IBM external storage sales plummet in Q3. HPE and Huawei do better
IBM's enterprise external storage revenues tumbled 21.6 per cent in the third quarter while HPE and Huawei outgrew an anaemic market. However, there is a helluva long way to...
Hitachi Vantara plots aggressive price setting for new midrange storage arrays
Hitachi Vantara has plumped up the VSP E series arrays with two midrange additions at "aggressive price points", plus a NAS gateway and a managed service.
Update: E790 and...
Lenovo boosts low end all-flash array with end-to-end NVMe
Lenovo has juiced up its entry level all-flash array with NVMe SSDs, NVMe/FC access and faster Fibre Channel support. The company said the new ThinkSystems DM5100F array is suitable...
Pure overtakes NetApp in Gartner magic quadrant for primary arrays
Pure Storage is rated highest in Gartner’s 2020 primary arrays Magic Quadrant (MQ), overtaking NetApp, last year’s front runner.
Gartner defines primary arrays as all-flash or hybrid flash and disk...
The next game changer? Amazon takes on the SAN vendors
Amazon has re-engineered the AWS EBS stack to enable on-premises levels of SAN performance in the cloud. Make no mistake, the cloud giant is training its big guns at...
NetApp’s high-end AFA sales lead it out of pandemic recession
NetApp has posted its second successive quarter of revenue growth, thanks to an unexpected boost in high-end all-flash storage array sales.
The company recorded $1.42bn in revenues for the second...
Portworx and Mayastor Kubernetes block storage flies highest
A study of Kubernetes storage supplier performance has revealed that efficiency of storage code is exposed in cloud-native environments. This has a knock-on effect on performance.
In a recently updated...
Pure Storage is glad to be as-a-service for you
Pure Storage has updated Pure-as-a-Service with service catalogs, transparent pricing, a cheaper entry price for block storage and a subscription version of the FlashStack reference architecture.
Pure products are available...
Pavilion Data: Our unified storage array is the fastest in the universe
Pavilion Data, the high-end array vendor, has released a speedy parallel file system that brings it into direct competition with major HPC storage players for the first time.
The new...
New broom at Hitachi Vantara sweeps away two top execs
Two senior Hitachi Vantara execs have left the company without fanfare, signalling a shakeup by new CEO Gajen Kandiah.
A Hitachi Vantara spokesperson confirmed that CMO Jonathan Martin and ...
Infinidat hires chief product officer. Organogram looks sketchy
Infinidat has appointed a head of product who reports direct to the executive chairman. What does it mean for Kariel Sandler, co-CEO who runs R&D and Operations? And what...
StorCentric scoops up Violin Systems
StorCentric bought the all-flash array pioneer Violin Systems for an undisclosed sum, its fifth acquisition in two years
Todd Oseth, Violin Systems President and CEO, said in his statement: “The...