Big Data
Hitachi Vantara expands hyperscaler support with Azure, Google relationships
An initial deal with Google was followed up by one with Azure, although many of the strategies and principles of both agreements are similar.
Storage
Artificial Intelligence
Hitachi Vantara introduces Hitachi EverFlex AI Data Hub as a Service
The new as a service offering combines the Vantara Virtual Storage Platform One with technology from Cisco and software firm Zetaris to provide customers with smarter AI.
Storage
Nexsan adds new Unity NV4000 for distributed and small enterprises
Nexsan upgrades the low end of its unified storage portfolio with the Unity NV4000, which is aimed at small and medium enterprises as well as distributed enterprises, and which also adds some new software capabilities.
Cloud
HPE beefs up unified private cloud portfolio portfolio powered by HPE Morpheus Software.
HPE is redefining the full-stack private cloud through HPE Private Cloud Business Edition with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, and made new storage announcements and guarantees as well.
Artificial Intelligence
Channel strategy helps drive strong growth of cloud storage company Backblaze
Backblaze’s CEO goes beyond the numbers in the company’s latest financial report to examine how the channel plays a key part in their Go-to-Market strategy.
Artificial Intelligence
Hitachi Vantara, Cisco and Red Hat announce new co-engineered solution
Hitachi Vantara has announced a new co-engineered solution with Cisco with Red Hat OpenShift, a co-engineered joint solution leading hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes, which combines Cisco’s compute and networking systems with Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) arrays using Red Hat OpenShift container management tools.
Artificial Intelligence
Hybrid cloud infrastructure vendor Hitachi Vantara launches new partnership with Virtana and its platform suite
Hitachi Vantara and Virtana have announced a new collaboration with AI-powered monitoring and observability vendor Virtana, which will integrate Virtana’s suite with the Hitachi Vantara EverFlex infrastructure-as-a-service offering.
Cloud
Cloud storage provider Backblaze ramps up Canadian presence with new Opti9 partnership
Backblaze will leverage the new partnership to open its first data region in Canada, which will be based in Toronto, service the whole country, and become available in the first quarter of 2025.
Green
Hitachi Vantara further expands Virtual Storage Platform One portfolio with block storage component
Hitachi Vantara adds another component to its newish hybrid cloud platform, with yet another on the way.
Artificial Intelligence
New strategic partnership with Nutanix highlights Dell channel initiatives
The extended partnership with Nutanix, which Dell will formally announce at a later date, was accompanied in Dell’s new channel related moves by other initiatives like a new Dell AI Partner Focused Network, and the addition of client to server and storage for partner of record status.
Green
Hitachi Vantara launches Virtual Storage Platform One hybrid cloud platform
In addition to the Virtual Storage Platform One launch, Hitachi Vantara has announced its inaugural Sustainability Report.
Artificial Intelligence
VAST Data launches key new partnerships with NVIDIA and Super Micro
Both partnerships expand AI capabilities by combining VAST’s software with NVIDIA and Super Micro’s hardware, with more such partnerships on the way.
Backup
Startup Object First pleased with momentum for Veeam-focused backup appliance
Object First’s Ootbi now has over 80 installations for Veeam environments, with six of them worth over $100,000, as they stress how their storage immutability and Zero Trust capabilities are effective weapons against ransomware.
Storage
VMware end to free ESXi opens up new options from spurned customers and partners
While these major changes are not good news for developers and SMBs, there are still options, from the cloud to smaller hypervisor vendors like Proxmox, which has an open source hypervisor that led storage vendor 45Drives to partner with them.
Backup
Nexsan adds high end unified storage Unity NV6000 to data protection offerings
Back on its own, following the bankruptcy of former parent company StorCentric last year, Nexsan adds a new high-end model with immutable backups and S3 object locking.
Storage
Qumulo enhances elasticity, performance and audibility with rearchitected Scale Anywhere platform
The new architecture disaggregates the storage from the compute, and is a key factor in both the much lower pricing and the greatly increased scalability.
Partnerships
NetApp announces integration with the VMware Sovereign Cloud, and simplified data management for modern virtualized applications
The Sovereign Cloud integration brings the VMware compliance technology to enterprise storage, while the modernization of APIs between ONTAP and VMware vSphere improves the scalability and effectiveness of VMware’s VVols architecture.
Artificial Intelligence
NetApp introduces ASA C-Series family with capacity flash for top performance at near disk cost
Other enhancements to the NetApp storage portfolio include enhancements to NetApp Keystone Storage-as-a-Service.
Artificial Intelligence
NetApp to launch new partner hub
The digital portal allows partners to track deals and register opportunities, and while the previous program has something similar, NetApp’s channel chief says that this one is better.
Big Data
NetApp CEO Kurian lays out vision at return of live NetApp INSIGHT event
George Kurian explained NetApp’s broad strategy through which their customers can turn disruption into opportunity, through consolidating data management, treating data like the key product it is, and developing a modern data architecture.