Storage Soup
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Cinder still No. 1 OpenStack storage project, but Manila interest picks up
29 Apr 2016 -
FalconStor's playing beat the clock with FreeStor
28 Apr 2016 -
Hybrid cloud still an unfulfilled goal for most
15 Mar 2016
Cinder still has the highest adoption rate among OpenStack storage projects, but interest in the nascent Manila file-share service is picking up, according to a 2016 user survey released this month ...
The bad news for FalconsStor is it lost $3.2 million last quarter. If there is good news, it’s that its new FreeStor software is picking up OEM and managed service provider (MSP) customers and ...
Storage vendors often talk about this being a transformation period in storage. EMC, whose executives use that term as much as anybody, conducted an analysis of its customers to see just where they ...
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HPE turns 3PAR array from all-flash to hybrid
- TechTarget 15 Mar 2016 -
Violin Memory receives no offers, makes few sales in Q4
11 Mar 2016 -
Brocade VP: Flash spurs coordinated Gen 6 Fibre Channel launch
03 Mar 2016 -
Pure Storage accelerates flash revenue
03 Mar 2016 -
CSPs spend a lot on storage to enable the cloud
- TechTarget 25 Feb 2016 -
Michael Dell: 'Ignore click-baiting cratering media'
19 Feb 2016 -
NetApp revenue slips keep showing
18 Feb 2016
For years we’ve seen storage vendors take systems designed for hard disk drives (HDDs) and add solid-state drives (SSDs) to them. Now Hewlett Packard Enterprise is taking hardware that ran all SSDs ...
Violin Memory finished its hunt for a buyer without a deal. It did land a few partnerships, while shedding a quarter of its workforce and closing few sales of its all-flash storage arrays. Violin ...
Brocade, QLogic and Broadcom coordinated this week’s shipments of the first switches and adapters to support Gen 6 Fibre Channel storage networking technology. We caught up with Jack Rondoni, vice ...
Pure Storage is looking at more competition and more opportunity than ever, and handling both well. The all-flash vendor bucked industry trends by growing revenue significantly last quarter despite ...
Nearly one third of cloud service providers spend more than 10% of their revenue on storage while 46% of them spend five to 10 percent of their revenue on storage, according to a survey conducted ...
Michael Dell and other Dell executives have told employees the $67 billion acquisition of EMC will go through despite reports that his group is having trouble securing financing for the deal. Dell ...
NetApp’s latest earnings report shows the vendor is still in a hole with a lot of digging to do before it returns to revenue growth. NetApp reported another quarter of declining revenue Wednesday ...
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Commvault takes a revenue leap forward
28 Jan 2016 -
Hyper-converged vendor Gridstore picks up funding for expansion
27 Jan 2016 -
Caringo adds support for Microsoft Azure to its Swarm software
- TechTarget 20 Jan 2016 -
Veeam kicks off 2016 with V9 GA
- TechTarget 18 Jan 2016 -
Backup appliance revenue up slightly
- TechTarget 23 Dec 2015 -
Tintri adds entry-level all-flash, teases analytics
08 Dec 2015 -
Pure Storage reports revenue spike in 1st earnings report since IPO
03 Dec 2015 -
Did Violin Memory just hang a ‘For Sale’ sign?
03 Dec 2015 -
Brocade ties its hopes to storage capacity, not pricing
24 Nov 2015 -
Formation Data CEO: Dell-EMC deal doesn't guarantee innovation
30 Oct 2015 -
By the way, EMC's storage revenue shrunk last quarter
13 Oct 2015 -
Dell is EMC's latest potential dance partner
08 Oct 2015 -
Flash storage and cleaning house
- Evaluator Group 29 Sep 2015 -
External storage sales down as market shifts to hyperscale and server-based storage
- TechTarget 08 Sep 2015 -
Toshiba unveils SAS, NVMe PCIe SSDs at Flash Memory Summit
13 Aug 2015 -
Pure takes first step to go public, files for IPO
12 Aug 2015 -
Box hires former EMC Syncplicity chief
- TechTarget 12 Aug 2015 -
Is Veeam’s gain causing Commvault’s pain?
29 Jul 2015 -
EMC tempers expectations, accelerates shift to emerging storage technologies
22 Jul 2015 -
SIOS launches iQ, seeks more intelligent analytics
17 Jul 2015 -
Red Hat not likely to combine Ceph, Gluster into single product
27 Jun 2015 -
PernixData plans platform proliferation
26 Jun 2015 -
HDS fully digests Pentaho
05 Jun 2015 -
Violin still searching for right notes
03 Jun 2015 -
Quantum expects to scale StorNext products, sales this year
11 May 2015 -
EMC storage revs down, reflect industry transformation
23 Apr 2015 -
SanDisk sees PCIe flash take a dive
17 Apr 2015 -
EMC: Information glut will change what storage looks like
16 Apr 2015 -
IBM says it can put 220 terabytes in the palm of your hand
- TechTarget 14 Apr 2015 -
Fibre Channel helps Nimble Storage grow revenue in Q4
28 Feb 2015 -
Dell to ship 2nd wave of XC Series hyper-converged appliances
26 Feb 2015 -
NetApp blames sales slump on budget restraints
12 Feb 2015 -
Veritas Rising
- Evaluator Group 09 Feb 2015 -
CommVault now sees a point in smaller bundles
30 Jan 2015 -
EMC to lay off workers; Tucci to stay past February
30 Jan 2015 -
How stealthy money affects technology
- Evaluator Group 27 Jan 2015 -
Box shares surged on the first day as a public company
- TechTarget 23 Jan 2015 -
EMC gives ViPR flash-related upgrade
20 Jan 2015 -
A look at access methods for open systems and mainframes
- Evaluator Group 10 Oct 2014 -
EMC's XtremIO 3.0 adds compression with disruptive upgrade for existing users
30 Sep 2014 -
Something's wrong when storage vendors pitch speeds and feeds
- Evaluator Group 11 Feb 2014 -
Dell adds 2.5-inch SAS, MLC SSDs to EqualLogic
22 Aug 2011 -
Does Nimble dedupe?
19 Jul 2010
Is Commvault back on track? The backup vendor snapped a string of four quarters of year-over-year revenue declines when it reported of $155.7 million last quarter, up 2% from the previous year. ...
Gridstore closed a $19 million funding round today with plans to substantially expand engineering and sales of its all-flash hyper-converged systems built for Microsoft Hyper-V. The round brings ...
Caringo has expanded its Swarm object storage to Microsoft Azure. The company recently said its object storage software, which already has Amazon S3 support, now is available on the Azure cloud so ...
Veeam Software has started off the year by making Veeam Availability Suite 9 generally available to customers. The software has more than 250 features, according to Veeam. While the data protection ...
Worldwide factory revenues for backup appliances grew 2.2 percent year-over-year in the third quarter this year, with revenue totaling $813.6 million, according to International Data Corp.'s ...
Virtual machine-storage specialist Tintri rounded out its all-flash product line today with an entry level version priced at $125,000 for 5.34 TB of raw capacity. The VMstore T5040 is the third ...
Pure Storage’s first earnings call since its October IPO was a rosy one on the revenue side. The all-flash array vendor’s revenue hit $131.4 million in its fiscal 2016 third quarter – a 167% ...
All-flash pioneer Violin Memory can’t sell enough all-flash arrays to make money. So its next move could be to sell itself in its entirety. After another disappointing quarter, Violin CEO Kevin ...
If the largest storage array vendors that sell Brocade’s SAN switching are getting hit with declining revenue every quarter, that’s bad news for Brocade, right? If you agree with that, then you’re ...
Dell’s pending $67 billion acquisition of EMC has sparked plenty of discussion about overlapping products. Yet despite the enormity of their potential merger, the newly fused Dell-EMC may not have ...
Almost lost in the noise around Dell’s estimated $67 billion acquisition of EMC this week was another down sales quarter for EMC storage. EMC reported preliminary revenue totals Monday on the call ...
The EMC rumor machine is in full force again today. This time it’s Dell that is reportedly interested in buying all or some of EMC. Of course, if the sources for these rumors were 100% reliable, ...
A recent discussion with a client got me thinking about precipitating events that cause IT professionals to “put their house in order” regarding the information they store. In this case, there was ...
External storage sales are shrinking. The total worldwide enterprise storage systems factory revenue grew to an $8.8 billion during the second quarter of 2015, according to IDC. However, sales are ...
Count Toshiba among the group of drive makers demonstrating new enterprise PCI Express (PCIe) and SAS SSDs at this week’s Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, California. Toshiba unveiled three ...
Pure Storage today filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in hopes of becoming the second all-flash storage array vendor to go public following Violin Memory. In its filing with the U.S. ...
Box today has hired the former CEO of EMC Syncplicity. Jeetu Patel, the former general manager of EMC Syncplicity enterprise file synchronization and sharing (EFSS) business unit, has joined the ...
Commvault’s revenue keeps sliding while data protection software rival Veeam makes steady gains. Coincidence, or is Veeam taking deals that Commvault used to win? Commvault's revenue of $139 ...
EMC executives reduced their 2015 revenue forecasts for the second time this year following a quarter of tepid growth. They also said the vendor will implement plans to cut costs by $850 million a ...
Data protection software vendor SIOS Technologies is branching out into IT analytics. The vendor this week launched SIOS iQ, an analytics platform developed for virtual machines and their ...
One petabyte-scale storage customer traveled to this week’s Red Hat Summit in Boston with dreams of Ceph and Gluster merging into a single product. He hoped Red Hat would take the best pieces of ...
PernixData executives this week disclosed three coming additions to its core FVP software, which clusters server flash and RAM to accelerate I/O and reduce latency. PernixData claims around 400 ...
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) closed its acquisition of Pentaho this week, which means Pentaho’s big data analytics technology will be showing up in HDS storage products soon. Pentaho software will be ...
The red hot all-flash array remains ice cold for Violin Memory. Violin reported revenue of $12.1 million for last quarter. That was down 33.3 percent from last year and 41 percent from last ...
Quantum’s forecast for the next year includes more StorNext and scale-out archiving products, sales and vertical markets. The sales bump has already started. Quantum last week reported its ...
EMC came up $75 million short of its projected storage revenue last quarter, according to its Wednesday earnings report. No big surprise there. EMC and other large storage vendors have struggled to ...
SanDisk became the PCIe flash market leader with its 2014 acquisition of server-side flash pioneer Fusion-io. Less than a year later, there is a lot less to that market and that is having a ...
There’s a lot of data out there, and there’s going to be even more in the future, and businesses need to figure out better ways to use and deliver it because the always-connected “information ...
IBM is working on putting 220 terabytes of storage in a palm-sized tape cartridge. The company has developed breakthrough technology that shrinks the size of bits for magnetic tape and offers ...
Nimble Storage exceeded expectations with $68.3 million in revenue in its fiscal fourth quarter, helped by a new wave of Fibre Channel-based arrays that factored into about 10% of the company’s ...
Dell plans to ship the second version of its XC Series of hyper-converged appliances next week, just four months after getting the first wave of products out the door in November. The XC Series ...
A rocky quarter with a disappointing forecast for this quarter left NetApp CEO Tom Georgens defensive about his company’s product portfolio and strategy. NetApp Wednesday reported $1.55 billion in ...
Appropriately, Symantec will call its new information management spinout Veritas Technologies Corp. The company will consist of many products from the original Veritas, which Symantec acquired in ...
For years, CommVault boasted about how it sold one application that handled all data protection and management needs. That is changing, as its tries to perk up tepid financial growth in a more ...
EMC CEO and chairman Joe Tucci indicated Thursday that he will stay on after his contract expires next month. Others at EMC won’t be given that option, as the company also said it will cut jobs to ...
By my count, around 70 storage start-up companies were acquired in the past year. That is quite a few acquisitions, although not as many as in some past years. A surge in acquisitions always leads ...
Box Inc. had an excellent coming out party as a public company today. Box priced its initial shares at $14 Thursday. Those shares today opened at $20.20 on the New York Stock Exchange and rose to ...
EMC last week quietly upgraded its ViPR software-defined storage and ScaleIO hyper-convergence software, broadening support for platforms and emerging technologies. One of the selling points of ...
The term access method is frequently used to identify types of I/O in open systems. Many who use it probably don't understand the historical context for what has been known as an access method for ...
EMC Corp. made available the 3.0 release of its XtremIO all-flash array today with new inline compression capabilities and performance improvements – but existing customers who want the software ...
I’m surprised to hear from IT people that storage vendors are still using “speeds and feeds” in their sales pitches. Salesmen for these companies talk about how fast and how big the storage systems ...
Dell revamped its EqualLogic iSCSI SAN hardware today, adding new entry-level and midrange platforms with support for 2.5-inch SAS drives and multi-level cell (MLC) solid state drives (SSDs) for ...
Nimble Storage Thursday came out of stealth with a storage system that the startup’s executives said combines primary storage with deduplication for backup in the same device. It makes sense that ...