News, Analysis and Opinion for Storage - Page 6

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 ...

April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

Scality Rings up $60 million funding round

With a fresh $60 million in funding, Scality CEO Jerome Lecat said he expects the object storage vendor to become profitable within two years. Scality, which launched its Ring object storage in ...

April 12, 2018 12 Apr'18

OwnBackup lands $15.5M to fund further SaaS backup

OwnBackup closed its largest funding round to date and will use it to propel product work and double employee headcount, the cloud-to-cloud backup and restore vendor said today. The $15.5 million ...

April 10, 2018 10 Apr'18

Broadcom preps for NVMe over Fibre Channel with Brocade gear

Broadcom ships its first Brocade FC switching products and updates SAN management for NVMe with the goal of making Fibre Channel the fabric of choice for NVMe storage.

April 05, 2018 05 Apr'18

IDC: Dell No. 1 in CI, HCI revenue

Dell won the trifecta in the latest IDC Quarterly Converged Tracker report. Dell Technologies-owned technology led market share across the board in converged and hyper-converged systems, according ...

April 05, 2018 05 Apr'18

Datrium storage software adds AWS cloud backup

Datrium DVX 4.0 adds enterprise features such as AWS' cloud backup and recovery service, Oracle RAC support, VM fault tolerance and FIPS 140-2 security validation.

April 04, 2018 04 Apr'18

Qumulo P-Series packs NVMe into scale-out NAS

Qumulo goes after organizations with large, unstructured data stores that have a new need for speed with its all-flash NVMe P-Series scale-out NAS, which holds up to 24 NVMe SSD drives in a node.

April 03, 2018 03 Apr'18

Elastifile adds NFS file services to Google Cloud Launcher

Startup Elastifile makes available push-button option to deploy its NFS-based scale-out file system on hourly or long-term basis with fast solid-state drives on Google Cloud Platform.

April 02, 2018 02 Apr'18

Large investor Elliott challenges Commvault management

Investors cheered hedge fund Elliott Management’s disclosed stake in Commvault today, which will likely lead to a shakeup of the data management vendor’s management team and board. Elliott, citing ...

April 02, 2018 02 Apr'18

Wasabi Technologies eliminates cloud storage egress fees

Startup Wasabi seeks to shake up pricing by eliminating egress fees major cloud storage providers AWS, Google and Microsoft charge to transfer data.

April 02, 2018 02 Apr'18

Zerto replication backs IBM Resiliency Orchestration

IBM has enlisted Zerto as the muscle behind physical and virtual data protection. The Zerto replication engine is powering IBM's Resiliency Orchestration disaster recovery as a service. IBM’s ...

April 02, 2018 02 Apr'18

Nvidia, Pure Storage FlashBlade lift 'AIRI' infrastructure

Pure Storage AIRI is AI-ready infrastructure that integrates Pure's all-flash FlashBlade NAND storage blades and four Nvidia DGX-1 artificial intelligence supercomputers.

March 30, 2018 30 Mar'18

Gluster 4.0 updated for containers, cloud

The first major release of the open source Gluster distributed file system software since December 2009 takes aim at container integration and storage management improvements for hybrid and ...

March 28, 2018 28 Mar'18

Upgraded Infinidat InfiniBox hoists sail on product launch

Infinidat disk arrays double capacity to 8 petabytes per rack. The new InfiniBox products include InfiniSync DR box, InfiniGuard backup appliance and the Infinidat-hosted Neutrix Cloud.

March 28, 2018 28 Mar'18

HYCU software becomes independent company

Nine months ago, Comtrade Software launched HYCU software designed specifically to back up Nutanix hyper-converged systems. Now Comtrade Software has become HYCU. Comtrade Software today officially ...

March 26, 2018 26 Mar'18

Pure Storage CEO Giancarlo races toward NVMe-oF, ponders HCI

The new Pure Storage CEO sees NVMe as the immediate future for flash storage; he's also considering hyper-convergence and 'looking at some things' on the M&A front.

March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

Toshiba NVMe lineup adds new SSDs, software to pool drives

Toshiba bolsters NVMe support with new 2.5-inch U.2 and small-form-factor M.2 solid-state drives and KumoScale storage software to pool NVMe SSDs over a network fabric.

March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

Symbolic IO becomes Formulus Black

Symbolic IO has changed its name as part of “complete rebranding” months after its founder was arrested on a domestic violence charge. Symbolic IO is now called Formulus Black. The company made no ...

March 19, 2018 19 Mar'18

Nimbus Data due to ship 100 TB SSD this summer

Nimbus Data claims the new ExaDrive DC100 will draw less power, improve endurance and provide balanced read and write performance compared with other enterprise SSDs.

March 16, 2018 16 Mar'18

Ctera Networks CEO: enterprise subscriptions spiking

Ctera Networks claimed subscription revenue for its enterprise file services platform more than doubled in fiscal 2017, pushing the company to record results for the year. As a private company, ...

March 15, 2018 15 Mar'18

SolarWinds SRM keeps an eye on new all-flash arrays

SolarWinds updates Storage Resource Monitor to support more all-flash arrays and adds application-dependency functionality to Server & Application Monitor.

March 14, 2018 14 Mar'18

New Tintri CEO Tom Barton set to take the reins in April

Tintri wasted little time finding a CEO to try and boost its sagging fortunes. On Tuesday, the hybrid flash vendor named IT veteran Thomas Barton as successor to Tintri CEO Ken Klein, who announced ...

March 14, 2018 14 Mar'18

Panzura storage adds Private Secure Site Mode feature

The Panzura Freedom 7.1 cloud storage software release features Private Secure Site Mode to let security-focused IT organizations disable external communications.

March 08, 2018 08 Mar'18

Dell data storage remains the weak link in FY18 revenue

Finding a way to grow enterprise storage and data protection will comprise a major focus for Dell Technologies this year, company executives told analysts during an earnings call on Wednesday. Dell ...

March 08, 2018 08 Mar'18

Nexsan arrays 'ARM' national lab with redundant disk storage

Nexsan Unity disk arrays are based on a dual-controller NST platform. Argonne National Lab uses the storage for continuous operations in inhospitable environments.

March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

Tintri flash sales won't keep CEO Klein in job much longer

Popularity of Tintri E6000 flash storage helped the vendor beat quarterly revenue and earnings estimates on Monday, but muting the upbeat tone was news of layoffs and CEO Ken Klein’s decision to ...

March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

WekaIO CEO says focus will stay on AI, life sciences

WekaIO CEO Liran Zvibel sees partnerships with HPE, Mellanox and AWS as key for the startup, as it pursues growth opportunities in artificial intelligence and life sciences.

March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

Cloudian HyperStore gains on-demand pricing, new funding

IT Investment firm Digital Alpha ponies up $125 million to Cloudian. Most of the new money will fund expanded inventory to support consumption pricing of local HyperStore arrays.

March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

Imanis Data pulls in $13.5 million for databases protection

Imanis Data raised $13.5 million in a series B funding round and hired a new CEO as it aims to grow its business to protect next-generation NoSQL databases. The Imanis Data Management Suite ...

March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

Nutanix CEO: Next, we’ll hyper-converged clouds

Nutanix, recently recognized by Gartner as the hyper-convergence leader in the data center, wants to hyper-converge clouds over the next few years. Nutanix continued its strong growth with a 44% ...

March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18

Pure Storage revenue tops $1 billion, says ‘hello’ to profit

Pure Storage has joined the billion-dollar club. On Thursday, the all-flash provider completed two long-sought goals by posting fiscal-year revenue of $1.023 billion, up 41%, en route to achieving ...

March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18

Komprise NAS migration leaves no data behind

Startup Komprise added NAS migration to its list of data management features in the new 2.7 release of its software. Komprise Intelligent Data Management customers can now migrate from one NAS ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...