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• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  HCI market grows as storage, servers shrink

  Dell EMC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise say their storage and server revenues declined sharply last quarter, while hyper-converged infrastructure sales keep growing.

• February 12, 2020 12 Feb'20

  Nutanix Karbon upgrade focuses on non-Kubernetes experts

  Nutanix aims Karbon at 'mere mortals' who want to run Kubernetes in on-premises data centers, but it faces plenty of competitors preparing for containers that need persistent storage.

• January 27, 2020 27 Jan'20

  StorMagic SvSAN helps Sheetz hyper-converge at the edge

  Retail chain Sheetz simplified its technology on the edge with StorMagic hyper-converged infrastructure software, reducing seven devices at each site to two servers running SvSAN.

• December 12, 2019 12 Dec'19

  Pivot3, Scale Computing HCI appliances zoom in on AI, edge

  Pivot3 Acuity automates data protection for self-healing node rebuilds. New Scale Computing HE150 HCI systems combine M.2 NVMe SSD, Scale networking software and Intel mini-PCs.

• December 03, 2019 03 Dec'19

  HCI storage adoption rises as array sales slip

  Dell goes against the grain by increasing storage sales, but much of its gains came from hyper-converged and data protection products rather than traditional primary storage arrays.

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• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  Dell EMC PowerOne, On Demand add cloud-like pricing

  Dell EMC expands storage-as-a-service pricing, launches PowerOne converged stack for IT users looking for the "Holy Grail" of cloud pricing and on-premises management.

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  Dell EMC upgrades VxRail appliances for AI, SAP HANA

  As hyperconverged infrastructure use cases expand, Dell EMC adds analytics, flash and network management to VxRail platform built on PowerEdge servers.

• October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19

  HPE brings InfoSight AI to SimpliVity HCI

  HPE brings technologies from two 2017 acquisitions -- predictive analytics and hyper-convergences -- together with InfoSight on SimpliVity in hopes of giving SimpliVity a sales jolt.

• October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19

  Steel company mines value with Scale Computing HC3 cluster

  Harrison Steel Castings outgrew its converged system and swapped it out for Scale Computing HC3 hyper-converged infrastructure, which uses open source KVM virtualization.

• September 04, 2019 04 Sep'19

  VMware vSAN HCI: Complete stack or 'vaporware'?

  VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger says vSAN is crushing Nutanix, while Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey says VMware sells 'vaporware' -- but users say they like the integrated stack for HCI.

• August 28, 2019 28 Aug'19

  VMware vSAN HCI users share cloud strategies, battle scars

  Hyper-converged infrastructure has meant change to IT organizations, and VMware vSAN customers consider evolving their cloud plans in an age of hybrid and multi-cloud options.

• August 13, 2019 13 Aug'19

  Scale Computing HC3 gaining an enterprise foothold, CEO says

  Scale Computing founder and CEO Jeff Ready claims demand for HC3 is pulling the vendor into more enterprise use cases as edge-created data prompts companies to consolidate IT.

• August 12, 2019 12 Aug'19

  Composable architecture extends the reach of disaggregation

  In composable architecture, IT components are broken apart and reassembled for specific applications. They can provide more flexibility than converged or hyper-converged systems.

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  Beer maker brews up cloud alternative with Dell EMC VxRail

  With breweries in Colorado and North Carolina, New Belgium Brewing Co. moved shared production apps from cloud to local cluster of Dell EMC hyper-converged infrastructure.

• July 17, 2019 17 Jul'19

  VMware vSAN HCI multi-cloud setup keeps ambulance airbound

  Angel MedFlight runs a multi-cloud setup, using a customer-built app and hyper-converged infrastructure built on VMware vSAN software and HPE ProLiant servers.

• June 20, 2019 20 Jun'19

  HPE SimpliVity gets new features, competition

  HPE exec says vendor's HCI strategy is 'SimpliVity, SimpliVity, SimpliVity' -- but don't forget HPE's competitive Nutanix and Nimble Storage dHCI products.

• June 18, 2019 18 Jun'19

  HPE unveils Nimble dHCI, InfoSight on SimpliVity HCI

  Is disaggregated HCI a thing? Hewlett Packard Enterprise says yes, with its new Nimble Storage-ProLiant server combo that looks more like converged infrastructure than hyper-converged.

• June 17, 2019 17 Jun'19

  Scale Computing HC3 hyper-converged hardware gets edgy

  Scale Computing 1U edge nodes allow easy deployment by retailers in multiple sites that lack on-site IT. The Scale Computing storage layer removes the need for RAID-based data protection in the box.

• June 03, 2019 03 Jun'19

  HCI market: Dell and VMware gain, as Nutanix stumbles

  HCI pioneer Nutanix's revenue slid last quarter, as it goes through a business transition and greater competition from Dell appliances and VMware HCI software.

• June 03, 2019 03 Jun'19

  New Toshiba M.2 SSD targets composable infrastructure

  Toshiba takes aim at composable infrastructures, data centers and high-end workstations with new low-power, small-form-factor 2 TB M.2 SSD that uses dense 96-layer 3D NAND flash.

• May 31, 2019 31 May'19

  HiveIO releases Hive Fabric virtualization framework update

  Hive Fabric 7.3 has four main updates. New features enable admins to install GPUs, control acceleration, add multiple defined networks and manage server memory.

• May 13, 2019 13 May'19

  Nutanix CEO: We'd love to replace VMware as Switzerland

  Nutanix can benefit if Dell alienates VMware's other partners by abandoning its 'Switzerland of computing' strategy, according to the HCI vendor's CEO Dheeraj Pandey.

• May 09, 2019 09 May'19

  Nutanix fights VMware with AHV hypervisor, cloud support

  In the battle for HCI supremacy, Nutanix has hyper-converged history and now AHV, while VMware has virtualization dominance and a boost from its parent Dell's server hardware.

• May 08, 2019 08 May'19

  With Nutanix Mine, HCI vet adds converged secondary storage

  Nutanix prepares to launch its Mine converged secondary storage appliances as it expands beyond primary storage with an architecture that Cohesity and Rubrik have adopted.

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  New NEC hyper-converged infrastructure appliance targets SMBs

  NEC partners with Scale Computing to launch its first hyper-converged infrastructure appliance tailored to SMBs and remote offices in the U.S. and Europe.

• April 09, 2019 09 Apr'19

  HPE-Nutanix deal expands roster of hyper-converged options

  The Hewlett Packard Enterprise-Nutanix partnership sprang up on two fronts, bringing more layers of coopetition to the world of HCI. But where does this leave HPE SimpliVity?

• March 20, 2019 20 Mar'19

  Dell EMC VxBlock 1000 mixes in Unity hybrid, Data Domain

  Ten years later, VCE is gone, EMC is part of Dell and Vblocks have become VxBlocks. But the early converged infrastructure stack is still going, with new products coming online.

• March 11, 2019 11 Mar'19

  Startup gives Datrium DVX subscription pricing

  With Datrium Forward, the software-defined storage startup looks to deliver a 'cloudy feel' to pricing for its DVX storage that spans on premises and in Amazon Web Services.

• March 04, 2019 04 Mar'19

  Nutanix HCI position under fire due to sales slump

  Nutanix CEO says HCI sales slowdown is temporary because its technology remains strong; in the meantime, Dell-VMware is pushing HCI deeper into the enterprise.

• February 05, 2019 05 Feb'19

  HCI software maker Maxta shuts down after funding failure

  Maxta tried to carve a niche in hyper-converged infrastructure with MxSP software for industry-standard x86 servers -- the business model HCI pioneer Nutanix shifted to in 2018.

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  Datera storage software trains for long run on HPE servers

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise and startup Datera combine on block-storage appliances and expect to compete against Dell EMC's ScaleIO-based VxRack Flex hyper-converged systems.

• January 03, 2019 03 Jan'19

  Detroit Symphony tunes up performance on Scale Computing HC3

  The nonprofit Detroit Symphony Orchestra refreshed its data infrastructure with a three-node Scale Computing HC3 hyper-converged storage cluster to manage 10 TB of data.

• December 12, 2018 12 Dec'18

  Amarillo hyper-converges IT with Dell EMC VxRail appliances

  Hyper-convergence cut costs, streamlined operations and set up Amarillo to use the cloud for storage tiers, while shifting resources away from managing infrastructure.

• November 08, 2018 08 Nov'18

  Dell EMC VxRail HCI builds on VMware Cloud Foundation

  Dell EMC builds on VMware Cloud Foundation and plans to offer a new two-node VxRail entry point, with a flexible VMware vSAN license. Dell EMC also adds VMware integration to VxBlock.

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  NetApp HCI aimed at hybrid clouds

  Late to HCI, NetApp tries to play catch up against Dell EMC, VMware and Nutanix by pushing its SolidFire flash-based product into hybrid cloud deployments.

• September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

  X-IO Axellio hitches HCI star to Microsoft, NVMe

  X-IO side steps VMware, enters hyper-competitive hyper-converged market with dense NVMe blades packed with Microsoft virtualization and storage software.

• September 26, 2018 26 Sep'18

  Hitachi Vantara storage takes turn to NVMe, cloud

  Hitachi Vantara updates its products and prepares to lay out a strategy for using its storage for IoT and distributed data management amid the multi-cloud movement.

• September 25, 2018 25 Sep'18

  Dell EMC VxRail powers Mercy Ships' floating hospital DCs

  Dell EMC hyper-converged appliances float the Mercy Ships IT team's boat. VxRail helps the medical charity consolidate IT technology in its floating hospitals and headquarters.

• September 06, 2018 06 Sep'18

  VMworld pushes vSAN HCI to cloud, edge

  Private beta for next vSAN version includes built-in snapshots, NFS file services and cloud-native storage, as well as improved cluster management for the HCI software.

• September 04, 2018 04 Sep'18

  Pivot3 storage moves toward composable capabilities

  CEO Ron Nash said Pivot3 and NexGen Storage are integrated as a single code base. NexGen gives Pivot3 automated QoS and dynamic provisioning for multi-cloud enterprises.

• August 29, 2018 29 Aug'18

  VSAN hyper-converged users offer buying, implementing advice

  Users provide tips on going from three tiers to tears-free hyper-convergence using VMware vSAN software or other HCI architectures proliferating in the data center and beyond.

• August 27, 2018 27 Aug'18

  Dell EMC HCI and storage cloud plans on display at VMworld

  Dell EMC promises to synchronize releases of VMware's vSAN on VxRail HCI appliances, although it may take 30 days to do it; fleshes out cloud support for storage, data protection.

• August 23, 2018 23 Aug'18

  HiveIO seeks to create buzz in HCI market

  HiveIO says artificial intelligence makes its Hive Fabric's Message Bus management unique; now, the HCI startup must prove it's really AI and not just an AI-wash.

• August 21, 2018 21 Aug'18

  Dell EMC PowerEdge MX teases 'kinetic' compute and storage

  Dell EMC composes its MX composable infrastructure story around SAS storage sleds that slide into in a single 14th generation 7U PowerEdge chassis, with OpenManage software.

• August 08, 2018 08 Aug'18

  Western Digital OpenFlex composes storage infrastructure

  Western Digital delivers OpenFlex architecture, an ambitious attempt to foster open standards for composable compute, network and storage as an alternative to hyper-convergence.

• July 11, 2018 11 Jul'18

  Datrium DVX switches focus to converged markets, enterprise

  Datrium approaches HCI in a nontraditional way, but its DVX architecture combines compute and storage while pumping up its data protection capabilities.

• June 21, 2018 21 Jun'18

  Cisco hyper-converged HyperFlex adds NVMe-enabled model

  Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 software adds native DR and cloud-based Intersight Storage Analytics. The all-flash hyper-converged systems integrate Nvidia GPUs and Intel Optane NVMe SSDs.

• June 07, 2018 07 Jun'18

  Hitachi UCP update includes NVMe cache, GPU server

  Hitachi updates Unified Compute Platform (UCP) portfolio with new NVMe-based Intel Optane caching option and technology from partners VMware and Cisco.

• May 24, 2018 24 May'18

  Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Cloud launches

  Red Hat expands its hyper-converged infrastructure lineup with a cloud offering that combines OpenStack and Ceph. The new option joins Gluster-based HCI for Virtualization.

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  Nutanix .NEXT 2018: CEO Pandey talks Xi, Cisco, multi-cloud

  Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey discusses why Xi Cloud Services are taking so long to deliver, blames Nutanix No. 1 HCI market share loss on 'funky accounting.'

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  Nutanix Flow, Beam, Era highlight .NEXT 2018 launches

  Nutanix uses small acquisitions to fuel further expansion of its core HCI into an enterprise cloud OS with Flow, Era and Beam, which were announced at the Nutanix .NEXT 2018.

• May 02, 2018 02 May'18

  'Software-defined' Dell EMC HCI gets hardware boost

  Dell EMC VxRail customers discuss their use of the HCI platform inside and outside the data center; platform moves to faster 14th gen PowerEdge servers powered by NVMe flash.

• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  VxRack Flex at the center of Medicity's SaaS cloud

  Hungry for power, healthcare SaaS provider Medicity installed Dell EMC VxRack Flex rack-scale HCI for private cloud to store petabytes of data for its customer network.

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  VMware pulls vSAN 6.7 deeper into vSphere

  By giving the vSAN 6.7 release more of a vSphere look and common management, VMware hopes to lure more of its customers to use its hyper-converged storage software.

• April 12, 2018 12 Apr'18

  Emergencies force Safelite to break glass, add NetApp FlexPod

  An auto glass supplier chooses FlexPod to consolidate and retire aging storage from several vendors. NetApp AFF supports VMware, and SolidFire arrays support growing claims management.

• April 02, 2018 02 Apr'18

  Nutanix HCI, Nakivo backup go straight into Compton schools

  The Compton, Calif., school district reduces its data center server and storage footprint with Nutanix hyper-convergence and simplifies data backup with Nakivo software.

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Pivot3 vSTAC HCI helps Charleston airport IT fly

  The Charleston airport IT team expanded its Pivot3 implementation from video surveillance to its main infrastructure stack after deciding hyper-convergence was the way to go.

• March 14, 2018 14 Mar'18

  Pivot3 Acuity X3 eyes big opportunities in smaller spaces

  Pivot3 expands its Acuity hyper-converged line with X3 Series. The NVMe flash appliances help smaller departments consolidate mixed application workloads on a common system.

• February 22, 2018 22 Feb'18

  Nutanix HCI helps keep NFL's Chicago Bears in the game

  The Chicago Bears' Nutanix hyper-converged clusters provide cloud-like access to coaching staples, like playbooks, schedules and scouting reports across the NFL team's facilities.

• February 13, 2018 13 Feb'18

  With VxBlock 1000, Dell EMC AMPs up converged platform

  Dell EMC VxBlock 1000 lets customers mix and match VMAX, Unity, XtremIO and Isilon arrays in a block with Cisco servers and networking. Will that reverse market share decline?

• February 05, 2018 05 Feb'18

  Software-defined storage leaders talk 2018 trends in SDS, HCI

  Software-defined storage, fueled by hyper-converged infrastructure and scale-out object/file storage, will grow in 2018, but terminology and product architectures may change.

• November 30, 2017 30 Nov'17

  Datrium DVX adds cloud option for Amazon Web Services

  Startup Datrium is readying a new Cloud DVX option for Amazon Web Services to provide customers with an off-site option for backup and disaster recovery.

• November 06, 2017 06 Nov'17

  Datrium storage system injects flash into the equation

  Software-defined Datrium DVX storage is mostly used with standard servers. New Compute Nodes and Data Nodes with end-to-end flash expand on proprietary hardware launched in April.

• October 23, 2017 23 Oct'17

  Maxta hyper-converged MxSP helps services firm fuel growth

  Maxta MxSP was deemed the most cost efficient hyper-converged product to help services provider Trusource Labs to add call centers amid rapid growth.

• October 11, 2017 11 Oct'17

  Comtrade upgrades HYCU Nutanix AHV backup software

  Comtrade Software improves the performance of its HYCU backup application that protects virtual machines running on hyper-converged vendor Nutanix's AHV hypervisor.

• October 09, 2017 09 Oct'17

  NetApp-SolidFire storage operating systems nudge closer

  NetApp's SolidFire skeleton gains some flesh with Ontap 9.3 and Element 10 integration. Notable features include enhanced security and SnapMirror replication between OSes.

• October 04, 2017 04 Oct'17

  NetApp HCI launches at subdued user show

  NetApp rolls out HCI based on the SolidFire flash array, consisting of two VMware compute nodes and two SolidFire storage nodes, at abbreviated user conference.

• August 29, 2017 29 Aug'17

  VMware Cloud Foundation, vSAN highlight VMworld 2017 news

  At VMworld 2017, Dell EMC, Hitachi Data Systems and Lenovo launched new and upgraded hyper-converged and hybrid cloud products based on VMware's vSAN and Cloud Foundation software.

• August 29, 2017 29 Aug'17

  Dell EMC VxRail 'billion-dollar business' soon, Sakac says

  The growth of Dell EMC VxRail and other hyper-converged appliances is the result of a shift toward software-defined storage, according to the vendor's converged platforms boss.

• August 23, 2017 23 Aug'17

  Hyper-converged technologies give higher-ed IT teams a lift

  Higher-education IT budgets often pale in comparison to enterprises, so hyper-converged technology can stretch resources while meeting demands.

• July 25, 2017 25 Jul'17

  Hyper-converged infrastructure architecture changes IT admin role

  IT leaders who have adopted a hyper-converged architecture say it streamlines costs and eliminates silos and finger-pointing, but also brings a fear of the unknown to their staffs.

• July 19, 2017 19 Jul'17

  Scale Computing HC3 family grows denser, flashier

  Scale Computing adds all-flash HC1150DF and high-end HC5150D hybrid arrays to HC3 family. The hyper-converged specialist adds deduplication in HyperCore upgrade.

• July 18, 2017 18 Jul'17

  Datrium DVX to support Red Hat Virtualization, containers

  Datrium will expand its DVX system beyond VMware environments to offer storage options for Red Hat Virtualization, KVM on CentOS Linux and Docker containers on bare-metal servers.

• July 03, 2017 03 Jul'17

  Nutanix CEO Pandey talks Google, cloud journey, HCI rivals

  CEO Dheeraj Pandey on Nutanix HCI: large server vendors were late to hyper-converged, and now the focus has shifted to building hybrid clouds across data centers.

• June 29, 2017 29 Jun'17

  Nutanix Xi Cloud Services revealed at Nutanix .NEXT 2017

  Xi Cloud Services brings hyper-converged vendor Nutanix into the public cloud game as it seeks to tie on-premises data to the cloud with the help of Calm orchestration software.

• June 22, 2017 22 Jun'17

  Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure joins the parade

  Red Hat launches open source-based hyper-converged product combining Gluster file system, KVM hypervisor, enterprise Linux, Ansible deployment tool and CloudForms management.

• June 05, 2017 05 Jun'17

  NetApp HCI system brings vendor belatedly into hyper-convergence

  NetApp's HCI incorporates flash hardware and quality of service from SolidFire, which NetApp acquired in 2016. Traditional NetApp software also runs on the HCI appliance.

• May 23, 2017 23 May'17

  Consultant firm pins enterprise cloud storage on HCI

  TBConsulting picked Nutanix hyper-convergence to tame virtual desktop problems, then quickly expanded its use for enterprise cloud storage in place of its three-tier architecture.

• May 10, 2017 10 May'17

  Dell EMC World 2017: XC, VxRail sold in coopetition

  Dell EMC sticks with both VxRail and XC hyper-converged appliances, putting them on 14G PowerEdge servers, with cloud-style pricing and $25,000 entry-level models.

• April 25, 2017 25 Apr'17

  Pivot3 Acuity combines QoS, NVMe flash from NexGen

  Pivot3's new Acuity brings together quality of service and NVMe flash from NexGen Storage, as well as data services from Pivot3 into a hyper-converged infrastructure platform.

• April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17

  Promise Technology VSkyCube HCI handles cloud migration

  VSkyCube is Promise Technology's hyper-converged infrastructure for midsize businesses and cloud hosting providers. VSkyMotion moves storage between Promise hardware and AWS.

• April 10, 2017 10 Apr'17

  VMware vSAN 6.6 adds encryption, analytics, 'nothing shocking'

  As hyper-convergence matures, VMware bulks up vSAN 6.6 release with native encryption, analytics and improved availability, performance and management.

• March 30, 2017 30 Mar'17

  Dell EMC VxRail leads college toward 'software-defined everything'

  A long search for the right hyper-converged system leads College of the Ozarks to Dell EMC VxRail due to its flash and data deduplication support.

• February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17

  DataCore Hyper-converged Virtual SAN (PSP5 Update)

  DataCore's Hyper-converged Virtual SAN update wins bronze award for server-based storage in 2016 Storage Products of the Year competition.

• January 18, 2017 18 Jan'17

  HPE pays $650 million for SimpliVity hyper-convergence

  The long-awaited HPE-SimpliVity deal cost HPE $650 million for the hyper-converged pioneer. The buy gives HPE an installed base, as well as data reduction and protection features.

• December 21, 2016 21 Dec'16

  HCI market 2016: Nutanix goes IPO, server vendors go all-in

  The top HCI 2016 news included Nutanix becoming a public company, while the newly combined Dell EMC decided whether to treat Nutanix as friend or foe.

• December 12, 2016 12 Dec'16

  Stratoscale tunes Symphony for AWS hyper-converged duet

  Stratoscale's latest Symphony hyper-converged upgrade adds AWS S3 object storage, Kubernetes-as-a-Service and an Application Catalog to help developers building cloud-native apps.

• December 01, 2016 01 Dec'16

  Holy COW! New Hampshire med center turns to Pivot3 vSTAC for VDI

  Southern New Hampshire Medical Center put its server-storage architecture out to pasture when it added Pivot3 vSTAC hyper-convergence to power its computers on wheels, or COWs.

• November 09, 2016 09 Nov'16

  Nutanix networking management includes microsegmentation, APIs

  Nutanix adds 'one-click networks' to its hyper-convergence as part of its plans to become an on-premises version of Amazon Web Services as a foundation for building private clouds.

• November 07, 2016 07 Nov'16

  Hyper-convergence vendors go beyond Nutanix, server giants

  The hyper-convergence vendor landscape is no longer dominated by startups, which leaves the likes of SimpliVity, Pivot3 and Scale Computing to battle Nutanix and the server and storage giants.

• October 20, 2016 20 Oct'16

  Dell EMC will keep Cisco Vblocks, Nutanix XC Series hyper-convergence

  Dell EMC reinforced its commitment to sell Cisco products in Vblocks and Nutanix-based XC Series hyper-convergence, even if those vendors compete with Dell and EMC products.

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  VMware hyper-convergence takes small steps with VSAN 6.5

  Version 6.5 of VMware's VSAN hyper-converged platform aims to simplify VSAN deployment in remote offices and all-flash nodes, but the update lacks groundbreaking features.

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  HDS UCP node adds scale, hyper-converged node gets smaller

  Hitachi converged UCP 2000 clusters now scale to 128 nodes; UCP HC V240 VSAN Ready Node adds a one-node option. Hitachi Enterprise Cloud was rolled out for hybrid VMware cloud storage.

• October 17, 2016 17 Oct'16

  Lenovo ThinkAgile brand debuts, adds converged option

  Lenovo introduces the ThinkAgile brand name for preintegrated infrastructure. The company is also partnering with Nimble Storage on a new CX Series converged infrastructure option.

• October 11, 2016 11 Oct'16

  New Pivot3 storage makes strategic play for SMB, ROBO users

  Edge Office is the new Pivot3 storage for hyper-convergence at midsize companies and distributed enterprises. Modular configurations range from 1.6 TB to 6.4 TB per node.

• October 03, 2016 03 Oct'16

  Kaleao sticks an ARM into hyper-convergence

  Kaleao gambles that customers will buy its KMAX hyper-convergence; it favors 64-bit ARM processors and microvisors, rather than x86 hardware and traditional hypervisors.

• September 30, 2016 30 Sep'16

  Nutanix IPO a done deal ... finally

  Nutanix IPO has been in limbo since December, but the hyper-converged pioneer is now a public company amid rosy forecasts for the technology it helped push into the foreground.

• September 23, 2016 23 Sep'16

  Manufacturer floats private cloud on Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform

  Switching to a Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform-based SAN allows Excelitas Technologies to adopt 'AWS-like' private cloud for databases, Microsoft Windows environment.

• September 08, 2016 08 Sep'16

  Hyper-convergence can reduce storage complexity, management silos

  Hyper-converged appliances reduce the use of management silos, but storage admins have to give up control of primary storage and adjust to a world without LUNs.

• August 31, 2016 31 Aug'16

  All-flash VSAN gaining speed

  When buzzwords collide: Flash storage is making its mark on hyper-convergence, and VMware VSAN customers are giving all-flash VSAN clusters a try.