Storage

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.

HPE Plans To Tie MapR With BlueData, Other Platforms In Analytics Play

by Joseph F. Kovar

HPE plans to integrate MapR with other parts of its business, particularly its BlueData container platform, as a way to improve its artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics capabilities.

HPE Makes AI, Analytics Play With MapR Acquisition

by Joseph F. Kovar

MapR's assets are slated to be combined with those of other parts of HPE's data analytics capabilities to provide a wider platform for edge-to-cloud artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics.

NetApp Shares Plunge After Lower Q1'20 Revenue, Earnings Outlook

by Joseph F. Kovar

NetApp says it expects a 17-percent drop in revenue compared to previously announced expectations, with GAAP income also falling by over 50 percent.

Amazon Buys Flash Storage Startup E8 Storage For AWS: Report

by Mark Haranas

E8 Storage provides flash storage with a rack-scale architecture for the enterprise and software-defined cloud, delivering storage performance for half the cost of existing storage products by using only off-the-shelf hardware.

The Future According To Michael Dell

by Mark Haranas

Michael Dell has always been one step ahead of the biggest technology transitions, using that incredible foresight to build a $91 billion infrastructure powerhouse.

StorageCraft Boosts Partner Incentives In Midmarket Storage Blitz

by Joseph F. Kovar

Solution providers who sell OneXafe converged appliances to five or more customers who are new to StorageCraft in a quarter are eligible for a "new logo" rebate of up to $100,000.

Intel Partner Connection: Intel Optane- Powering a Storage Revolution

by Katie Bavoso

The Data Revolution has arrived. Your storage solutions will likely slow down soon, if they haven’t already. Intel Optane lets you access data faster than ever.