CTERA Expands Executive Team to Capitalize on Cloud File Market

By Dave Raffo, Friday, March 31st 2023

Analyst Blogs

The News: Cloud NAS vendor CTERA promoted Oded Nagel to chief executive officer, Michael Amselem to Chief Revenue Officer, and Saimon Michelson to Vice President of Alliances. Former CEO and founder Liran Eshel will serve as Executive Chairman of the Board, a role...

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Akamai Acquires Ondat for its Connected Cloud, Strengthening Cloud Computing Services Offering

By Dave Raffo, Thursday, March 9th 2023

Analyst Blogs

The News: Akamai Technologies has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire container-native storage (CNS) startup Ondat to strengthen its cloud computing services. Read the Akamai press release here. Akamai Acquires Ondat for its Connected Cloud, Strengthening Cloud Computing Services...

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NetApp Q3 2023: Concentrating on Factors Under its Control During Weak IT Spending

By Dave Raffo, Friday, February 24th 2023

Analyst Blogs

The News: NetApp released Q3 results, reporting net revenues of $1.53 billion, billings of $1.57 billion, non-GAAP net income of $301 million. Read the NetApp press release here. NetApp Q3 2023: Concentrating on Factors Under its Control During Weak IT Spending...

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NetApp Announces a New Consumption Model for Perpetual Technology Refresh

By Dave Raffo, Tuesday, February 7th 2023

Analyst Blogs

The News: NetApp launched NetApp Advance, a consumption program that includes free controller refreshes and capacity upgrades, and storage efficiency guarantees. NetApp Advance also allows customers to swap an on-premises controller refresh for cloud services or NetApp Keystone Storage as...

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Container-Native Storage could have uptick in adoption, M&A in 2023

By Dave Raffo, Monday, January 9th 2023

Analyst Blogs

We expect 2023 to be an interesting year for container storage. Based on 2022 events and the continuing growth of Kubernetes deployments, we should see a lot of clarity around container adoption. Storage vendors mostly have approached containers in several...

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KubeCon 2022: Storage Vendors Jockey for Position

By Dave Raffo, Monday, October 31st 2022

Analyst Blogs

While not mainly a storage show, KubeCon always provides a window into how the storage landscape for containers is shaping up. KubeCon 2022 in Detroit last week was no exception. There were few substantial storage launches during the conference, but...

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Dell, Red Hat Team Up for HCI and Container Storage

By Dave Raffo, Thursday, September 15th 2022

Analyst Blogs

You hear the term “multi-cloud” thrown around a lot these days. Like many IT buzzwords, multi-cloud means different things depending who is talking about it. To Dell, multi-cloud means working with multiple partners – other tech providers as cloud providers...

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AWS Expands File Storage Performance

By Dave Raffo, Monday, August 15th 2022

Analyst Blogs

Evaluator Group Take on AWS Storage Day File Storage Enhancements AWS File Cache Due Later in 2022 Although data protection and resiliency was the main focus of news at AWS Storage Day 2022 last week, the public cloud giant also...

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Cloud-Native Storage Takes a Data-First Focus – Data Center Knowledge Blog by Dave Raffo

By Dave Raffo, Thursday, December 2nd 2021

Analyst Blogs

Developers using CNS need data management – they are less interested in what type of storage media they are pinning their data to Two products in the emerging cloud-native storage (CNS) market have undergone name changes in 2021, providing a...

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Nutanix Expands Partnerships to Embrace Cloud, Containers – ITPro Today Blog by Dave Raffo

By Dave Raffo, Friday, October 1st 2021

Press Category

Nutanix is in a state of transition and hopes that new partnerships with the likes of AWS, Azure, Red Hat and Citrix will help it reach its goal of a unversal platform that runs traditional or modern applications. No vendor...

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