Storage vendors
This topics page collects the latest information on storage vendors and product information, including buying guides. It covers top enterprise storage vendors, data storage vendors, and cloud storage and online storage providers, and tracks mergers and acquisitions, executive shuffles and funding information. The news section tracks leading storage vendors and startups.
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Report
17 Jan 2024
TechTarget Storage Products of the Year 2023 nomination form
Nominate your favorite or best storage products for the annual TechTarget Storage Products of the Year awards. Continue Reading
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Feature
11 Aug 2023
TechTarget Storage Products of the Year judging criteria
This article discusses how products are judged for the TechTarget Storage Products of the Year awards. Continue Reading
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News
06 Feb 2018
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. Continue Reading
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Podcast
31 Jan 2018
Veeam CEO Peter McKay details company's plans, challenges
Peter McKay, co-CEO of Veeam Software, reflects on his year and a half with the company, the evolution of the data protection market and the vendor's future. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Jan 2018
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Jan 2018
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 ... Continue Reading
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News
22 Jan 2018
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. Continue Reading
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News
17 Jan 2018
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. Continue Reading
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News
15 Jan 2018
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. Continue Reading
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News
15 Jan 2018
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. Continue Reading
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News
15 Jan 2018
Data backup and recovery software: 2017 Products of the Year finalists
The backup and disaster recovery software and services finalists include established vendors and newer entrants, offering a wide range of protection across platforms. Continue Reading
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News
15 Jan 2018
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. Continue Reading
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News
15 Jan 2018
Backup hardware devices: 2017 Products of the Year finalists
Backup and disaster recovery hardware products that made the initial cut extend into the cloud and have more support for software-defined storage, data analytics and even tape. Continue Reading
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Guide
15 Jan 2018
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. Continue Reading
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E-Zine
10 Jan 2018
Storage startup trends: Vendors to watch in 2018
Another year is behind us, and 2017 wasn't kind to enterprise-storage startups, as a bunch went belly up or sold off their assets. Not deterred by this recent history and startup trends, a new group of companies has emerged to try and make an impact in 2018. These include Aparavi, Attala Systems, Elastifile, Minio, Morro Data, Vexata, Wasabi Technologies and WekaIO. They have products focused on hot storage sectors, such as flash, hybrid cloud, scale-out file systems and object storage. Who's behind these startups? What do they offer that the market doesn't already provide? And, given recent startup trends, what are their chances for success? Find out with an early look at these upstarts.
A server still looks like a server, and network cables and racks haven't changed much over the last couple of decades, but storage has fundamentally transformed. Disk has lost its crown as the king of primary storage and is becoming relegated to the secondary -- and even cold -- storage world. More significantly, the data center is becoming more software-defined. That means storage functions that once demanded specialized hardware now reside in adaptable, pliable, reprogrammable and easily updateable software constructs. Explore the state of the software-defined storage market.
The advent of virtualization and its need to share all resources threatened the relevance of direct-attached storage (DAS) -- storage within the server. Only the emergence of flash storage, most specifically PCIe SSDs, staved off DAS' extinction, with the likes of Fusion-io demonstrating what you could do with high-speed flash integrated in the server. Today, storage is about to move even further into the server thanks to advancements in storage-class memory -- also known as persistent memory -- technologies. Here's how, why and what this development could mean to you.
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Feature
10 Jan 2018
Eight data storage startup vendors to watch in 2018
Even as other storage startup companies fail, newcomers have appeared to take on established enterprise vendors. Can they ride the momentum for flash, hybrid cloud and SDS? Continue Reading
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Blog Post
28 Dec 2017
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 ... Continue Reading
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News
19 Dec 2017
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. Continue Reading
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News
18 Dec 2017
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. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Dec 2017
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. ... Continue Reading
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News
11 Dec 2017
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. Continue Reading
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Opinion
05 Dec 2017
Peering into the future of enterprise storage for 2018
Rich Castagna takes a crack at the annual rite of prognostication with a bold look -- unfettered by truth, reality and sanity -- at data storage trends in the coming year. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
30 Nov 2017
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Nov 2017
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
26 Nov 2017
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Nov 2017
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Nov 2017
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 ... Continue Reading
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Feature
03 Nov 2017
Demand for cold data storage heats up
The exponential rise in unstructured data is one of many reasons for the upsurge in demand for cost-effective cold storage products, services and media. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
01 Nov 2017
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 ... Continue Reading
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News
31 Oct 2017
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. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
30 Oct 2017
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
27 Oct 2017
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 ... Continue Reading
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E-Zine
06 Oct 2017
Dell EMC acquisition: The deal of the century a year later
A year has passed since the Dell EMC acquisition, the biggest transaction in the history of IT. With the benefit of hindsight, we examine the positives, negatives and uncertainties of the deal. Did Dell buy the world's biggest storage vendor, or did EMC round out its infrastructure strategy? Was the timing of the Dell EMC acquisition good, and were the reasons behind it sound? Does it matter? What are the long-term prospects? How about the complications of integrating companies with different corporate cultures and overlapping product lines? What's the effect on the data storage market in general?
Public cloud use has increased at a remarkable rate. So much so, it's a matter of when, not if, public cloud adoption will match on-site infrastructure. Vendor lock-in is a top concern IT decision-makers and practitioners have with cloud services. An emerging set of multicloud primary storage products mitigate this problem by providing data services simultaneously across multiple public clouds. Explore the key drivers and benefits of these multicloud storage products and services. Find out what customers want from them. And learn about the vendors that meet these diverse customer requirements and how they deliver on the promise of multicloud storage.
The open source software movement has potential to change the face of storage. With the commoditization of servers and storage media, costs are low and reliability is high enough to use off-the-shelf components to build storage platforms with software-defined storage products, including open source. This trend is reducing or eliminating dependence on proprietary storage hardware and software. Find out which open source technologies support object-, file- and block-based storage individually or in combination.
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Feature
06 Oct 2017
Buying NAS: Do you want performance and scalability?
Although SANs still rule the modern the data center, the NAS array maintains a position high up on tech buyers' shopping lists for new primary storage. Continue Reading
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Feature
06 Oct 2017
A year later: Pros and cons of the Dell and EMC merger
Our experts take measure of the Dell EMC acquisition, the storage and technology merger of the century, a little more than 12 months after the deal closed. Continue Reading
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News
06 Oct 2017
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. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
06 Oct 2017
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 ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 Oct 2017
Infinidat boxes up $95M funding haul
Infinidat picked up $95 million in funding today to help fuel an aggressive product expansion – including moves into secondary storage and a public cloud offering. Goldman Sachs Private Capital ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
02 Oct 2017
NetApp Insight: Las Vegas should have time to grieve first
LAS VEGAS - This blog was supposed to tell our readers about the big developments surrounding Day 1 of the NetApp Insight user conference. Sadly, today’s subject matter touches on more sobering ... Continue Reading
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News
02 Oct 2017
Toshiba memory business sale faces bumpy road
Toshiba signs a $17.7 billion deal to sell its memory business to a Bain-led consortium that includes Dell and Seagate, but Western Digital's SanDisk wants to stop it. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
27 Sep 2017
Dell EMC’s XC (Nutanix) HCI box protects MS Hyper-V VMs
Dell EMC today enhanced its Nutanix-powered XC hyper-converged platform by adding data protection features for Microsoft Windows Hyper-V. The news, made during Microsoft Ignite, shows Dell EMC is ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
26 Sep 2017
Branson’s Veritas Vision 2017 warning: Act now on climate
Virgin Group founder Richard Branson stepped away from his hurricane relief efforts last week to warn against climate change inaction at Veritas Vision 2017 in Las Vegas. Branson said the recent ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 Sep 2017
Enter Your Great Storage Product in the Products of the Year Competition
In just a few days, the door will shut—and your outstanding data storage product will be left standing out in the cold rather than in the running for a Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Storage ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 Sep 2017
Dell EMC storage gets new boss
Of all the EMC executives who left the company since the Dell acquisition, the departure of David Goulden will have the greatest impact on the Dell EMC storage business. Dell dropped the news that ... Continue Reading
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News
18 Sep 2017
New Pure Storage CEO Giancarlo faces scaling challenge
Former Cisco exec Charles Giancarlo takes over as CEO of Pure Storage from Scott Dietzen with the all-flash pioneer set to become a billion-dollar baby. Will profits follow? Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 Sep 2017
Nasuni cloud NAS helps score $38 million in funding
Cloud-based file service provider Nasuni last week closed on $38 million in funding to boost its expansion plans in research and development and its channel and go-to-market efforts. The Goldman ... Continue Reading
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News
14 Sep 2017
Everspin Technologies nvNITRO ST-MRAM SSDs ready to ship
Everspin's new ST-MRAM-based nvNITRO Storage Accelerator pledges 'DRAM-like' performance, but analysts say the high price could limit the SSD's use cases. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Sep 2017
Toshiba memory business sale points to Bain-led consortium
The Toshiba memory business could be sold to a Bain Capital-led consortium that reportedly includes Apple, Dell Technologies and Seagate if the parties can strike a deal that passes legal muster ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Sep 2017
Dell EMC Isilon helps preserve tennis history
At the U.S. Open tennis tournament last week, Rafael Nadal solidified his Hall of Fame credentials and Sloane Stephens became a hall of fame candidate. And the International Tennis Hall of Fame ... Continue Reading
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Answer
13 Sep 2017
Can I replace HDDs with SSDs to support in-memory storage?
Replacing all your HDDs with SSDs won't solve the storage issues associated with in-memory databases. Look to hyper-convergence and NVDIMMs instead. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Sep 2017
Spectra Logic BlackPearl NAS disk appliance launches
Spectra Logic has added a midrange BlackPearl NAS disk appliance to augment its tape-based object storage. Spectra Logic launched the object-based BlackPearl line as a linear tape file system ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Sep 2017
Tintri revenue misses target, but earnings are a surprise
Private enterprise cloud specialist Tintri Inc. on Thursday posted mixed financial results in its first earnings call since going public in June. The bottom line: lackluster Tintri revenue was ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Sep 2017
Dell EMC storage sags in the middle
What do you do when storage sales slow down? If you’re Dell EMC, you add velocity to the sales process. “Storage velocity” was a frequently used term during Dell’s earnings call this morning. On ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
06 Sep 2017
HPE storage more Nimble after $1.2 billion buy
HPE storage sales received a boost last quarter from its $1.2 bilion Nimble Storage acquisition. HPE did not break out its total storage revenue by product, or even give a total amount except to ... Continue Reading
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Feature
06 Sep 2017
The copy data management market is starting to go mainstream
Products from copy data management vendors protect and manage production data to lower storage costs, speed data access and streamline self-service access to data copies. Continue Reading
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News
06 Sep 2017
Coho Data falls victim to 'cutthroat' data storage market
After receiving $76 million to develop DataStream hybrid NAS arrays, Coho Data can't find more investors and falls into the storage startup graveyard. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Sep 2017
Nutanix revenue jumps as competition grows
Hyper-converged pioneer Nutanix grew revenue 72% in its first year as a public company. Nutanix revenue grew to $767 million during a span in which competition intensified. Dell EMC, Hewlett ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
31 Aug 2017
VMworld 2017 Notes: Dell favors storage R&D over M&A
LAS VEGAS -- Before their merger, EMC and Dell were active buyers of storage companies. In the past year, neither has made an acquisition. That’s understandable, considering the price that Dell ... Continue Reading
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News
30 Aug 2017
Tegile becomes the latest Western Digital acquisition
Western Digital's acquisition spree continues with the pickup of flash vendor Tegile Systems. The drive-maker says Tegile storage complements its ActiveScale object storage. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Aug 2017
Pure Storage CEO swap: Dietzen out, Giancarlo in
Pure Storage CEO Scott Dietzen resigned unexpectedly Thursday, as the all-flash pioneer named former Cisco executive Charlie Giancarlo its new leader. Dietzen will stay at Pure as chairman, ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Aug 2017
MozyEnterprise backup tool finds a new key for security
Dell EMC's Mozy has unlocked a new encryption key security feature for its enterprise backup product. MozyEnterprise now provides support for the Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP), ... Continue Reading
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News
02 Aug 2017
Red Hat acquires Permabit for inline deduplication
Permabit's inline compression, data deduplication and thin provisioning software will be integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux to help boost performance and lower costs. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
31 Jul 2017
NetApp cloud strategy includes SolidFire, SDS
Created in the 20th century to sell storage to engineers, NetApp has survived for 25 years to remain the largest standing data storage company not tied to a server vendor. Founder Dave Hitz credits ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
28 Jul 2017
WD-Toshiba memory sale requires 2-week notice to WD
Toshiba and Western Digital's SanDisk subsidiary acted on a San Francisco judge's suggestion today and agreed that Toshiba would give SanDisk two weeks' notice before closing on a transfer or sale ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Jul 2017
Seagate revenue slides, CEO Luczo says ‘see ya later’
Seagate Technology changed its CEO, reported a revenue miss, and disclosed plans to cut 600 jobs -- all on the same day. The hard disk drive and systems vendor today said Dave Mosley, the company's ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 Jul 2017
Symbolic IO CEO Ignomirello arrested on assault charges
Symbolic IO, identified as one of SearchStorage’s storage startups to watch in 2017, now bears watching for different reasons than the other vendors on the list. Brian Ignomirello, 46, the Symbolic ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 Jul 2017
IBM flash storage and cloud rare revenue bright spots
While IBM's revenue dropped for the 21st straight quarter, its storage business proved a bright spot. Following its own 22-quarter slump, IBM storage is now on a two-quarter winning streak. During ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
19 Jul 2017
Broadcom-Brocade deal delayed, with ‘no assurances’
The $5.9 billion Broadcom-Brocade acquisition has been delayed 30 days, which may turn into a 75-day delay. That's if the deal happens at all. SAN switching vendor Brocade Tuesday evening said the ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Jul 2017
DataGravity's data-aware storage scooped up by HyTrust
As a standalone company, DataGravity is no more. But the startup’s data-aware storage technology will live inside of HyTrust's cloud security products. HyTrust, based in Mountain View, Calif., ... Continue Reading
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Feature
12 Jul 2017
Is enterprise object storage ready to lead?
As object storage benefits become more enticing to enterprises for internal storage uses and not just for cloud, vendors are overcoming its drawbacks. Continue Reading
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News
06 Jul 2017
CEO Harr predicts Panzura storage shift to software deployments
Panzura CEO Patrick Harr predicts more customers will shift from using the company's physical appliances to VM-based software deployments in the cloud by year's end. Continue Reading
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News
05 Jul 2017
Post-IPO, Tintri software plan comes into sharp focus
Tintri will scale back head-to-head matchups in all-flash array market; stand-alone software accounts for a growing portion of storage revenue, CTO and co-founder Kieran Harty says. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 Jul 2017
Toshiba says enterprise demand remains for 15,000 rpm HDD
Tape isn't dead, and neither are 15,000 rpm enterprise hard disk drives. Not yet, at least. Toshiba recently began shipping a new AL14SX Series of 15,000 rpm HDD products designed for ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Jun 2017
Tintri IPO aims at lower share price
The Tintri IPO remains a go for now, but the flash vendor now expects less of a financial windfall than originally anticipated. The vendor's long-awaited initial public offering (IPO) of stock ... Continue Reading
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News
29 Jun 2017
Formation Data Systems exits crowded software-defined market
Formation Data's recent demise shows the challenges startups face in differentiating products in a crowded software-defined storage market, industry analysts say. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 Jun 2017
Japan-backed group is 'preferred bidder' for Toshiba memory business
Financially troubled Toshiba chose a Japan-backed consortium as the preferred bidder for its memory business, despite Western Digital's continuing claims that no sale can happen without its SanDisk ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Jun 2017
FlexPod SF converges NetApp SolidFire onto Cisco hardware
SUNNYVALE, California -- NetApp today launched its second SolidFire-based converged product this month, this time in partnership with Cisco. The FlexPod SF extends the FlexPod converged ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 Jun 2017
FalconStor Software hires new CEO, Quinn to resign
Come July 1, FalconStor Software will have a new leader. And that leader will have fewer followers due to plans for a new round of staff reductions. Storage industry veteran Todd Oseth will replace ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
19 Jun 2017
Pure Accelerate 2017 closes San Francisco warehouse in style
At its Pure Accelerate 2017 conference this week, Pure Storage gave a new interpretation to the term data warehouse. A reported 3,000 analysts, customers and resellers gathered in a ... Continue Reading
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News
14 Jun 2017
DDN IME flash cache, SFA operating system get updates
DataDirect Networks focused on performance and resilience in updates to its Infinite Memory Engine flash cache and Storage Fusion Architecture operating system. Continue Reading
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Tip
13 Jun 2017
GlusterFS vs. Ceph: Weighing the open source combatants
When considering open source storage software, GlusterFS and Ceph share that designation and little else. Knowing how each option works can help in the selection process. Continue Reading
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News
12 Jun 2017
MapR Technologies launches enterprise file storage product
MapR expands beyond analytics into the enterprise storage market with an exabyte-scale data store designed to manage files and containers in data centers and across clouds. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Jun 2017
Dell EMC storage revenue drops – was the calendar to blame?
Dell EMC revenue from storage systems in the first quarter dropped 16% from 2016 according to IDC, a fall Dell EMC executives blame on a change in the vendor’s reporting calendar. Dell EMC uses the ... Continue Reading
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Feature
08 Jun 2017
Container ecosystem needs to expand its persistence of vision
Persistent storage for containers will become a necessity as the stateless computing method becomes less about just DevOps and more about end-user applications. Continue Reading
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News
06 Jun 2017
Hitachi Content Platform 8 focuses on cutting storage cost
Hitachi Data Systems updates its HCP object storage system with support for 10 TB helium HDDs, geographically distributed erasure coding, KVM hypervisors and new licensing options. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Jun 2017
Tintri IPO filing shows spikes in sales, heavy losses
When technology executives discuss initial public offerings these days, they usually say how the goal has shifted from rapid growth to fiscal responsibility. In other words, investors want to see a ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
01 Jun 2017
HPE storage looks to Nimble, SimpliVity for jolt
Recent Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) storage acquisitions will play a key role in “reengineering” the company, CEO Meg Whitman said. During HPE’s earnings call Wednesday night, Whitman called ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 May 2017
Nutanix revenue, relationships grow
Nutanix’s success selling hyper-converged software depends largely on how well it both competes with and partners with the large server vendors. Nutanix revenue beat expectations last quarter, ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 May 2017
NetApp pockets Plexistor, nonvolatile memory software
NetApp quietly slipped an acquisition of storage memory software startup Plexistor into an earnings call otherwise noteworthy for strong results last quarter and a disappointing forecast for this ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 May 2017
Pure Storage flash lineup could be billion-dollar baby
Pure Storage executives claim the flash pioneer is on pace for $1 billion in revenue for 2017, plus its first profitable quarter by the end of the year. Neither goal is assured, but both seem ... Continue Reading
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News
17 May 2017
OpenStack Ocata storage projects add enterprise features
The Cinder, Swift and Manila OpenStack storage projects focused on performance, stability, scalability and enterprise-level capabilities in the latest Ocata release cycle. Continue Reading
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News
17 May 2017
Western Digital ships enterprise SAS-based 3D NAND SSDs
Tired of waiting for NVMe? Western Digital's HGST Ultrastar-branded 12 Gbps SAS-based 3D NAND SSDs target high-performance virtual, database, analytics and cloud workloads. Continue Reading
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News
15 May 2017
OpenStack release sees drop in storage vendor contributors
OpenStack's Cinder, Swift and Manila storage projects experience a decline in vendor contributors heading into the upcoming release of the latest iteration, Pike. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 May 2017
Dell EMC World: Virtustream cloud launches for healthcare
New Dell EMC cloud storage has appeared on the horizon, providing a silver lining for IT-pressed healthcare shops. Virtustream Healthcare Cloud, which launched this week at Dell EMC World 2017, is ... Continue Reading
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News
11 May 2017
Dell EMC World 2017: HCI, startup investments, Nautilus
This year's Dell EMC World served as a coming-out party for Dell Technologies Capital, 'Project Nautilus' and IoT storage, and as a showcase for current products. Continue Reading
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News
10 May 2017
New Dell EMC PowerEdge serves up storage expansion
New PowerEdge 14G servers from Dell EMC form the 'bedrock of the new data center,' Michael Dell says. Ready Nodes and software-defined block storage are among the new products. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 May 2017
FalconStor FreeStor makes progress, but vendor sales still down
Beleaguered software vendor FalconStor Software reported a cash flow positive first quarter of 2017, although that highlight came more on the back of spending cuts than improved sales. FalconStor ... Continue Reading
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News
08 May 2017
Micron SolidScale NVMe-oF-based storage architecture emerges
Micron Technology launched its SolidScale storage architecture based on NVMe-oF technologies, with plans for branded appliances to start shipping later this year. Continue Reading
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News
04 May 2017
Dell EMC World 2017: Flash, HCI and cloud take center stage
This year's Dell EMC World will feature plenty of product releases as the mega-vendor beefs up emerging technologies while continuing its pre-merger platforms. Continue Reading
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News
01 May 2017
Will the flash storage market see another big acquisition?
HPE's $1.2 billion deal for Nimble Storage has stirred speculation on potential future acquisitions in the all-flash array market, such as Kaminario and Pure Storage. Continue Reading