Pure Storage’s impressive sales growth diluted by losses

Pure Storage is finding that it’s expensive to grow sales in the all-flash storage market these days. While Pure increased revenue last quarter by 89%...
NetApp launches Ontap 9 for flash, cloud

With the worst part of its Clustered Data Ontap (CDOT) challenges behind it, NetApp is bringing out the...
Flash accelerates Nimble sales, not profits

Nimble Storage received a quick jolt from its All Flash arrays last quarter, as the platform drove larger deals and helped bring in bigger customers. The vendor continued to...
Violin Memory’s struggles continue

Violin Memory had little to show for its turnaround efforts last quarter. The all-flash vendor’s revenue declined and it continue to lose money, prompting the CEO to tell investors he feels their pain. Violin Tuesday reported $9.7 million in revenue for last quarter, down from $12.1 million...
Datrium says new twist makes DVX run crazy fast

Datrium has added an “Insane Mode” feature that the startup claims can double host storage performance on the fly. Datrium took the Insane Mode tag from...
Brocade FC storage sales down, and will stay there for now

Brocade’s earnings for last quarter show a decline in storage sales consistent with what large array vendors have reported. The Fibre Channel switch vendor’s forecast for this...
Nexsan, EMC fight over ‘Unity’ name

The product name Unity is at the center of a trademark dispute in the data storage industry between Nexsan and EMC. Nexsan Technologies filed a complaint against EMC on May 6 in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts claiming it has priority to the Unity trademark and is not infringing upon...
Datto expands into file sync and share with a free, one-year service

Data Protection specialist Datto is giving away its new file sync and share service for a year.
The Datto Drive service for SMBs is hosted on the vendor's 200 PB private cloud within nine worldwide data centers. The service comes with a global license agreement with open source
Quantum revenues sink, with upsurge predicted

Like many storage vendors, Quantum’s revenue took a dip last quarter and for the full year. The backup and scale-out storage specialist predicts it will rally beginning this quarter, however, due to a pickup in video-related storage systems. Quantum’s total revenue of $120 million for last...
Gridstore chairman takes CEO reins

Gridstore chairman Nairman Teymourian took over as CEO today, with plans to install a utility services model for delivering hyper-convergence.
Teymourian has been Gridstore’s chairman since October. He replaces