Breaking the cycle of bad financial stories we’ve ran such as Nimble Storage and Violin Memory missing expectations in their third quarter reports, Pure Storage is reporting record revenue. For their third quarter Pure reported revenue of $131.4 million up from $49.2 million a year ago or up 167% year to year. This number also comes in higher than analysts expected,
Quantum has announced StorNext 5.3, the latest version of the company’s scale-out storage platform comprised of a wide range of advanced data management capabilities optimized for demanding workflows. Not only does it power Quantum’s new Xcellis high-performance workflow storage solution, Artico NAS archive appliance, and the company’s new Q-Cloud Vault service, version 5.3 also incorporates end-to-end
Following Nimble Storage’s piece last week there is more bad news for startups that have gone public. Violin Memory also missed third quarter earnings and watched its stock sink as a result. Violin’s revenue not only fell short of expectations, it was also lower than it was in the same quarter last year. The revenue was $12.5
Violin Memory Inc. has announced that is adding two new arrays to its Flash Storage Platform (FSP) 7000 series, the FSP 7600 and the FSP 7250. Different workloads demand a vast range of performance and capacity demands. Up until now Violin only offered a few configurations in its FSP 7000 series. Now they offer another
ExaGrid has announced that it is partnering with Zerto combining the two companies' technologies in order to deliver complementary solutions. The companies state that they can jointly offer continuous data protection along with long-term archiving that will greatly improving performance and cost efficiency in IT datacenters. This will give joint customers a cost-effective, offsite, disk-based
Today Western Digital announced that it is shipping the world’s first 10TB perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) HDD, the HGST Ultrastar He10. Though a 10TB drive was announced earlier this year it was an SMR drive. The He10 is drop in ready and currently has the highest capacity, lowest power consumption per TB, and highest reliability rating on the
Today Permabit Technology Corporation released the latest version of Albireo Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO), version 5.2. The latest release will deliver increased efficiency and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 support.
At Autodesk University today in Las Vegas, Lenovo announced a new set of workstations including the ThinkPad P40 Yoga. The ThinkPad P40 Yoga is the first workstation that allows sketching directly onto the screen through a stylus similar to a tablet. Lenovo states that this ability gives creative professionals will be able to sketch their
Today Seagate Technology and Newisys, a division of Sanmina Corporation, announced that they have broken the 1TB/s threshold in a single rack. The two companies announced that 21 Newisys NSS-2601 with dual NSS-HWxEA Storage Server Modules deployed with Seagate’s newest SAS 1200.2 SSD drives can be combined in a single 42U rack to achieve block
HPE announced today a new composable infrastructure, HPE Synergy. This new platform will run both traditional and cloud native applications by leveraging fluid resource pools, software defined intelligence, and a unified API. HPE Synergy will help enterprises tackle new services and markets while reducing overprovisioning and lower costs.
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