Much has changed within the storage channel over the past few years. New technologies, especially cloud-computing, have created innovative business models that have transformed not only what channel businesses sell, but the way they sell them too. As a result, many resellers have evolved into service providers in a process that is now fairly well understood. Source: A channel guide to Open Source success | Channel Pro
Flash-only storage systems are becoming the main focus for primary arrays, as prices fall and users get a taste of their performance capabilities.
Box continues to slow in terms of revenue growth with worsening gross profits and negative free cash flows. Box stock is best avoided right now.
2016 will see international business mirror explosive US growth of 2014, channel boss claims Source: Pure Storage claims non-US business is set to boom | CRN
$124,300 is the median advertised salary for cloud computing professionals in 2016. EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) have advertised the greatest number of cloud computing jobs in the last twelve months. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue leads the top twenty metro areas that have the most open positions for cloud computing professionals […]
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 16, 2016 — Mike Tanner, president and CEO of Hitachi Data Systems’ federal Source: HDS’ Mike Tanner: Software-Defined Networks, Tiered Storage to Address Big Data Issues
IBM recently rolled out a pair of new storage offerings: the “Gen 2” Storwize V5000 hybrid system, with upgraded Spectrum Virtualize software, and a “Platf Source: IBM ships new Storwize V5000, rolls out software package for Apache Spark – Storage Soup
Seagate has demonstrated the world’s “fastest ever SSD”, claims a press release from the storage technology firm. A 16-lane PCIe SSD provided a data transfer performance of 10 gigabytes per second (GB/s), which is claimed to be 4GB/s faster than its nearest competitor. The drives are said to be “production ready” and this 16-lane drive, and an 8-lane version, will be made generally available to customers this summer. Brett Pemble, Seagate’s general manager and vice president of SSD Products, talked…
What do Box’s results say about its ability to compete with Amazon, Alphabet and Microsoft cloud services?
Source: Networks Should Scale Up To Match Storage Needs – CXOtoday.com
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