eWEEK STORAGE NEWS: Veteran data management provider updates its ONTAP platform to offer what it calls "storageless" data protection, in which app developers need not worry about storage requirements.
The 'ideas factory' falls victim to latest round of corporate penny-pinching
NetApp has confirmed it is closing down the standalone Advanced Technology Group (ATG) an incubation unit that was part of the office of the CTO and once described as the "ideas factory".
Q1 beat analysts' expectations
NetApp boss George Kurian has confirmed a guidance-beating 5 per cent revenue jump for Q1 of its fiscal '21 while also admitting to chopping the same percentage of staff in layoffs, as first revealed yesterday by The Register.
Cant say much until its results are released tomorrow... conveniently
Perennial cloud-contender NetApp has swung the axe on the eve of its quarterly results.
Cant say much until its results are released tomorrow... conveniently
Exclusive Perennial cloud-contender NetApp has pruned its workforce on the eve of its quarterly results.
When Spotinst rebranded to Spot in March, it seemed big changes were afoot for the startup, which originally helped companies find and manage cheap infrastructure known as spot instances (hence its original name). We had no idea how big at the time. Today, NetApp announced plans to acquire the startup. The companies did not share […]
At XChange Solution Provider 2018, NetApp executive Jeremy Hall talks about how customers are willing to give up features and better performance of converged infrastructure in favor of simpler hyper-converged solutions.
NetApp customers have the option of going software-defined storage either as part of hardware or virtual appliances or on the cloud, but they still like to have fully configured storage arrays with support from one vendor, Kurian tells CRN.
Stuffs portfolio with CI, flash and converged solutions
NetApp is setting up a Cloud Infrastructure business unit, giving it FlexPod, SolidFire and StorageGRID, and hiring a cloud services hotshot to run it.
Five top storage vendors have mixed responses on how the Spectre and Meltdown issue might affect storage hardware and software.
NetApp says that because its OnTap storage operating system does not allow the running of third-party applications or malicious software, attackers cannot use its hardware or software to access privileged information.
Pure Storage, a vendor 100 percent focused on all-flash storage, is on the verge of profitability, and new CEO Charlie Giancarlo tells CRN that future opportunities include hyper-converged infrastructure, running compute on storage arrays, and the cloud.
'We've clearly lost [storage] share, it's undeniable, and we're not satisfied with that. We're investing in sales capacity and coverage and expertise,' said Dell Vice Chairman of Products and Operations Jeff Clarke on the company's third-quarter earnings call Thursday.
Third quarter brings positive cash flow for first time
Analysis Pure Storage had a great growth quarter and sees itself taking on NetApp filers with its unstructured data FlashBlade product.
NetApp's impressive gains over HPE and Dell EMC were overshadowed by the ODM vendor sales to hyperscalers powering the public cloud.
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