Today Micron Technology Inc. announced its second quarter earnings for its fiscal year that ended on March 1, 2018. Overall the company had a very good quarter reporting good numbers across the board. Their stock got dinged a bit getting wrapped up in the overall sink that hit the market this afternoon, however, it has

At IBM Think 2018 this year in Las Vegas, the company announced new Cloud Object Storage services. These new services address issues around migrating to the cloud and moving large files on the cloud within a reasonable timeframe. The three main services announced today center around high-speed transfers, data analytics, and archive capabilities.

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Imanis raises $13.5 million in funding. SonicWall releases its 2018 Cyber Threat Report. Kaminario and Commvault partner on automated operational backup and recovery. MapR extends data fabric for Kubernetes. Cloud Constellation Corporation and Wasabi announce

Today VMware, Inc. announced that it has expanded its portfolio of cloud services to better serve all the needs of its customers. The company is also announcing that VMware Cloud on AWS is expanding to Europe. And VMware is expanding its partner programs for VMware cloud on AWS.

Pure Storage reported its fourth quarter earnings and full fiscal year for 2018 that ended on January 31, 2018. The company is claiming yet another record quarter and over $1 billion in revenue for the year. Pure’s stock has continued a fairly steady climb over the last quarter.

Today Spectra Logic introduced two new tape library products, expanding its existing family of automated tape storage solutions. These new solutions include a highly scalable, modular and affordable tape library that enables users to start with a single drive and scale up as needed, the Spectra Stack, and a more cost-effective, entry-level version of the

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Virtual Instruments rebrands Load DynamiX as WorkloadWisdom. Dell EMC announces availability of its Proven Professional Certifications. Pivot3 expands partnerships. Cisco expands its automation portfolio. Rubrik approaches $300 Million global bookings run rate. Flexxible IT launches

Microsoft and data storage/cloud computing company, Compuverde, have announced a mutual license agreement that will enable access to Microsoft’s Server Message Block (SMB) file transport technology for Compuverde’s software-defined storage (SDS) solution. This partnership is specifically meant to address the need for a comprehensive network file sharing protocol for enterprises as they continue to migrate

Today Caringo, Inc. announced enhancements to both its Swarm Scale-Out Hybrid Storage, now in version 9.5, and SwarmNFS. The 9.5 release of Swarm increases interoperability between it and SwarmNFS 2.0 that in turn improves overall performance. Caringo will be exhibiting the new capabilities of Swarm 9.5 and SwarmNFS 2.0 at the JB&A pre-NAB Technology event