Chris Mellor
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Nutanix asks 'staff outside of the US' to take 2 weeks 'voluntary' unpaid leave
Solidarity with their US counterparts in COVID-19 cost cutting measures → Read More
HPE fixes another SAS SSD death bug: This time, drives will conk out after 40,000 hours of operation
HPE has told customers that four kinds of solid-state drives (SSDs) in its servers and storage systems may experience failure and data loss at 40,000 hours, or 4.5 years, of operations. The IT titan said in a bulletin this month the “issue is not unique to HPE and potentially affects all customers that purchased these drives.” HPE has not identified the SSD maker, and refused to do so, saying:… → Read More
Veeam gets back together with sold-off subsidiary as it's revealed: Insight Partners owns both
Yep, same private equity cats snaffled N2WS and its former parent firm → Read More
Back up a minute: Private equity outfit coughs $5bn for Veeam
Insight Partners already chucked $0.5bn at it last year → Read More
Nutanix: There have always been losses. You know what's really fattening? Our subs
Market: We're happy with that. (Cue 20% share price boost) → Read More
'Not normal': Dell and NetApp price war puts crimp in Pure Storage revenue growth
Brexit UK and Japan 'more difficult trading environments' → Read More
Dell's new converged play PowerOne: It's a bit like VxBlock, but without all the Cisco gubbins
It's Dell all the way down with subscription payment models → Read More
Canada's OpenText buys SMB backerupper Carbonite for $1.42bn
After weeks of acquisition rumours, Canadian enterprise software pusher OpenText bit the bullet yesterday and swallowed cloud backup and storage service vendor Carbonite for a cool $1.42bn. Carbonite said in a statement that it had received a number of offers and the OpenText deal was "the best way to maximise shareholder value". The price is $23/share, a 78 per cent premium on Carbonite's stock… → Read More
It's Orphan Data in Backup Hell: No, it's not a Netflix series about storage admins...
... it's a consequence of production use of containerised apps → Read More
Nutanix lures cloudy bingers with Danish trilogy: HPE GreenLake deal, ServiceNow tie-up and ProLiant DX pact
Yep, storage firm's software pre-installed on HPE servers → Read More
Seagate, WD mull 10-platter HDDs as pitstop before HAMR, MAMR time
Conventional drives could boast 20TB capacities by 2020 → Read More
No Huawei: Micron hit by oversupply, US-China trade issues as DRAM sales sliced in half
But says customers at last chowing through memory stockpile → Read More
Intel unveils gen 2 Optane SCM, bellows: You Barlow Pass, as it unfurls roadmap
Plus: 144-layer NAND coming in 2020... and a consumer-level QLC flash drive → Read More
Western Digital: We're just about DDN with these data centre systems
IntelliFlash flogged to big data storage firm, ActiveScale on the block → Read More
Backup biz Acronis ascends to unicorndom after $147m splurge led by Goldman Sachs
Cash for acquisitions, new hires and data centre expansion → Read More
WD you like to purchase an NVMe-oF startup? Kazan! Western Dig just did
Storage types pretty excited about getting at arrays over Ethernet via NVMe-oF → Read More
Dell seasons PowerMax arrays with dash of FC-NVMe and Optane – but it's not a capacity boost
Dell EMC has injected FC-NVMe and Optane storage-class memory (SCM) into its high-end PowerMax arrays with the aim of ramping performance. The updated PowerMax specs are up to 7.5m IOPS, sub-100μs read latency and 1PB effective capacity for the 2000, and up to 15m IOPS, sub-100μs read latency, 350GB/sec and 4PB effective capacity for the 8000. This is a performance upgrade, not a capacity boost.… → Read More
Owl in a day's work: Commvault picks up software-defined type Hedvig for $225m
Commvault has said it will fork out nearly a quarter of a billion dollars to buy Hedvig, a software-defined storage startup. For the Cohesity rival, this is a $225m bet that data unification and so-called operational efficiencies will pay off. In April last year, the firm tussled with activist investor Elliot Management, and shortly thereafter tweaked its product strategy, shoehorning 20… → Read More
Holy MAMR: Western Digital's 18TB and 20TB microwave disk drives out soon
Skipping over 16TB capacity point, no volume ships until mid-2020, though → Read More
Pure Storage the latest pipes 'n' plumbing playa to slash sales forecast
Look at the troubles facing legacy vendors. We're not immune either → Read More