerings and create a joint venture company in China.

September 13, 2018 13 Sep'18

Dell EMC PowerVault ME4 launched for entry-level SAN

While the industry watches its midrange lines, Dell EMC pushes out a new array of entry-level, flashy PowerVault systems for smaller organizations and branch offices.

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

Samsung adds Z-NAND data center SSD

Samsung's new lineup of data center SSDs designed for channel sales to SMBs includes high-performance Z-NAND add-in card, U.2 and M.2 NVMe PCIe models and 2.5-inch SATA drives.

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 30, 2018 30 Aug'18

Startup Infinite io ropes new investors for its cloud NAS controller

Sometimes a storage startup makes a bang, fades into the background, and you forget about it – until the company snares a passel of new investors. That was the case with NAS controller specialist ...

August 30, 2018 30 Aug'18

Panzura tackles multi-cloud data management

Vizion.ai software as a service lets Panzura peer into customer data in on-premises and off-premises clouds to index, search, analyze and control it.

August 30, 2018 30 Aug'18

Report highlights IT resilience shortcomings

In "The State of IT Resilience," analysis firm IDC estimates that as many as 50% of organizations could not survive a disaster event. A co-author of the report says long-time threats of hardware ...

August 29, 2018 29 Aug'18

Tintri bankruptcy deal gives DataDirect an enterprise path

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 ...

August 29, 2018 29 Aug'18

Investors pour $94 million into Cloudian storage

The record $94 million funding round that Cloudian trumpeted today suggests investors have plenty of interest in highly scalable object storage and distributed file systems. Cloudian sells turnkey ...

August 29, 2018 29 Aug'18

Attala Systems tackles RoCE shortcomings for NVMe flash

Startup Attala said it can scale NVMe over RoCE across composable bare-metal racks. It has also partnered with Super Micro on NVMe JBOF and has data lake software in preview.

August 29, 2018 29 Aug'18

HPE storage decline offset by big data, converged demand

What does a vendor do when storage sales lag projections? If you’re Hewlett Packard Enterprise, you blame it on potential vagaries in currency. On Tuesday, the Palo Alto, Calif, hardware maker ...

August 28, 2018 28 Aug'18

Cisco HyperFlex bundles Veeam data protection

LAS VEGAS -- Unlike many of its data protection software rivals, Veeam Software has resisted putting its applications on a branded integrated appliance. Instead, it partners with large and small ...

August 28, 2018 28 Aug'18

Panasas storage roadmap includes route to software-defined

Panasas network-attached storage targets enterprises with large file workloads distributed across many users. ActiveStor hybrid arrays run the PanFS parallel file system.

August 23, 2018 23 Aug'18

ClearSky Data launches service for VMware Cloud on AWS

New service from Boston-based startup ClearSky enables VMware Cloud on AWS customers to back up and archive data in Amazon's object-based Simple Storage Service.

August 23, 2018 23 Aug'18

Chambers signs on as Rubrik investor

A year ago at VMworld, Rubrik introduced 6-foot-11 Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant as an investor and board advisor. The converged secondary storage vendor’s newest money man and advisor ...

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 21, 2018 21 Aug'18

Drobo, Nexsan HDD arrays merged in new holding company

If you’re a struggling niche disk array vendor, what's the next step you take to survive? You combine your HDD arrays with another disk vendor in the same boat. That's what low-end NAS vendor Drobo ...

August 20, 2018 20 Aug'18

NAND flash manufacturers showcase new technologies

Get up to speed on new NAND flash technologies, including Toshiba Memory's XL-Flash, startup Yangtze Memory's Xtacking, and SK Hynix's so-called 4D NAND.

August 20, 2018 20 Aug'18

DRaaS Magic Quadrant shrinks; Microsoft, iland lead the way

Gartner's 2018 Magic Quadrant for disaster recovery as a service made 13 vendors disappear. Gartner also thoroughly shuffled the deck among the remaining DRaaS Magic Quadrant survivors. Besides ...

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 ...

August 15, 2018 15 Aug'18

Scale-out Qumulo NAS qualifies latest Dell EMC PowerEdge servers

Qumulo scale-out NAS software can now run on Dell EMC's PowerEdge servers. That means Dell EMC server customers can choose between Qumulo software and Dell EMC's Isilon.

August 14, 2018 14 Aug'18

You'll never guess what people use Pure's FlashBlade to do

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 ...

August 14, 2018 14 Aug'18

IBM DS8882F converges array and mainframe in one rack

IBM skinny mainframes add a few pounds with the DS8882F all-flash array screwed into the IBM Z ZR1 and LinuxOne Rockhopper II 19-inch racks.

August 13, 2018 13 Aug'18

Kaminario storage goes for a run on Western Digital OpenFlex

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 ...

August 13, 2018 13 Aug'18

Violin Systems prepares NVMe launch, but not for drives

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 ...

August 13, 2018 13 Aug'18

New Seagate Nytro SSD line uses Toshiba 3D NAND chips

Seagate shows off its first triple-level cell, 64-layer 3D NAND Nytro SSDs since investing in Toshiba NAND. Analysts wonder if the HDD giant waited too long to get serious about flash.

August 10, 2018 10 Aug'18

Dell EMC Isilon, ECS gain ClarityNow for unstructured data

Dell EMC on Thursday picked up file software to help project teams access, control and manage unstructured data on heterogeneous storage. The deal for Agoura Hills, Calif.-based DataFrameworks is ...

August 08, 2018 08 Aug'18

NAND flash shortage end could lead to dramatic price drop

Impending NAND flash oversupply will lead to price collapse of NAND flash chips and higher capacity enterprise SSDs, according to semiconductor analyst Jim Handy.

August 07, 2018 07 Aug'18

CEO: Actifio funding round to help focus on customer growth

Actifio today completed its second $100 million funding round in four years, as it moves closer to a possible IPO and seeks profitability and growth. The Actifio funding round increases the ...

August 07, 2018 07 Aug'18

Newisys NVMe flash array chases hyperscale market

Sanmina-owned Newisys is known as a white-label server OEM to array vendors. The NSS-2560 NVMe flash provides storage density with hot-pluggable SSDs and Intel Broadwell servers.

August 02, 2018 02 Aug'18

NetApp AI storage packages OnTap all-flash FAS A800, Nvidia

NetApp follows Pure Storage's lead, adds Nvidia GPUs to its all-flash arrays to build a storage product designed for data scientists and others dabbling in artificial intelligence.

August 02, 2018 02 Aug'18

Western Digital launches 15 TB enterprise SAS SSD

Western Digital's 15 TB Ultrastar SAS SSD has twice the capacity of its previous version, but only half of the capacity of Toshiba's 31 TB whopper.

August 01, 2018 01 Aug'18

Alluxio adds connectors for multi-cloud data migration

Updated Alluxio open source storage software homes in on portability across multiple big data object stores. Applications access Alluxio as mountable file storage.

July 27, 2018 27 Jul'18

CEO outlines Data Dynamics StorageX trends, future features

Data Dynamics' CEO discusses upcoming StorageX software capabilities designed to help customers find, analyze, move and manage unstructured data in a hybrid cloud environment.

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 26, 2018 26 Jul'18

Commvault Advance still in neutral

Commvault’s retiring CEO Bob Hammer said the data protection vendor’s ongoing transition will produce long-term gains, although they will likely follow short-term pains. Commvault unveiled a series ...

July 26, 2018 26 Jul'18

Veeam adds Nutanix AHV support, expands Office 365 backup

Veeam Software has launched updates to its product line to increase platform support in recent weeks while continuing on a trajectory to becoming a $1 billion company by the end of the year. Veeam ...

July 25, 2018 25 Jul'18

Rubrik targets ransomware attacks with Polaris Radar

Rubrik today added an application to its Polaris SaaS platform, with the goal of automating protection against ransomware attacks. Polaris Radar is the second Polaris application from the converged ...

July 25, 2018 25 Jul'18

Toshiba, Western Digital start shift to 96-layer BiCS flash

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 ...

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 24, 2018 24 Jul'18

HPE InfoSight automates customer support on 3PAR

HPE increases the ability of its InfoSight cloud-based predictive analytics to help manage 3PAR storage arrays; HPE picked up InfoSight in its 2017 acquisition of Nimble.

July 20, 2018 20 Jul'18

Lenovo picks Cloudistics as ThinkAgile CP partner

Like the other major server vendors, Lenovo proclaims it is “all in” on hyper-convergence and software-defined storage. It just goes about it in a different way. Unlike the Dell EMC VxRail, Cisco ...

July 19, 2018 19 Jul'18

Tintri acquisition proposal leaves customers in limbo

DataDirect Networks sees Tintri's analytics and flash capabilities as an entry point to the enterprise, but Tintri customers remain in the dark about their storage vendor's fate.

July 18, 2018 18 Jul'18

Intel, Micron end 3D XPoint memory joint development

Micron and Intel plan to end their joint development of nonvolatile 3D XPoint memory next year, after finishing work on the second generation of the nonvolatile memory technology.

July 16, 2018 16 Jul'18

New Elastifile CEO intensifies startup's cloud focus

Elastifile's new CEO plans to increase the company's focus on filling a 'huge missing piece' of enterprise file storage for public clouds and sees more customers shifting away from on-site deployments.

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