In this podcast we talk with Dave Tang, SVP at WDC. Dave discusses key findings from a survey completed late last year of 700 IT decision makers across the globe. We dive into why reliability is leading the decision making process, how big data and IoT are impacting storage decisions and why decades old tape

According to a new survey by 451 Research, the Voice of the Enterprise survey, IT budgets will see strong growth over the next couple of years. Spending in public clouds environments and next-generation technologies will generate this increase in IT budgets. While this may be good news for cloud providers it does mean that traditional,

Nimble Storage has been hit with some bad news regarding its stock in the past few months. While the stock hadn’t been performing great to begin with (the stock opened at $34.90 and is now trading for under $7.00), the third quarter results didn’t help. Now to add insult to injury, Nimble is being hit

Barracuda has launched its new suite of cloud services aimed at making Microsoft Office 365 more secure and operate more efficiently, Barracuda Essentials for Office 365. Barracuda Essentials for Office 365 is an easy-to-deploy and manage suite of services that are the combination of three of Barracuda’s existing products: Barracuda Email Security Service, Barracuda Cloud

IMB has released its fourth quarter earnings and it is a bit of a mixed bag. While earnings beat expectations (earning $4.84 per share on $22.06 billion in revenue versus the expectations of $4.81 a share on $22.02 billion in revenue), the company’s overall earnings per share are down roughly 17% from this same quarter

Today Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced that it was expanding its all-flash portfolio with its new Hitachi Flash Storage (HFS) A series family of all-flash arrays (AFA). The HFS A series of AFAs is designed to be a software-defined approach to infrastructure that is accelerated by flash technology. Hitachi believes that this will help customers

Today Maxta announced that it was introducing a new facet to its hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), Application-Defined Storage. Maxta states that this will allow users to maximize the promise of hyper-convergence by allowing them to optimize their applications. Application-Defined Storage comes with the latest release of the Maxta Storage Platform (MxSP) and MaxDeploy appliances.

Today Actifio released the new version of its front end software, Actifio Global Manager (AGM). This new version of software is intended to make it faster and easier to automate data management, access, and protection across the hybrid cloud. 

Western Digital Corporation has once again run its global survey of CIOs and IT decision makers, this being its second annual. What was found this year is that cost is no longer the major consideration when it comes to data storage purchases. As organizations are mining their data more and more to gain insight, reliability