All industries have companies that float up and down within them. A new company, such a Violin Memory, can shoot up to the top in a given niche within the industry, all-flash arrays, only to be facing their demise a few years later. Toshiba has been a major player in the storage arena for a

We have been covering Violin Memory for years now at StorageReview. While we reported on several of their releases and even reviewed their WFA-64 Windows Flash Array, our recent reporting has leaned more toward their financial woes. Last month Violin threw in the towel and filed for Chapter 11. It looks as though the Violin saga is

Today VMware Inc. reported both its fourth quarter earnings for 2016 as well as its full year results. VMware is one of the top players in the virtualization and cloud business mobility. Not only is VMware reporting some terrific earnings numbers, they are also announcing 7,000 customers for the Hyper-Converged, software powered infrastructure solution vSAN.

Today Panzura announced new software, hardware, and support services as part of its expansion in enterprise grade functionality. This functionality and new services are designed to meet the growing demand for hybrid cloud storage in the enterprise space. Today’s release will enhance Panzura’s primary use case of active archive, hybrid cloud NAS, and cross-site collaboration.Panzura

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content not the impact they have. Cavium will contribute the first programmable Wedge 100C Switch design to the Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation. Cisco has a handful of announcements including a new data and analytics training portfolio, all-in-one, cloud based

Today at the BETT Show in London, Dell EMC announced its latest portfolio of PCs and monitors that are designed to improve education and learning opportunities in K-12 students throughout the world. The new portfolio will consist of three new laptops that are built to withstand the day-to-day wear that is expected with students. Dell

Today Seagate Technologies reported on its financial results for the second quarter of 2017. Seagate is continuing to show some overall improvement of its stock and its earnings. Its stock has shown an upward trend in the last three months. For a company that still has major focus on spinning disks in a world where flash

Today Riverbed Technology announced that its app-defined SD-WAN solution, SteelConnect, now offers an instant, “one-click” provisioning of SD-WAN connectivity into Microsoft Azure cloud networks. Riverbed is also announcing that it has attained Microsoft Gold Cloud Platform Competency. To attain this competency means that Riverbed has demonstrated “best-in-class” ability and commitment to meet Microsoft Corp. customers’

Today Synology Inc. announced that it was launching new RackStations and expansion units. The new RackStations are the RS18017xs+ and RS4017xs+ and the new expansion units are RX2417sas and RX1217sas. The upgrade centers around delivering more processing power and higher scalability.