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• December 28, 2016 28 Dec'16

  NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics protocols merit consideration

  NVMe protocols are growing in importance as enterprises switch to flash storage. Demartek founder Dennis Martin explains the technologies and why IT needs to keep an eye on them.

• December 28, 2016 28 Dec'16

  Survey says: Business disaster recovery plans need work

  While companies may be confident in their disaster recovery strategy, DR planning and testing still has a ways to go, according to results of a survey by data protection vendor Zetta. Among 403 IT ...

• December 27, 2016 27 Dec'16

  Using multiple BDR products doesn't always translate into faster data recovery

  Companies spend a lot of money on disaster recovery solutions but that doesn’t translate into faster data recovery, according to a survey conducted by Quorum titled the “State of Disaster ...

• December 22, 2016 22 Dec'16

  Asigra's data recovery report details how little gets recovered

  How much data do you actually recover? That's a question that Asigra users answered in a data recovery report. Featuring statistics gathered from nearly 1,100 organizations across eight sectors, ...

• December 21, 2016 21 Dec'16

  Panzura wants to provide archiving freedom, for a price

  Cloud NAS vendor Panzura is expanding into archiving. The vendor today made available Freedom Archive software that moves infrequently accessed data to public clouds or low-cost on-premises ...

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• December 19, 2016 19 Dec'16

  In storage, 2016 M&A centered on networking, hyper-convergence

  Broadcom's $5.9 billion deal to buy Brocade and transactions involving hyper-converged vendors and cloud provider Rackspace highlight storage mergers and acquisitions in 2016.

• December 16, 2016 16 Dec'16

  Small change yields Quantum leap for StorNext scale-out file system

  Quantum StorNext scale-out file system upgrade integrates support for public cloud and third-party object storage. StorNext manages data as a unified namespace.

• December 14, 2016 14 Dec'16

  Violin Memory's sad song leads to bankruptcy

  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 ...

• December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16

  Nasuni files away $25 million in funding

  Cloud file storage vendor Nasuni picked up $25 million in funding today, bringing its total to $80.5 million. The vendor’s executives expect the latest funding to bring it to cash-flow positive ...

• December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16

  NexentaEdge DevOps goes gratis for Docker persistent storage

  NexentaEdge DevOps integrates Docker persistent storage from up to three Linux servers and 16 TB of raw storage with NexentaEdge data and storage services.

• December 08, 2016 08 Dec'16

  Primary Data contributes to NFS 4.2

  Software-defined storage vendor Primary Data’s open standards parallel NFS contributions made it into the NFS 4.2 standard, which could help the startup make inroads with scale-out storage ...

• December 08, 2016 08 Dec'16

  Western Digital shows gains from acquisitions

  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 ...

• December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

  SwiftStack public Cloud Sync starts with Amazon, Google

  Object storage provider SwiftStack Inc. has added hybrid cloud synchronization to its OpenStack-based software controller. SwiftStack Cloud Sync allows data or subsets of data to exist ...

• December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

  New Qumulo CEO: 'Fast' scale-out file system beats big legacy vendors

  Scale-out file-system specialist Qumulo hires ex-EMC Vice President Bill Richter to spearhead marketing and sales. It marks a reunion with Qumulo co-founders Peter Godman and Neal Fachan.

• December 06, 2016 06 Dec'16

  Datrium snares $55 million, nearly year after DVX release

  Datrium secured $55 million in Series C financing as it approaches the one-year anniversary of the general release of its flagship DVX storage system for VMware virtual machines. The new financing ...

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Hot data storage technology trends for 2017

  Learn what's hot and what's not-quite-so-hot on our list of data storage technology trends for the forthcoming year.

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Focus attention on a cognitive data management system

  Jon Toigo advises paying less attention to storage component stories and more to system-focused narratives such as a cognitive data management process.

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Drowning in data storage capacity? Set it free!

  We're all guilty of data hoarding, and managing it is costing companies billions of dollars. The answer? Do a better job of managing all that useless data.

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Hot data storage market technologies for 2017

  For 14 years, Storage magazine has presented our picks for the hottest storage technologies in the coming year. This year, our honorees are, as in the past, "newish" rather than cutting-edge or futuristic. All are proven in the data storage market ...

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Hyper-convergence meets private cloud platform requirements

  Infrastructure choice and integration are fundamental to capitalizing on all that a private cloud environment has to offer your organization.

• December 02, 2016 02 Dec'16

  Hedge fund returns Nexsan storage to private ownership

  Nexsan storage technology is the only moneymaking asset for publicly traded Imation. The vendor is going private with help from a Louisiana hedge fund.

• November 30, 2016 30 Nov'16

  HPE launches flash, SMB storage updates

  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 ...

• November 30, 2016 30 Nov'16

  Nutanix adds oodles of customers and red ink

  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 ...

• November 23, 2016 23 Nov'16

  HyperGrid swears off hardware, favors HyperCloud SaaS

  Hypergrid put the finishing touch on its shift from storage hardware to SaaS-based delivery with the introduction of HyperCloud. The company formerly known as Gridstore said HyperCloud helps ...

• November 18, 2016 18 Nov'16

  Tegile IntelliFlash flash arrays refreshed, prepped for NVMe

  Tegile IntelliFlash hybrid and all-flash systems get a refresh as the company gets ready for a push into NVMe.

• November 17, 2016 17 Nov'16

  NetApp’s hyper-convergence answer? All-flash and CI arrays

  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 ...

• November 17, 2016 17 Nov'16

  WD ActiveScale P100 joins HGST Active Archive System

  Western Digital introduced an entry-level ActiveScale P100 object storage system for users with lower scalability needs than its Active Archive System addresses.

• November 16, 2016 16 Nov'16

  Seagate ClusterStor HPC includes CS300N for Lustre, GPFS file storage

  Seagate claims the ClusterStor 300N system achieves 16 Gbps per box and 112 Gbps per 42U rack, with Nytro intelligence accelerating I/O workloads up to 1,000%.

• November 16, 2016 16 Nov'16

  Hitachi Content Intelligence searches, analyzes data

  Hitachi Content Intelligence, built into Hitachi Content Portfolio object storage, extracts data and metadata from repositories to perform data analytics on unstructured data.

• November 16, 2016 16 Nov'16

  Pure Storage: We’re NVMe-ready

  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 ...

• November 15, 2016 15 Nov'16

  Virtual Instruments buys Xangati, expands VirtualWisdom

  Virtual Instruments acquires Xangati for its networking and virtualization monitoring expertise. The company plans to integrate the new technology into the VirtualWisdom platform.

• November 15, 2016 15 Nov'16

  Qumulo scales out hardware options through HPE partnership

  Qumulo has scored an OEM deal with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to sell the startup’s data-aware scale-out NAS software on Apollo hardware. Qumulo Core on HPE Apollo will be available on 2u 4200 ...

• November 14, 2016 14 Nov'16

  OpenStack Newton storage features include data encryption

  Storage updates in OpenStack's Newton release include at-rest data encryption in Swift, a message API for async tasks in Cinder and driver-assisted migration in Manila.

• November 10, 2016 10 Nov'16

  Zadara expands hyperscale cloud options with Google storage service

  Google Cloud Platform expands Zadara Storage VPSA and ZIOS hyperscale cloud SaaS options, which already support Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

• November 09, 2016 09 Nov'16

  DataDirect Networks expands Lustre file system storage, IME buffer

  DDN Lustre file storage adds multi-level security to Lustre, and it announced IME240 NVMe flash is available on 2U commodity hardware or as software-only.

• November 03, 2016 03 Nov'16

  Quorum onQ update offers faster DR, smoother management

  The latest Quorum onQ disaster recovery platform update features faster disk writes, increased capacity and a redesigned user interface. Quorum onQ 4.0 provides a suite of high availability, ...

• November 03, 2016 03 Nov'16

  Broadcom acquisition of Brocade leaves three major FC vendors

  Broadcom acquired Brocade in a $5.9 billion deal that will leave the Fibre Channel industry with three major vendors, but analysts predict FC will remain viable for years.

• November 01, 2016 01 Nov'16

  Tintri OS storage upgrade focuses on cloud, containers for DevOps

  Tintri storage moves 'in lockstep' with VMware for cloud, container and DevOps support with a vRealize Orchestrator plug-in and vSphere Integrated Containers support.

• November 01, 2016 01 Nov'16

  NetApp Data Fabric stitches on SaaS to sync local, cloud storage

  NetApp Data Fabric SaaS enhancements include Cloud Sync Service, Cloud Control for Office 365 and new versions of AltaVault, SnapCenter and StorageGRID Webscale.

• October 31, 2016 31 Oct'16

  WD claims strong demand for HDDs, flash with cloud customers

  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 ...

• October 28, 2016 28 Oct'16

  StorNext sales help Quantum scale revenue

  With its StorNext revenue rising while data protection sales remained flat, Quantum achieved its second straight growth period last quarter. The StorNext file system is at the heart of Quantum’s ...

• October 27, 2016 27 Oct'16

  Cloudian raises $41 million in a Series D funding round

  Cloudian today closed a $41 million in a Series D funding round that it will use to help increase its sales footprint in Europe and Asia in the second half of 2017. New Cloudian investors in the ...

• October 27, 2016 27 Oct'16

  NetApp carries Toshiba's self-encrypting SSDs

  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 ...

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  In-memory software startup Alluxio tosses hat in big data storage ring

  Open source Alluxio is an in-memory virtual distributed storage system that allows data to be shared across applications and storage systems at memory speed.

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  Cloud holds silver lining for Commvault

  Commvault’s push to store customer data in the cloud is paying off. CEO Bob Hammer said the amount of data stored in the cloud with Commvault software has more than doubled since the start of 2016. ...

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  Igneous Systems delivers IaaS with hyperscale nano servers

  Igneous Systems offers IaaS that uses nano servers to store data on- premises and is managed by the vendor remotely on a cloud subscription basis.

• October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16

  HPE launches new XP7 based on Hitachi technology

  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 ...

• October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16

  The new HDS VSP arrays enhance QoS and data reduction

  Hitachi added new VSP all-flash array and hybrid array models and updated the operating system with adaptive data reduction, enhanced quality of service and cloud tiering.

• October 24, 2016 24 Oct'16

  Acronis Storage signals vendor's software-defined push

  Acronis, known for its backup and recovery offerings, has unveiled a software-defined storage product to the public for the first time, including blockchain integration.

• October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16

  FalconStor updates FreeStor, adopts new pricing model

  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 ...

• October 20, 2016 20 Oct'16

  Dell EMC's making XtremIO multi-protocol

  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 ...

• October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16

  Cisco storage networking products get FCIP, FCoE upgrades

  Cisco storage networking announced upgrades that include Ethernet boosts for FCIP and FCoE, but it's decided to hold off on shipping 32 GbE Fibre Channel.

• October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16

  Cleversafe-based IBM Cloud Object Storage service debuts

  IBM marked the one-year anniversary of its Cleversafe acquisition with the launch of a “pay-as-you-go” cloud object storage service enabling customers to use the same technology on site and off ...

• October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16

  Dell EMC gives the green light for Isilon All-Flash arrays

  Dell EMC shows off Isilon All-Flash scale-out NAS array at first Dell EMC World; also extends EMC management and data protection to Compellent arrays.

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  Caringo, Dell deliver an object storage server cluster for Swarm

  Caringo previously sold Swarm as software-only object storage, but now, Dell packages Swarm 9 as a hardware option that clusters 288 TB of usable storage.

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  Magnetic storage device maker Everspin spins its way to Nasdaq

  Magneto-resistive RAM chipmaker Everspin Technologies is trying to make sure its in-memory magnetic storage technology will spin into the future. The Chandler, Ariz.-based vendor this month raised ...

• October 14, 2016 14 Oct'16

  Hubstor gives Microsoft Azure encryption a two-pronged focus

  Cloud archiving startup HubStor is fortifying its data protection, adding two methods to apply Azure encryption of at-rest data in Microsoft public cloud storage. Customers of the Ottawa-based ...

• October 13, 2016 13 Oct'16

  Microsoft Storage Spaces takes 'Direct' aim at storage clusters

  Windows Server 2016 release makes Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct available to data centers. Highlights include heightened data reduction, HCI, replication and tiering.

• October 13, 2016 13 Oct'16

  Avere Systems rolls out its own core NAS filer for hybrid cloud

  Avere Systems recently announced its latest hardware, the Cloud-Core NAS (C2N) hybrid system that is integrated with object storage and can scale up to five petabytes. The system is comprised of ...

• October 11, 2016 11 Oct'16

  Dell EMC adds VMAX 250F, support for 15 TB SSDs, compression

  Dell EMC's first major product launch since the merger focuses on flash with VMAX 250F, inline compression and nondisruptive flash upgrades for VMAX and Unity.

• October 11, 2016 11 Oct'16

  SNIA panel: Docker data center deployments inch to primary storage

  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 ...

• October 07, 2016 07 Oct'16

  Flash storage decreases build times for Wargaming DevOps engineers

  After builds began taking close to two hours to complete with disk storage, Wargaming installed a Kaminario all-flash array to keep DevOps engineers busy.

• October 05, 2016 05 Oct'16

  Investors pony up $51M to lift Druva software’s cloud backup

  Druva has scored $51 million in new private financing to diversify its cloud backup platform and accelerate global marketing and sales. The vendor said part of the proceeds will be used to ...

• October 05, 2016 05 Oct'16

  Infinidat InfiniBox given compression injection, native iSCSI

  Infinidat claims InfiniBox can scale to 5 PB effective capacity in a 42U array and has 'carrier-grade' iSCSI in its enterprise SAN array; it still revolves around spinning disk.

• October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16

  Storage startup Hedvig CEO: Private, public clouds blurring

  Storage startup Hedvig's CEO envisions self-service, virtualized, distributed storage running on commodity hardware across customer-run data centers and public clouds.

• September 30, 2016 30 Sep'16

  Dell EMC to 'stay the course' with flash storage portfolio

  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 ...

• September 30, 2016 30 Sep'16

  Maxta makes MxSP HCI software version perpetually free

  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 ...

• September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16

  Startup Datera stretches Elastic Data Fabric with all-flash nodes

  Datera Elastic Data Fabric qualifies Dell PowerEdge servers, adds all-flash nodes, and increases scaling to 50 nodes and 5 PB raw capacity per cluster.

• September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16

  Spectra BlackPearl line grows family, archive customer base

  Spectra Logic is extending its BlackPearl Deep Storage Gateway line upwards and downwards. The tape vendor has added an entry-level model and a much larger offering that more than triples the ...

• September 27, 2016 27 Sep'16

  Virtual Instruments teaches VirtualWisdom NAS expertise

  Virtual Instruments taps into expertise gained through the Load DynamiX merger to teach its VirtualWisdom analytics products to monitor NAS, along with Fibre Channel SAN arrays.

• September 27, 2016 27 Sep'16

  IDC: Total worldwide storage systems revenue remained flat in Q2

  Research firm IDC reports factory revenues for worldwide purpose-built backup appliances (PBBA) experienced solid growth in the second quarter while enterprise storage systems revenue remained flat ...

• September 26, 2016 26 Sep'16

  New NetApp AFF, FAS arrays launch with ONTAP upgrade

  NetApp all-flash arrays and hybrid storage arrays get updates, along with the ONTAP operating system and added support for Microsoft Azure, to kick off its annual technical conference.

• September 23, 2016 23 Sep'16

  StorageCraft buys backup analytics from Gillware

  StorageCraft will use its new analytics technology to tell its customers to stop backing up certain data. That’s right, the data protection vendor wants its customers to back up less. And ...

• September 22, 2016 22 Sep'16

  Hedvig storage update offers multicloud capabilities

  Hedvig outlined its vision for a Universal Data Plane spanning public and private clouds, as it announced an updated version of its software-defined storage.

• September 22, 2016 22 Sep'16

  Zetta cloud storage now offers recovery in less than five minutes

  Zetta unveiled the latest version of its disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) that promises data recovery in less than five minutes. The company initially launched its DRaaS back in May 2015 to ...

• September 21, 2016 21 Sep'16

  New SNIA Swordfish spec targets hyperscale, cloud environments

  The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) released Swordfish, a new specification that could ease the management of storage equipment and data services in converged, hyper-converged, ...

• September 19, 2016 19 Sep'16

  Nutanix IPO looks like a go

  Nutanix took the last step before completing its initial public offering today when it set the target price range for its offering. Nutanix filed an S-1 registration form with the Securities and ...

• September 16, 2016 16 Sep'16

  Veritas: Dell EMC’s no marriage made in heaven

  LAS VEGAS -- In the pre-Symantec days when Veritas was an independent storage software company, its executives frequently bashed their primary competitor EMC. That rhetoric cooled after Symantec ...

• September 15, 2016 15 Sep'16

  Dell EMC injects PowerEdge into ScaleIO Nodes, DSSD

  Dell EMC uses Dell PowerEdge x86 servers for new ScaleIO Ready Nodes -- including an all-flash model -- and adds DSSD D5 flash array cards to PowerEdge rack servers.

• September 15, 2016 15 Sep'16

  Violin flash upgrade: Is it a high note or swan song?

  Struggling Violin Memory launches two new Flash Storage Platform arrays with improved performance, lower latency and encryption in hopes of surviving in crowded all-flash market.

• September 13, 2016 13 Sep'16

  New DDN WOS object appliance targets performance, capacity

  DataDirect Networks is expanding its Web Object Scaler portfolio with a new 8460 object storage appliance that focuses on performance and capacity.

• September 13, 2016 13 Sep'16

  IDrive cloud introduces 'private' property

  Backup vendor IDrive has added the private cloud to its repertoire, allowing customers to keep backup data on premises as well as in the public cloud. The IDrive Private Cloud appliance features 6 ...

• September 12, 2016 12 Sep'16

  Nimble Storage pricing gets new on-demand, cloud-like option

  Nimble Storage launches new quality of service, multi-tenancy features and cloud-like pricing option to help IT organizations take app-centric approach to storage management.

• September 10, 2016 10 Sep'16

  Barracuda storage swims with hardware, software upgrades

  Customers of Barracuda Networks just received some welcome news. In tandem with an upcoming software release, the backup specialist gave a 25% capacity boost to one of its midrange disk-based ...

• September 09, 2016 09 Sep'16

  Nasuni cloud storage moves all-flash, disk appliances to Dell

  The NF-600 edge filer for solid-state drives highlights a refresh across Nasuni's cloud hardware gateways. NF appliances are now standardized on Dell PowerEdge servers.

• September 09, 2016 09 Sep'16

  Violin Memory's latest quarter to forget

  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 ...

• September 08, 2016 08 Sep'16

  NetApp E-Series 2800 storage tackles big data

  Customers can order E-Series 2800 arrays as hybrid storage or now as NetApp all-flash storage. SANtricity OS upgrade includes tool to define logical data lakes on NetApp arrays.

• September 08, 2016 08 Sep'16

  Diablo flash DIMM partnership woos server makers

  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 ...

• September 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  Dell EMC now 'open for business'

  Dell's $60 billion-plus acquisition creates a new storage behemoth, called Dell EMC, but it will take a while to address all lingering concerns about the new company.

• September 06, 2016 06 Sep'16

  Vendors target storage for containers with DevOps in mind

  Enterprises have new tools to manage storage for Docker containers in production. Legacy vendors and startups are adding techniques for data protection, mobility and persistent storage.

• September 06, 2016 06 Sep'16

  Storage operational analytics tools add value

  New features and functionality are constantly being added to storage systems. As operations have come to depend on functions such as remote replication and snapshots embedded in the storage ...

• September 01, 2016 01 Sep'16

  Datrium storage update boosts server flash cache capacity

  Datrium this week released a software update that enables a doubling of the per-server capacity of the flash cache used with its DVX storage system for VMware virtual machines. Datrium’s ...

• September 01, 2016 01 Sep'16

  Plexistor nonvolatile storage software gets wrapped in hardware

  Plexistor unveils Persistent Memory over Fabric hardware bundles. The startup's storage-defined memory platform presents DRAM and nonvolatile storage in a single namespace.

• September 01, 2016 01 Sep'16

  EMC expects to pass Nutanix as HCI leader by mid-2017

  “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 ...

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  Catalogic copy data management tool gets Pure

  Copy data management specialist Catalogic Software has added two all-flash arrays to its roster of supported platforms. In separate moves, the Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey-based software maker rolled ...

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  Dell-EMC deal closes Sept. 7

  LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Dell and EMC made it official today. Dell will close its $67 billion acquisition of the largest storage vendor Sept. 7, following the transaction’s official approval today by ...

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  NexentaStor, Primary Data, NooBaa roll out software-defined technology

  Nexenta brings out NexentaStor 5 and NexentaFusion 1, while Primary Data and NooBaa add software-defined virtualization and Maxta delivers free HCI software at VMworld 2016.

• August 29, 2016 29 Aug'16

  Rackspace cloud gets acquired, set to go private

  An equity firm will acquire Rackspace so the cloud vendor can go private and transition away from competing with the likes of Amazon Web Services and partner with them instead. The $32 per share ...

• August 29, 2016 29 Aug'16

  Hitachi UCP HC adds all-flash model, VSP beefs up VVOLs support

  The Hitachi UCP HC V240F is an all-flash version of a hybrid hyper-converged system launched in June; both versions start with three nodes and scale a node at a time.

• August 28, 2016 28 Aug'16

  Nutanix expands, pockets PernixData, Calm.io

  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 ...