Dell EMC wears hyperconverged clothes in multi-cloud race
Parent Dell Technologies has child Dell EMC singing off a multi-cloud and hyperconverged songsheet at sibling VMware’s Glitter Gulch VMworld event. The two main product families featured are the Data...
View ArticleCock of the X86 systems walk, Dell is killing it
Dell has cemented its position as the world’s biggest IT hardware vendor, chalking up significant gains in market share for Q2 and growing revenues 18 per cent on the year to $22.94bn. But when will...
View ArticleTwo-horse HCI race with graphical clarity
Dell Technologies and Nutanix, the leaders of the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) appliance market, are increasing their dominance, while their competitors in the following pack look to be...
View ArticleNames, Faces and Storage Places
Just three moves for you in this edition of Storage People moves. Let’s begin with Guy Churchward, who has become executive chairman at Datera, just two months after joining the startup’s board....
View ArticleVMware rules HCI market (true)
Our thanks to VMware VP Lee Caswell who has published some extracts of a recent 451 Research survey of hyperconverged system vendor installed system market share. Look at the chart below and you can...
View ArticleBless. It’s VMware and Dell EMC’s first jointly engineered hybrid cloud...
VMware’s Cloud Foundation hybrid cloud stack has hit version 3.7 and is available from April as a component of a pre-built private cloud appliance running on Dell EMC VxRail hyperconverged...
View ArticleVMware accelerates HCI growth, Nutanix stumbles, Cisco declines
Hyperconverged infrastructure supplier revenue tracking by Wells Fargo analyst shows VMware VSAN Ready Nodes pulling away from Nutanix. Aaron Rakers, a senior analyst at Wells Fargo, has produced this...
View ArticleVxRail gets a new dimension – VMware Cloud
Dell Technologies World Dell Technologies Cloud – the much signalled Project Dimension that puts VMware Cloud on on-premises kit, has landed at Dell Technologies World. Dell EMC’s VxRail hyperconverged...
View ArticleDell double-dates with Azure
Dell Technologies World Dell introduced Microsoft, its hot new date in the cloud, at Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas today. The company is extending VMware Cloud to support Azure as well as AWS...
View ArticleNutanix ‘leads HCI software market’
Nutanix leads the hyperconverged infrastructure software market, according to Gartner research seen by Blocks & Files. This contrasts with IDC numbers, released last month, which showed VMware and...
View ArticleVeritas plays nicely with VMware in the cloud
Data protection stalwart Veritas has ported the Enterprise Data Services Platform (EDSP) for VMware onto the AWS, Azure and Google clouds. For data protection vendors, the capability to backup to and...
View ArticleVMware Cloud on Dell EMC is ready for those private moments
Dell Technologies has announced VMware Cloud on Dell EMC (VCDE), a grandly-titled data centre as a service. This is part of its Dell Technologies Cloud, whereby’Dell on-premises infrastructure operate...
View ArticleDell earnings show it pulling away from the competition
Dell Technologies pulled in £23.4bn revenues in the second fiscal 2020 quarter, up 2 per cent, and eked a massive $4.5bn profit, thanks to an income tax provision. In a statement Jeff Clarke, Dell...
View ArticleVMware’s Project Magna applies machine learning to automate the data centre
VMware is developing a cloud service to monitor software in customer deployments and tune it automatically to improve performance. This is Project Magna and its first target is vSAN in hyperconverged...
View ArticleDell pumps up storage revs in Q3
Storage is the bright star in Dell’s Infrastructure Solutions Group’s revenues for its third fiscal 2020 quarter, growing while server revenues fall. Both VxRail hyperconverged systems and vSAN license...
View ArticleGartner promotes VMware to HCI magic quadrant ‘visionary’ leader
Gartner’s latest hyperconverged infrastructure magic quadrant (MQ) ranks VMware alongside Nutanix as the two leading suppliers. In the November 2018 edition VMware lagged Nutanix on the visionary axis...
View ArticleAWS Outposts: You can have any hybrid cloud you want…as long as it is Amazon
AWS Outposts is a converged infrastructure rack, announced at re:Invent in Las Vegas this week. In effect this is Amazon’s public cloud in a box, delivering an all-AWS hybrid computing environment...
View ArticleHyperconverged stretching lead over converged as VMware extends lead over...
A wide gap has opened up between hyperconverged system sales and converged infrastructure (CI) in IDCs latest Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker, as VMware stretches out its led over Nutanix...
View ArticleVMware to use MinIO object storage in Kubernetes embrace
VMware looks likely to provision storage to Kubernetes Pods using MinIO open source object storage, if its own slide is to be believed. But first some background. VMware is embracing Kubernetes...
View ArticlePortworx takes Kubernetes magic carpet ride into enterprise data centres
Portworx, a venture-backed startup that specialises in storage for container deployments, is banking on enterprises adopting Kubernetes to orchestrate all their apps – not just containerised versions....
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