IBM Flat Despite Cloud Gains, HPE Declares Dividend
In a financial earnings season like none before, two of the world’s largest enterprise IT infrastructure vendors appear headed in opposite directions. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) declared a ...Full Article
Pivot3 Adds Dynamic Provisioning With NextGen Deal
The convergence of the hyper-convergers continues with infrastructure specialist Pivot3's deal to acquire flash array startup NexGen Storage Inc. Privately held NexGen, Louisville, Colo., was spun out a year ...Full Article
Storage Consolidation Quickens With NetApp-SolidFire Deal
The consolidation of the storage sector gained momentum at the end of 2015 with NetApp Inc.'s deal to acquire all-flash startup SolidFire for $870 million in cash. The deal ...Full Article
Hybrid Storage Seen as Safer Bet For Virtual Workloads
Akin to their cloud deployments, enterprises are hedging their bets on storage by adopting a mix of storage options for virtualized infrastructure in datacenters. Hence, a new vendor survey ...Full Article
Scale, Flexibility Place New Demands on Databases
In a new research report, Gartner advises clients to consider the “avant-garde” of new relational databases from vendors like MemSQL, NuoDB, and VoltDB when projects call for large amounts ...Full Article
Netlist, Samsung Partner on Memory Channel Storage
Analytics and other data intensive applications continue to drive new enterprise memory and storage approaches along with device manufacturing partnerships needed to scale production of emerging memory channel storage ...Full Article
Survey: HPC Storage Sector is Booming
Nearly one-third of storage systems spanning storage area networks to cloud platforms reached 1 petabyte or greater capacity in 2015, according to a user census that also projects more ...Full Article
DDN’s Bouzari on the Spread of Advanced Scale Computing into the Enterprise, and the Object-based ‘Connected Society’ of the Future
The entire HPC world – from traditional HPC research sites to advanced scale computing in the enterprise – is at a crossroads. Then again, has it ever not been? ...Full Article
All-Flash Startup Leverages QoS as a ‘Differentiator’
With all-flash arrays making inroads into enterprise storage infrastructure, the growing list of vendors of PCIe flash arrays are looking for ways to differentiate themselves while persuading potential customers ...Full Article
Sinclair Oil Taps Qumulo Storage
The oil and gas sector is slumping, cutting back on exploration and drilling as energy prices continue to slump. Perhaps based on the strategy that it's best to invest ...Full Article
