This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Scality reports a great 2017. Cloudistics launched its Application Marketplace. Cloudian raises over $120 million with Digital Alpha. Cisco launches 5G Now portfolio. NAKIVO previews its Backup & Replication v7.4. INFINIDAT launches code.infinidat.com community. AMD’s

VMware, Inc. reported its financial results for its fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2018. Overall the company saw a good quarter and a good fiscal year. It’s stock did somewhat better throughout the quarter seeing spike and sell off but a general increase.

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.

Nutanix Inc. reported its earnings for the second quarter of its fiscal year that ended January 31, 2018. The company saw a modest increase in its revenue from the previous quarter as well as a small increase in net loss. Overall the company’s stock improved slightly over the 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

Today at the Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, Spain, VMware Inc. announced it was extending its Internet of Things (IoT) strategy with new edge computing solutions. These new solutions are aimed around specific use cases at the edge including Asset Management and Smart Surveillance. The new solutions will feature VMware vSAN, VMware vSphere, and

Today at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018, Western Digital revealed new mobile and computing solutions aimed at maximizing performance. These products include the 400GB SanDisk Extreme UHS-I microSDXCT card (that WD is calling the world’s fastest UHS-I memory card) and new NVMe SSDs with a new NVMe storage architecture. WD will be demoing their

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

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) reported its earnings for its first fiscal quarter of 2018, that ended January 31, 2018. The company is reporting good numbers overall along with higher diluted earnings per share that it is partially attributing to the recent tax reform law. Stock performance has been trending upward this quarter with a large