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HPE Unveils SimpliVity 380 Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance, Expects To Ship By Early May

The appliance, combining HPE's ProLiant DL380 server with SimpliVity's OmniStack software and proprietary hardware card, will be sold alongside HPE's legacy HC 380 system, but the two will eventually be combined.
Channel Partners Struggling With Crippling SSD Shortage See Little Chance Of Relief In 2017

Solution providers and system builders told CRN that shortages of both enterprise and client SSDs are delaying their product shipments and costing them business.
Reduxio Closes In On New $32M In Funding, With The Lead Investor Tied Closely To Amazon

The company, which specializes in hybrid flash and disk storage, wants to expand the definition of "hybrid" to include the cloud, and may look toward its top investor, a venture capital firm, for a potential link with AWS.
Partners Cheer Lenovo's DataCore Deal, Ponder Its Long-Term Storage Strategy

Lenovo, which has seen HPE buy its storage partners SimpliVity and Nimble Storage, signed with DataCore to develop a new software-defined storage appliance. Partners say Lenovo needs a long-term storage strategy to go deeper into the data center.
5 Eye-Popping Facts About Dell EMC's Assault On The All-Flash Market

Dell EMC storage chief Jeff Boudreau says the company will be putting distance between itself and other all-flash market players in the near future.
Lenovo ThinkAgile For Microsoft Azure Stack: 5 Key Points For Partners

Lenovo's new ThinkAgile For Microsoft Azure Stack is a convergence appliance designed to give customers the convenience of public cloud with the control of on-premise offerings. Here are five key facts partners need to know.
CRN Exclusive: NetApp's Lipsin On Hyper-Converged Plans And Navigating The Cisco Relationship

Bill Lipsin said that NetApp plans to bring offer a unique take on hyper-converged infrastructure, one that will work in conjunction with its FlexPod converged infrastructure to offer its channel partners a host of new services and consulting opportunities.
Hedvig Closes $21.5M Funding Round, HPE Invests In The Software-Defined Storage Startup

Hedvig hopes HPE's equity stake, and the fact that HPE appointed one of its top storage executives as a technical advisor, leads to new opportunities to work with that company and its channel.
Lenovo's Storage Strategy Takes 'Another Dart' From HPE's Nimble Acquisition

HPE's prospective $1 billion acquisition of Nimble Storage effectively ends Lenovo's relationship with the flash technology startup and leaves the data center newcomer without a key partner.
Excelero Technology Pools NVMe In Multiple Servers For High Performance Block Storage

Excelero's NVMesh 1.1 aims at giving large scale data center operators the storage performance and scalability found in proprietary storage systems like those built by hyperscalers like Google, Amazon and Microsoft.
9 Things Partners Need To Know About HPE's $1B Acquisition Of Nimble Storage

CRN analyzes HPE's planned $1 billion acquisition of Nimble Storage, which will bring HPE a couple of unique technologies, some overlapping storage arrays, and strategic relationships with competitors that HPE will likely want to exit.
Tech 10: Crossing The Chasm From Consumer Storage To Business

CRN looks at 10 products that combine the ease of use expected in consumer storage devices with the robust reliability and functionality demanded of business-class storage devices.
Partners: HPE's $1 Billion Nimble Storage Acquisition Set To Reshape All-Flash Market, Force Strategic Changes For Competitors

The acquisition of Nimble is HPE's fourth acquisition in the past month, as HPE continues to scoop up disruptive technologies in an effort to boost its leadership in the hybrid cloud market.
HPE To Strengthen Its Flash Storage Lineup With $1 Billion Acquisition Of Nimble

Acquiring Nimble Storage will expand HPE's storge system offerings for small and midsize customers and strengthen its competitive stance against Dell EMC, NetApp and Pure Storage.
CRN Exclusive: NetApp's David Wright On SolidFire And Building A New Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

After NetApp CEO George Kurian surprise the storage industry by announcing plans to enter the hyper-converged infrastructure market, SolidFire's founder David Wright fleshes out the details in a wide-ranging conversation with CRN.
Nutanix Uses Q2 Financial Call To Discuss Dell EMC Relationship, HPE's SimpliVity Buy, Future Direction

Revenue rose strongly in the quarter while losses deepened, but Nutanix executive are confident they have the right strategy to ride out the competition and accelerate market traction.
Dell EMC's Goulden And Burton Discuss Software- Vs. Hardware-Defined Storage, Overlapping Storage Lines, And The Future Of Cisco In VxBlock

Dell EMC's Jeremy Burton and David Goulden use this half of a two-part interview to discuss some key technology issues the company faces in a fast-changing storage industry embracing flash and software-defined storage.
Veeam Intros First Native Snapshot For Cisco HyperFlex

The new offering allows partners to use Veeam's data protection software to do efficient direct snapshots of data on Cisco HyperFlex hyper-converged infrastructure deployments rather than work through production virtual machines.
Pure Storage CEO Sees $1B In Sales Next Fiscal Year

Four of Pure Storage's top executives used the fiscal year 2017 earnings call to look forward at new technologies such as NVMe and synchronous replication and to make the case that the company's new FlashBlade unstructured data array can beat Isilon and NetApp.
CRN Exclusive: Lenovo Channel Chief Kinlaw On New Data Center Tier Structure And The PC Battle With Dell, HP Inc.

Lenovo Channel Chief Sammy Kinlaw is organizing Lenovo's Data Center Group partners into tiers for the first time with an eye toward more clearly incentivizing partners to push Lenovo data center solutions in the face of heavy competition from Dell EMC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

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CRN Storage News

HPE Unveils SimpliVity 380 Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance, Expects To Ship By Early May

Channel Partners Struggling With Crippling SSD Shortage See Little Chance Of Relief In 2017

Reduxio Closes In On New $32M In Funding, With The Lead Investor Tied Closely To Amazon

Partners Cheer Lenovo's DataCore Deal, Ponder Its Long-Term Storage Strategy

5 Eye-Popping Facts About Dell EMC's Assault On The All-Flash Market

Lenovo ThinkAgile For Microsoft Azure Stack: 5 Key Points For Partners

CRN Exclusive: NetApp's Lipsin On Hyper-Converged Plans And Navigating The Cisco Relationship

Hedvig Closes $21.5M Funding Round, HPE Invests In The Software-Defined Storage Startup

Lenovo's Storage Strategy Takes 'Another Dart' From HPE's Nimble Acquisition

Excelero Technology Pools NVMe In Multiple Servers For High Performance Block Storage

9 Things Partners Need To Know About HPE's $1B Acquisition Of Nimble Storage

Tech 10: Crossing The Chasm From Consumer Storage To Business

Partners: HPE's $1 Billion Nimble Storage Acquisition Set To Reshape All-Flash Market, Force Strategic Changes For Competitors

HPE To Strengthen Its Flash Storage Lineup With $1 Billion Acquisition Of Nimble

CRN Exclusive: NetApp's David Wright On SolidFire And Building A New Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Nutanix Uses Q2 Financial Call To Discuss Dell EMC Relationship, HPE's SimpliVity Buy, Future Direction

Dell EMC's Goulden And Burton Discuss Software- Vs. Hardware-Defined Storage, Overlapping Storage Lines, And The Future Of Cisco In VxBlock

Veeam Intros First Native Snapshot For Cisco HyperFlex

Pure Storage CEO Sees $1B In Sales Next Fiscal Year

CRN Exclusive: Lenovo Channel Chief Kinlaw On New Data Center Tier Structure And The PC Battle With Dell, HP Inc.

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