Storage

NetApp Sees Massive All-Flash Array Growth In Q1

by Joseph F. Kovar

The company's net annual run rate for all-flash storage rose 50 percent year-over-year to $2.2 billion, leading to an overall revenue spike of 12 percent over last year.

NetApp, Nvidia Intro New A.I. Architecture With Strong Cloud Tie

by Joseph Kovar

By combining NetApp's AFF A800 NVMe array, Nvidia's DGX GPUs and Cisco 100-Gbit networking, customers get a high-performance artificial intelligence offering that, with NetApp's Data Fabric, works with data from the edge to the core to the cloud.

Actifio Thinks Big: New $106 Million Funding To Expand Growth, Prep IPO

by Joseph F. Kovar

Actifio, one of the IT industry's storage unicorns with a valuation of over $1.3 billion, expects the new funding to help it expand its global reach and develop its data management platform.

HPE Brings Nimble Predictive Analytics To 3PAR Storage

by Joseph F. Kovar

3PAR has included in-the-box analytics, but will now have the full InfoSight capabilities that enabled a fix to one Nimble Storage array automatically patch the entire installed base.

Cohesity Adds Google Cloud Platform Data Protection

by Joseph F. Kovar

Cohesity kicked off its Google Next presence with the introduction of Google Cloud Platform integration to its cloud-based DataPlatform Cloud Edition, which previously worked with AWS and Azure.

DataDirect Networks CEO: Acquiring Tintri Would Accelerate Move Into Enterprise, Expand Existing Technology

by Joseph F. Kovar

DDN CEO Alex Bouzari tells CRN that the company is interested in Tintri's technology, intellectual property and product portfolio and wants to add stability and continuity in the road map.

DataDirect Networks Throws Lifeline To Tintri With Buyout Offer

by Joseph F. Kovar

The acquisition, which would give DDN a high-performance, VMware-aware all-flash storage business, would be its second acquisition in under a month after it acquired Intel's Lustre file system business.

IBM's New FlashSystem 9100 All-NVMe Flash Storage Comes Loaded

by Joseph F. Kovar

IBM's latest entry in the all-flash storage array business is aimed at performance thanks to its end-to-end NVMe architecture, and includes software that the company said will make it the center of a hybrid on-premises and multi-cloud infrastructure.

Tintri Channel Partners Lament All-Flash Storage Vendor's Fate

by Joseph F. Kovar

Tintri became famous for its VMware-aware all-flash storage array, but never managed to find a solid financial footing, a situation channel partners blamed in part on the company's management.

Dell EMC Expects New PowerMax, Refreshed XtremIO X2 All-flash Arrays To Help Arrest Storage Sales Slip

by Joseph F. Kovar

The new PowerMax line with NVMe support and real-time machine learning, along with upgraded software and a lower price on the XtremIO X2 lines, could be boost the Dell EMC all-flash storage business needs to regrow market share.

Western Digital Makes Significant Enhancements To Three Storage System Lines

by Joseph F. Kovar

The company, best known for its disk and flash storage drives, rolled out big upgrades to its IntelliFlash high-performance flash array line, its ActiveScale scalable object storage line, and its Ultrastar storage server line for software-defined storage.

NetApp Channel Connect: CEO Kurian Tells Partners NetApp Ready To Lead In Cloud, HCI, Flash

by Joseph F. Kovar

NetApp CEO George Kurian opened the NetApp Channel Connect conference proclaiming that NetApp is the only storage vendor to make a commitment to provide an open platform that works seamlessly with Azure, Amazon, and Google public clouds.

Blobs Get WORM: Microsoft Adds Immutable Storage To Azure Storage Blobs

by Joseph F. Kovar

Microsoft Azure partners praised the new write-once-read-many (WORM) capability for Azure Storage Blobs as key to getting customers with regulatory concerns to trust the Azure cloud with their sensitive data.

HPE Discover Partner View With Nth Generation's Rich Baldwin

by Diana Blass

Nth Generation's Rich Baldwin weighs in on the new GreenLake Flex Capacity offering, Antonio Neri's leadership and more at HPE Discover.

HPE Discover Day Three: CEO Antonio Neri's Dell Throwdown, HPE's Edgeline Converged Edge Systems Debut

by Diana Blass

On the final day of HPE Discover, HPE debuts the Edgeline Converged Edge Systems to help organizations simplify their hypbrid IT environment.