Storage

DDN Plans To Acquire IntelliFlash, Formerly Known As Tegile, From Western Digital

by Joseph F. Kovar

DataDirect Networks, which also recently acquired Tintri, Nexenta and the Lustre file system, is continuing its acquisition spree and looking to bring together a full range of storage capabilities that work together to serve customer requirements.

Pure Storage CEO Giancarlo: Storage Industry Disruption Only Just Starting

by Joseph F. Kovar

Giancarlo says that while Pure Storage has lead the industry in disrupting how data is stored and managed, that disruption is only getting started as the company plans to lead the way in turning everything about data into a service.

Pure Storage Embraces Multi-Cloud With New AWS, Azure Offerings

by Joseph F. Kovar

The company's Cloud Block Store for AWS, which allows its FlashArray Purity storage operating to run in the cloud to provide common storage management across on-premises and cloud environments, is now available.

Pure Storage Expands Artificial Intelligence Capabilities

by Joseph F. Kovar

The company's new AI Data Hub, working in conjunction with a newly expanded capacity point for its FlashBlade all-flash storage array for file and object storage, targets customers looking for a simple path for prepping and moving data for AI applications.

Commvault To Acquire Hedvig In $225M Deal, Speeding Up Software-Defined Storage Vision

by Joseph F. Kovar

With the acquisition, Commvault, which has focused primarily on data protection and management, gains new capabilities in primary heterogeneous environments, including on-premises and cloud, thanks to the Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform.

Hurricane Dorian Casts Shadow Over Sunshine State Solution Providers

by O’Ryan Johnson

‘The word of the day for all of our clients is backup, backup, backup,” said Michael Goldstein, with LAN Infotech, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based solution provider.

Nutanix Claims Success In Transition From Hardware Sales To Software Subscription

by Joseph F. Kovar

Hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer Nutanix for the first time provided financial guidance with a focus on software billing and subscriptions, and said it wants to go deeper with key channel partners on helping customers work with the cloud.

Pure Storage: Innovation, Channel Partners Key To 28 Percent Revenue Growth Year Over Year

by Joseph F. Kovar

‘We are now setting a bold new path for Pure for our second decade, which will deliver the next set of 10X breakthroughs. Our goal is to take the fragmented and antiquated data storage environment and re-create it into a unified, automated and multi-cloud data experience,’ said Chairman and CEO Charles Giancarlo on the company’s second fiscal quarter 2020 earnings call.

NetApp Bids Adieu To Two More Top Executives

by Joseph F. Kovar

Thomas Stanley and Joel Reich have left NetApp, with the retirement of Reich giving NetApp an opportunity to bring its storage-focused and cloud-focused business units together under a single executive, Brad Anderson.

5 Companies That Came To Win This Week

by Rick Whiting

For the week ending Aug. 16, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their 'A' game to the channel.

NetApp Financials Come In Better Than Company’s Expectation

by Joseph F. Kovar

In a preliminary report two weeks ago, NetApp warned of a dramatic fall in revenue and earnings for the quarter. The final results, however, were not nearly as bad as expected.

NVMe-oF Tech Startup Pavilion Data Bags $25M Funding

by Joseph F. Kovar

The new funding is slated to help bring Pavilion Data's NVMe over Fabric technology, based on its Hyperparallel platform that allows both high storage performance and fast drive rebuilds, reach a wider range of channel partners and customers.

Axcient Increases Performance, Lowers Cost Of Cloud Data Protection

by Joseph F. Kovar

As part of a simplification of SKUs, Axcient is now offering unlimited storage capacity as a way to make it easier for MSPs to order and pay for storage capacity without worrying about how much they need, Angus Robertson, Axcient’s chief revenue officer, tells CRN.

3 Reasons Why NetApp CEO George Kurian Expects A Revenue Shortfall (And 5 Ways He’ll Turn It Around)

by Joseph F. Kovar

Macroeconomic factors probably accounted for two-thirds of the expected shortfall, Kurian says, and pricing or competitive pressures were not a factor.