CRN Storage News

HPE is stepping up its autonomous data center march with a plan to bring its InfoSight predictive analytics software to SimpliVity, ProLiant, Synergy and even GreenLake.

Rather than focus on storage services like RAID or deduplication, the DriveScale SCI for Flash focuses on performance for real-time transaction applications like Cassandra NoSQL databases or Hadoop big data.

Rubrik wants to make managing data on legacy infrastructures and on modern clouds the same with its Alta 4.2 release.

Cohesity President Rob Salmon says the new round will carry the hyper-converged data protection company far into the future and help expand its technology and global presence.

Dell's storage business "gained more than 5.8 percentage points of share year-over-year in the first calendar quarter of 2018. That's a really big deal," said Jeff Clarke, Dell EMC vice chairman of products and operations, in a blog post today.

Hitachi Vantara is using upgraded hardware with its Pentaho business intelligence software and new SAP HANA and other certifications to better manage data in such applications as Cloudera Hadoop clusters and MongoDB databases.

NetApp channel partners, and NetApp itself, agree that with the reorganization, the company has less of a need for an overall CTO, with partners saying the three new business units, each with their own release cadence, make for more agile development.