IBM Flat Despite Cloud Gains, HPE Declares Dividend
In a financial earnings season like none before, two of the world’s largest enterprise IT infrastructure vendors appear headed in opposite directions. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) declared a ...Full Article
WekaIO Launches DataOps AI Pipeline for Data-Starved GPUs
WekaIO, the high-performance file storage specialist, today launched Weka AI, a DataOps “storage solution framework” designed to cut friction in edge-core-cloud data AI pipelines. The company said the offering ...Full Article
HCI Deployments Fuel Booming Software-Defined Storage Market
The sheer volume of unstructured data along with training and other data associated with AI and machine learning projects is fueling the shift by datacenters operators to software-defined storage ...Full Article
Kubernetes Gains Stability, New Features
This year’s first update of the de facto standard Kubernetes cluster orchestrator includes 38 enhancements, of which nearly half have been declared “stable” features. Kubernetes 1.18 released this week ...Full Article
Undeterred, VCs Bet on Cloud, Data Startups
If the global economy is to recover from a pandemic that has so far killed tens of thousands while disrupting supply chains and causing widespread unemployment, the technology sector ...Full Article
Security Threats Soar Along with Data Volumes
Lost data are costing organizations on average $1 million per month as data volumes soar and protecting stored data grows harder with the emergence of edge infrastructure handling AI ...Full Article
DoD Will Revisit JEDI Cloud Contract
The Pentagon will reboot its department-wide cloud contract after a federal judge refereeing a protest filed by Amazon Web Services indicated the cloud giant was likely to succeed in ...Full Article
NetApp Eyes Unstructured Data with Storage Deal
As companies consolidate storage infrastructure in public clouds, market consolidation among storage vendors continues apace as vendors offer expanded offerings designed to boost cloud access to growing data volumes. ...Full Article
Nvidia Buys Object Storage Vendor SwiftStack
Nvidia is acquiring cloud data storage specialist SwiftStack, accelerating the consolidation of the object storage sector as AI applications developed by Nvidia move between private and public clouds. Terms ...Full Article
Dell Reports Record Revenue, but Outlook Raises Flags
Dell Technologies record annual revenues announced last week was nevertheless met with unease by shareholders wary of the outlook for its VMware business. Dell (NYSE: DELL) reported full-year revenues ...Full Article
