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• 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 29, 2018 29 Jun'18

  With Tintri layoffs, hybrid vendor waves a final goodbye

  A new round of Tintri layoffs has cost 200 people their jobs, including its top sales executive, as the hybrid vendor winds down operations. The move leaves Tintri with about 40 to 50 ...

• June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18

  Commvault and Azure integrations drive data protection tasks

  Commvault has expanded its integration with Microsoft Azure Stack, also pulling its OEM partner Cisco into deal. With the Commvault Data Platform, enterprises using on-premises Azure Stack hybrid ...

• June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18

  Lustre-based DDN ExaScaler arrays receive NVMe flash

  High-performance computing specialist DataDirect Networks spruced up its ExaScaler SFA-based flagship with nonvolatile memory express flash, and it bought Lustre from Intel.

• June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18

  WDC strives to become 'next great storage' company

  Since its 2012 acquisition of hard disk drive rival HGST, Western Digital Corp. has bought more storage companies than any other vendor. Some of the deals were whoppers, such as the $19 billion ...

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• June 27, 2018 27 Jun'18

  Qumulo storage parts the clouds with its K-Series active archive

  Qumulo introduces the K-144T archive appliance to complement its scale-out NAS systems. The K-Series starts with six nodes, and customers can scale storage in 144 TB increments.

• June 27, 2018 27 Jun'18

  HCI market: rich get richer as Dell, Nutanix flourish

  Dell, VMware and Nutanix continued to dominate the hyper-converged infrastructure market in the first quarter, combining for most of the fast-growing segment. According to IDC’s first quarter ...

• June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18

  Vexata fires up NVMe flash storage to tackle analytics

  Vexata claims about two dozen customers are using its all-flash NVMe VX storage arrays. Vendor says the product upgrade targets growing need for fast storage in cognitive computing.

• June 21, 2018 21 Jun'18

  New 12 Gbps single-port Toshiba SAS SSD takes aim at SATA

  Toshiba designed a new single-ported 12 Gbps RM5 SAS SSD to replace slower 6 Gbps SATA SSDs in servers until faster NVMe-based PCIe SSDs are ready for wider market adoption.

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  SwiftStack 1space facilitates multi-cloud capabilities

  SwiftStack launches single namespace for its object and file storage to ease data access, migration, management and search across private and public clouds.

• June 19, 2018 19 Jun'18

  Tintri CEO Barton tells board: ‘I'm outta here’

  The captain of fast-sinking Tintri has abandoned ship, just three months after he came aboard as a lifesaver. Tintri CEO Thomas Barton, 54, informed the board of his decision on Monday, according ...

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Ceph-based cloud block storage service debuts from Atlantic.Net

  Atlantic.Net's cloud-based block storage service is built on open source Ceph, and it includes an NVMe-based flash cache to boost performance and inexpensive HDDs for back-end storage.

• June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18

  Maxta MxSP dons its Red Hat for container storage

  Maxta MxSP hyper-converged infrastructure is expanding integration with Red Hat. The software-only vendor has added support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, which is built on Red Hat ...

• June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18

  Rubrik Alta goes native for AWS EC2, adds MSP Envoy

  The latest version of Rubrik Alta Cloud Data Management software adds data protection and management capabilities across clouds, for enterprise users as well as managed service providers. Rubrik ...

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  The Tintri storage hourglass is almost out of sand

  Time is winding down for Tintri, whose slow-motion fall could come by the end of June. The remaining question is whether the publicly traded hybrid storage vendor can complete a last-second Hail ...