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- February 28, 2018
28 Feb'18
IT resiliency report: Downtime holding businesses up
The intro to a recent IT resiliency report asks the question: "Is IT turbulence the new norm?" In a year marred by ransomware attacks large and small, catastrophic natural disasters and other IT ...
- February 23, 2018
23 Feb'18
More Nimble, HPE storage revenue jumps 24%
Hewlett Packard Enterprise storage sales rebounded last quarter, thanks to the addition of Nimble Storage and an improvement of the 3PAR SAN platform. HPE storage revenue of $948 million grew 24% ...
- February 22, 2018
22 Feb'18
Pivotal move: Chad Sakac says Dell EMC in ‘rear-view window’
The question ‘Where is Chad Sakac?’ got answered this week: by Chad Sakac. The former president of the Dell EMC converged infrastructure division (formerly known as converged platforms) said he ...
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- February 22, 2018
22 Feb'18
Hybrid Reduxio storage shifts gears to midrange enterprises
Reduxio's converged primary and secondary storage integrates native tools for data management and protection. Can the hybrid flash vendor turn a profit and pull off an IPO?
- February 22, 2018
22 Feb'18
Virtual Instruments rebrands Load DynamiX as WorkloadWisdom
Virtual Instruments rebrands Load DynamiX Enterprise storage performance validation software, updates its user interface, boosts performance and adds 25 GbE and SMB support.
- February 21, 2018
21 Feb'18
New IBM storage products key on NAS, cloud, NVMe over Fabric
IBM launches new and updated Spectrum software-defined storage products, including a new NAS option, and commits to broadened end-to-end NVMe over Fabrics support by the third quarter.
- February 19, 2018
19 Feb'18
RackTop Systems, Seagate launch secure NAS
RackTop Secure Data Protection Platform transfers data to cloud or other storage systems. It is intended for enterprises with compliance requirements.
- February 15, 2018
15 Feb'18
Intel P4510 U.2 SSD ships with 64-layer TLC 3D NAND
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 ...
- February 15, 2018
15 Feb'18
NetApp cloud-flash pivot brings cheers
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 ...
- February 14, 2018
14 Feb'18
NooBaa update focuses on multi-cloud data management
Software-defined object storage startup NooBaa takes on unstructured data management across multiple private and public clouds with second major product release.
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- February 14, 2018
14 Feb'18
Industry experts predict shift to multi-cloud storage in 2018
Hot trends in enterprise cloud storage in 2018 will include the use of multiple clouds, hybrid cloud storage and file-based cloud storage, according to industry experts.
- February 08, 2018
08 Feb'18
NVMe flash hopeful E8 Storage goes software-only route
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, ...
- February 08, 2018
08 Feb'18
NetApp CEO Kurian narrows focus to flash, cloud
George Kurian became CEO of NetApp in 2015 to jump-start a push into cloud and flash storage. The vendor has bucked scant revenue growth with four straight solid quarters.
- February 07, 2018
07 Feb'18
Nutanix leads first hyper-converged Magic Quadrant
Gartner now gives hyper-convergence a Magic Quadrant of its own, and places Nutanix as the leader in the upper right-hand corner. Dell EMC, VMware and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise also sit in the ...
- February 06, 2018
06 Feb'18
How a Dell and VMware merger could affect EMC storage
Enterprise storage stalwart EMC was majority owner of VMware and now may wind up a subsidiary if Dell merges with the virtualization giant. Dell said no decision has been reached.
- February 06, 2018
06 Feb'18
Enterprise storage market to focus on data use in 2018
The focus of enterprise storage will shift to data management and analysis in 2018, spurring IT departments to rethink architecture that must stretch to edge and cloud.
- January 30, 2018
30 Jan'18
Caringo Swarm sales jumped 40% in 2017
Despite all the talk about object storage over the years, it has yet to push scale-out NAS out of the enterprise for storing files that take up hundreds of terabytes to petabytes of capacity. But ...
- January 29, 2018
29 Jan'18
Kaminario storage jettisons hardware for software-only cloud model
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 ...
- January 29, 2018
29 Jan'18
Igneous Systems ingests $15 million funding for file data protection
Igneous Systems today closed a $15 million Series B funding round to help expand marketing of its hybrid cloud backup and archiving platform for file data. Igneous Hybrid Storage Cloud consists of ...
- January 26, 2018
26 Jan'18
Report: Dell-EMC storage aftermath may trigger IPO
Is the Dell EMC storage merger causing buyer’s remorse? According to published report, Dell Technologies is considering a return to the public market to satisfy the massive debt incurred from its ...
- January 25, 2018
25 Jan'18
Commvault earnings disappoint again
Commvault generated $180.4 million in revenue last quarter, which was its biggest revenue quarter ever but still missed Wall Street’s expectation of $182 million. The company blamed the small ...
- January 24, 2018
24 Jan'18
CEO refuses to confirm Primary Data shutdown reports
Primary Data CEO Lance Smith has refused to confirm published reports that the storage software startup has closed shop. Reached Tuesday evening at his Primary Data office telephone number, Smith ...
- January 24, 2018
24 Jan'18
New enterprise SATA Micron SSDs use 64-layer 3D NAND flash
Micron launches new 5200 Series enterprise SATA SSDs with high-density 64-layer 3D NAND flash technology, offering similar performance to prior 32-layer 5100 Series.
- January 23, 2018
23 Jan'18
Cloudian HyperStore 7 targets multi-cloud complexities
HyperStore 7 pools storage across on premises and public clouds under a single namespace. Cloudian supports file and object storage, as well as Amazon, Microsoft and Google clouds.
- January 23, 2018
23 Jan'18
Cohesity exec: Hyper-converged secondary storage more than a trend
A Cohesity executive wants to make something clear about the company's self-described product line. "Hyper-converged secondary storage is not a trend," chief marketing officer Lynn Lucas said. ...
- January 22, 2018
22 Jan'18
Annual IBM revenue rises, thanks to cloud, flash storage
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 ...
- January 22, 2018
22 Jan'18
Pure Storage FlashStack is recycler's renewable resource
Food waste recycler Valley Proteins chose Pure Storage's all-flash converged infrastructure to replace Dell EMC VNX-Cisco UCS for 24 TB of usable storage with Cohesity backup.
- January 22, 2018
22 Jan'18
NVMe enterprise flash storage, new memory mean change in 2018
Storage executives and industry analysts predict NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics and new memory technologies will disrupt the storage industry this year and into the future.
- January 17, 2018
17 Jan'18
Rehearsals over, Violin Systems raises curtain on comeback
Violin flash customers can consume FSP hardware as a service with three-year subscription at guaranteed cost of 1 cent per GB per month, based on 140 TB and data deduplication.
- January 15, 2018
15 Jan'18
Data storage management tools: 2017 Products of the Year finalists
Storage management tools candidates for this year's Products of the Year competition reflect the growing importance of the cloud and machine learning.
- January 15, 2018
15 Jan'18
Software-defined storage products: 2017 Products of the Year finalists
The 11 software-defined storage finalists in this year's competition highlight the most recent developments in flash, cloud and container technologies.
- January 15, 2018
15 Jan'18
Data management and storage 2017 Products of the Year finalists
We narrowed down the field to 47 finalists in five data storage categories as part of our much anticipated 16th annual Products of the Year competition.
- January 15, 2018
15 Jan'18
Enterprise storage arrays: 2017 Products of the Year finalists
All-flash and hybrid products comprise the bulk of the 14 storage arrays chosen as finalists in the 2017 Products of the Year contest. Only two arrays rely predominantly on disk.
- January 11, 2018
11 Jan'18
Potential NVMe benefits spark enterprise IT interest
Enterprise IT pros who have seen the benefits of conventional flash storage are looking ahead to potential use cases for faster NVMe-based technologies.
- January 10, 2018
10 Jan'18
Western Digital’s My Cloud NAS security under fire
Western Digital released a firmware update last year to address critical backdoor security vulnerabilities in its My Cloud NAS products but the company this week acknowledged more security issues ...
- January 10, 2018
10 Jan'18
Startup Liqid looks to make a splash in composable storage
Liqid composable storage infrastructure is based on Liqid Grid's custom PCIe fabric switch and orchestration to provision bare-metal servers from disaggregated devices.
- January 05, 2018
05 Jan'18
Alert: Dell EMC data protection patches Avamar security holes
Users of Dell EMC data protection are being urged to quickly patch three security flaws that could hijack Avamar-based products. The vulnerabilities revolve around Avamar Installation Manager, a ...
- January 04, 2018
04 Jan'18
Digital transformation planning bumps into data management issues
As businesses look to increasingly digitize their information, data management and data access are top concerns, according to a recent survey. "You can't be a digital business if you don't have ...
- January 04, 2018
04 Jan'18
Microsoft scoops up NAS vendor Avere for hybrid cloud services
Microsoft acquired Avere Systems, a vendor that builds appliances for high-performance NAS in hybrid environments. Avere NAS is used for primary file storage and cloud bursting.
- January 04, 2018
04 Jan'18
Reduxio Systems' storage wows human resources specialist
Reduxio HX550 hybrid arrays provide primary storage with native data protection for CPP's talent management software, which includes a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment.
- December 28, 2017
28 Dec'17
IDC: hyper-converged platforms outgrows converged infrastructures
Recent IDC research shows hyper-converged platforms are quickly catching up to the converged systems market. For the third quarter of 2017, global revenue on converged systems increased nearly 11% ...
- December 28, 2017
28 Dec'17
iXsystems: 'weird' but profitable NAS vendor
Here’s something you rarely hear from high tech companies today: “We’re a hardware company in our heart and soul.” That is how executive vice president Brett Davis introduced iXsystems during a ...
- December 19, 2017
19 Dec'17
Toshiba, HPE head 2017 storage acquisitions
Storage acquisitions in 2017 included Hewlett Packard Enterprise's buys of SimpliVity and Nimble Storage, and Toshiba's move to sell off its memory business.
- December 19, 2017
19 Dec'17
HyTrust rekindles DataGravity analytics for multicloud storage
HyTrust has revived DataGravity’s data-aware storage technology, six months after scooping up the startup’s assets. Cloud infrastructure specialist HyTrust today launched the CloudAdvisor automated ...
- December 18, 2017
18 Dec'17
Storage market trends of 2017: Flash, HCI and cloud gain steam
Disruption in the enterprise storage market appears unlikely to subside anytime soon. AI analytics, cloud, HCI, mergers and NVMe flash highlight key themes heading into 2018.
- December 14, 2017
14 Dec'17
Tintri cloud forecast: stormy, with slight chance of revenue
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 ...
- December 14, 2017
14 Dec'17
Misconfigured Amazon S3 buckets expose sensitive data
Amazon has built more security functions for S3 buckets after cybersecurity firms uncovered a worrisome trend of IT administrators failing to properly secure them.
- December 14, 2017
14 Dec'17
NVMe-focused Toshiba storage node software due in '18
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 ...
- December 13, 2017
13 Dec'17
Quantum Xcellis scale-out NAS tackles unstructured data
Quantum's new system takes on scale-out NAS and object markets. The vendor says its Xcellis NAS tier will scale from 40 TB to petabytes without a performance hit.
- December 13, 2017
13 Dec'17
Western Digital-Toshiba flash clash ends
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. ...
- December 11, 2017
11 Dec'17
Hitz: NetApp market growth hinges on cloud, data management
Storage stalwart NetApp celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2017. NetApp founder Dave Hitz reflects on its evolution and the impact of Cloud OnTap, Data Fabric and SolidFire HCI.
- December 11, 2017
11 Dec'17
VirtualWisdom brings visibility to the cloud
Virtual Instrument integrates technology acquired from Xangati into its VirtualWisdom platform for automated application performance management to improve visibility into the cloud.
- December 08, 2017
08 Dec'17
SwiftStack object storage integrates file protocol support
New SwiftStack 6.0 storage software supports Universal Access to data with added support for SMB/NFS file protocols to go with Amazon S3 and OpenStack Swift object APIs.
- December 07, 2017
07 Dec'17
Dell EMC all-flash surge collides with softening storage demand
Growth in Dell EMC all-flash storage is one of the bright spots in what remains a tough slog for legacy array vendors. Dell Technologies on Thursday reported consolidated revenue of $19.6 billion ...
- December 07, 2017
07 Dec'17
Cheapest enterprise cloud storage providers not always best
One Gartner cloud storage analyst cautions clients not to choose the least expensive provider, even if the offering from a big-name vendor might appear attractive.
- December 07, 2017
07 Dec'17
Cloudian HyperFile marries NAS and object storage
Cloudian's HyperFile and HyperStore merge NAS and object storage for unstructured data. The new HyperFile appliance targets medical imaging, engineering files and legal documents.
- December 07, 2017
07 Dec'17
Hedvig CEO: Who needs backups?
Santa Clara, Calif. -- By now, most people realize this is the age of convergence in IT – especially as it applies to storage. We have converged infrastructure mixing storage, compute and ...
- December 04, 2017
04 Dec'17
Nutanix software-defines itself
Nutanix is hard selling the value of its software. While the hyper-converged vendor stopped short of re-naming itself Nutanix Software, CEO Dheeraj Pandey used its earnings call last week to ...
- November 30, 2017
30 Nov'17
Nexenta raises $20 million, shoots for cloud
Bolstered by lead investor SoftBank Corp., Nexenta secured $20 million in financing this week to fund its new cloud portfolio. The Santa Clara, California-based storage software vendor next month ...
- November 30, 2017
30 Nov'17
Qumulo File Fabric fuses on-prem, cloud storage for studio
Qumulo's File Fabric gives FuseFX ability to burst workloads into Amazon Web Services, giving it a virtual fourth location for file storage for its special effects rendering.
- November 30, 2017
30 Nov'17
Barracuda Networks going private
Barracuda Networks became the latest public technology vendor to go private when equity firm Thoma Bravo agreed to pay $1.6 billion this week to acquire the security and data protection vendor. The ...
- November 29, 2017
29 Nov'17
Data recovery plans face tall task as storage levels grow
Too much data is weighing heavily on data recovery plans, according to a recent survey. The problem has scaled beyond what many organizations can handle, said Douglas Brockett, president of backup ...
- November 29, 2017
29 Nov'17
Pure Storage revenue boost puts it on ‘march to profit’
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 ...
- November 26, 2017
26 Nov'17
Like its CEO, HPE storage in transition phase
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 ...
- November 22, 2017
22 Nov'17
StorOne attacks bottlenecks with new TRU storage software
After six years of development, an Israeli startup launches new Total Resource Utilization storage software that aims to eliminate bottlenecks and improve storage efficiency.
- November 20, 2017
20 Nov'17
Infinidat embeds SAN, NAS replication in InfiniBox R4
Infinidat's software upgrade eschews SCSI in favor of custom IP-based replication protocol. The vendor claims InfiniBox R4 delivers target writes at sub-400-millisecond latency.
- November 16, 2017
16 Nov'17
Quobyte preps 2.0 Data Center File System software update
One startup's 'Google-style' software-defined storage upgrade features 'table stakes,' such as volume mirroring for disaster recovery and support for Mac and Windows clients.
- November 16, 2017
16 Nov'17
NetApp revenue rides flash gravy train
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 ...
- November 15, 2017
15 Nov'17
Amazon not to blame for S3 cloud storage lapses
The Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) has been giving big businesses –and their customers -- big trouble. It was reported earlier this summer that high-profile companies left data in their S3 ...
- November 14, 2017
14 Nov'17
Dell EMC: Big data lakes will like our Elastic Data Platform
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 ...
- November 14, 2017
14 Nov'17
Panasas storage, director blades split into separate devices
Panasas hybrid storage offers 57 PB of raw capacity with 200 shelves. ActiveStor Director 100 sits atop a rack of Panasas arrays. Customers can scale types and capacities of media.
- November 14, 2017
14 Nov'17
Commvault GO: ‘Sully,’ Swan emphasize good data’s value
We hear a lot of talk these days about machine learning and artificial intelligence. Those are hot and valuable technologies, but two speakers at Commvault GO last week highlighted the importance ...
- November 13, 2017
13 Nov'17
Nutanix backup choices expand
Options for Nutanix backup are growing for customers using the hyper-converged vendor’s AHV hypervisor. At Nutanix’s European .NEXT user conference last week, backup software market leader Veritas ...
- November 10, 2017
10 Nov'17
Quantum CEO Gacek’s a goner after poor quarter
Quantum CEO Jon Gacek is out following poor sales results for the data protection and scale-out storage vendor last quarter. The Quantum board named director Adalio Sanchez as interim CEO. Chairman ...
- November 09, 2017
09 Nov'17
SMB ransomware report: Attacks frequent, backups key piece
Ransomware attacks on SMBs have increased, according to a recent survey, but backup and disaster recovery platforms can calm data protection fears. An estimated 5% of SMBs worldwide fell victim to ...
- November 08, 2017
08 Nov'17
Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 adds file, iSCSI, container support
Red Hat updates Ceph storage software with support for CephFS file system, iSCSI block interface and Linux container-based storage implementations, plus usability improvements.
- November 08, 2017
08 Nov'17
Dell EMC all-flash SC Series prepped for launch
Dell EMC all-flash inclusive added to the mix for SC Series and Unity arrays. The vendor said each of the midrange storage products has a large customer base.
- November 08, 2017
08 Nov'17
Nutanix Acropolis services expand for cloud, developer needs
Like many storage and data center vendors, hyper-converged vendor Nutanix is taking the next steps to give its platform multi-cloud capabilities. Nutanix today laid out its plans to add services ...
- November 07, 2017
07 Nov'17
Pivot3 Acuity jukes HCI sales, aims at cloud
Hyper-converged vendor Pivot3 said its Acuity appliance is significantly expanding its enterprise footprint, with one-third of its revenue coming from deals of $500,000 or more last quarter. The ...
- November 06, 2017
06 Nov'17
CEO discusses changing Nasuni storage customer base
Nasuni's customer base has expanded to large enterprises, and most are right to be concerned about cloud storage performance, says CEO Andres Rodriguez.
- November 02, 2017
02 Nov'17
SwiftStack objects to object storage label
SwiftStack’s leadership team appreciated being selected a visionary in Gartner’s recent Magic Quadrant for distributed file systems and object storage. The vendor even put out a press release ...
- November 02, 2017
02 Nov'17
3D TLC NAND gives capacity boost to IBM FlashSystem 900
FlashSystem 900 building blocks are the foundation of IBM FlashSystem A9000 and V9000 arrays. New NAND modules use 3D TLC in place of planar 2D enterprise MLC.
- November 01, 2017
01 Nov'17
Elastifile scores OEM deal with Dell EMC
Cloud NAS vendor Elastifile has struck an OEM deal with Dell EMC, one of the startup’s first investors. Dell EMC will integrate Elastifile Cloud File System and CloudConnect cloud transfer and ...
- November 01, 2017
01 Nov'17
Arcserve acquisition plans heating up
Arcserve is on the hunt to buy more companies. The data protection and recovery company already has made two acquisitions since becoming independent from CA Technologies in 2014. It bought cloud ...
- October 31, 2017
31 Oct'17
Violin Systems CEO Abbasi says profits coming in 2018
All-flash pioneer Violin emerges from bankruptcy; 2018 plans call for profits, acquisition, NVMe deployments and software-defined scalability.
- October 31, 2017
31 Oct'17
IBM Cloud Object Storage tweaked for on-prem, small footprints
With the latest upgrades to its object storage platform, IBM recognizes that not everyone who uses object storage does so in the public cloud. They don’t all start with hundreds of terabytes of ...
- October 30, 2017
30 Oct'17
Cisco telemetry data gets streamed from MDS 9700 32G modules
Cisco SAN telemetry sensors capture insight on network fabrics to aid capacity and infrastructure management. The FC feature provides real-time instrumentation analytics.
- October 30, 2017
30 Oct'17
Veeam revenue increases as enterprise deals grow
Highlighted by the largest customer deal in its history and a big bump in enterprise bookings, Veeam reported 34% year-over-year total bookings growth in the last quarter. There has been a push in ...
- October 27, 2017
27 Oct'17
Western Digital CEO vows to block Toshiba NAND sale
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 ...
- October 26, 2017
26 Oct'17
Quest data protection management adds cloud portal
Quest Software, independent again after its spinoff from Dell EMC nearly a year ago, is building out its data protection portfolio with a new cloud-based management console. The Quest Data ...
- October 24, 2017
24 Oct'17
Can Commvault HyperScale cure sales slide?
Following six straight quarters of making or beating expectations, Commvault stumbled last quarter when it missed its targets for revenue and income. The backup and data management company today ...
- October 19, 2017
19 Oct'17
Red Hat updates Gluster Storage for OpenShift container apps
Red Hat beefs up its Container-Native Storage with block and object interfaces and a significant increase in persistent volume density for use with its OpenShift Container Platform.
- October 19, 2017
19 Oct'17
NVMe flash array startups Pavilion Data, Vexata jump in
The 4U Pavilion Memory NVMe flash array comes with 20 controllers and 40 Ethernet ports. Vexata markets VX-100 appliances running Active Data Fabric distributed storage.
- October 17, 2017
17 Oct'17
Actifio Sky adds intelligent search across clouds
Actifio's Sky goes beyond copy data management. It searches and manages data across clouds and on-premises storage with new analytics and a global catalog.
- October 06, 2017
06 Oct'17
Komprise adds data lifecycle management, deeper analytics
Storage startup updates data management software with additional policy-based data migration options, more granular analytics and GDPR-focused confinement capabilities.
- October 06, 2017
06 Oct'17
NetApp customers, partners press on after Las Vegas shooting
About 4,000 NetApp customers and partners attended the vendor's Insight user conference expecting storage news. Instead, they had to absorb the largest mass shooting in U.S. history.
- October 06, 2017
06 Oct'17
NetApp CEO Kurian: I see the power of data change lives
LAS VEGAS - In a week full of raw emotion, NetApp CEO George Kurian shared a personal story on the power of data to change lives. Kurian was speaking to attendees at NetApp Insight conference here ...
- October 05, 2017
05 Oct'17
Scality Connect ports S3 apps to Azure Blob storage
Scality's Connect software opens access to Microsoft Azure Blob services for S3 API-compatible applications, making it easier to port S3 API apps to Microsoft cloud storage.
- October 05, 2017
05 Oct'17
Data Dynamics StorageX 8.0 adds analysis, S3 support
Data Dynamics beefs up StorageX file management software with new single-view analysis portal and support for Amazon S3 API-compliant object storage.
- October 05, 2017
05 Oct'17
Microsoft Azure taps NetApp Ontap for native NFS storage
NetApp Ontap will become available in Microsoft public cloud as the Azure Enterprise NFS Service. Will we see NetApp do the same for Amazon Web Services?