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• 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.

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• 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

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise-Nutanix partnership springs 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.