Among the findings in this year’s Cloud Price Index, 451 Research disclosed that lowering the cost of cloud services hasn’t helped those looking to gain market share. In fact, the opposite is true: higher value services are the key to profitable growth.
This week CSC announced that its board of directors unanimously approved a plan to merge the company with the Enterprise Services segment of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The combined company would make one of the world’s largest pure-play IT services companies. To put the size in some sort of perspective it would be expected to
Continuing on with our series of reporting bad financial news from the tech industry, Nimble Storage has reported its first quarter earnings for 2017 and all is not yet lost. In fact, considering they are fending off class-action lawsuits things could have been worse for them. Nimble is reporting higher revenue, however all other indicators are down
Today Coho Data announced the release of the latest version of the software that powers their arrays, DataStream 2.7. The latest release further supports enterprise workloads as both block- and file-based workloads can be hosted on the same platform. The update also incorporates the support for OpenStack announced last month.
Today at Citrix Synergy, Nutanix announced its new solution to simplify and accelerate VDI deployments in midsized enterprises on up, the Nutanix InstantON VDI for Citrix. For a list price of $415, InstantON VDI includes Citrix XenDesktop VDI Edition, the Nutanix enterprise cloud platform and AHV with Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS) integration and 3
Today Datrium announced a new software release for its DVX system with what it is calling “Insane Mode.” Datrium is making some bold claims with this new software release stating that users can see up to a 2-fold increase in virtual server application performance. According to Datrium this will mean over 100,000 IOPS per host
Today at the IEEE International Memory Workshop in Paris, IBM Research announced that its scientists have made a breakthrough in phase-change memory (PCM). This relatively new memory technology (in the sense of how it is being used) holds much promise. However, this was the first time scientists were able to store 3 bits of data per
Today Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced that it was launching a series of new Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) solutions for SAP HANA environments. These latest UCPs are based on the new Intel XEON E5 and E7 processors and include the UCP 1000 for SAP HANA, UCP 6000 for SAP S/4HANA, UCP 6000 for SAP
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has announced that is has expanded its data compression guarantee as well as introducing a new 2x data reduction guarantee. HDS isn’t the only game in town when it comes to guarantees but they claim that they are the only vendor to offer a 100% data availability (100% availability, 100% of
The Mangstor NX-Series of all-flash arrays (AFA) are a family of appliances that are designed to bring the performance and low-latency benefits of NVMe to a shared storage environment. Shared storage of course isn't new, but being able to leverage the benefits of NVMe in a shared environment is. Conceptually, NVMe over Fabrics takes the power
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