Storage

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  Veeam CTO On Why Veeam Wanted To Be Acquired And What Comes Next

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  Veeam's next growth wave will come in the U.S. where it has a fourth-place market share, and that requires Veeam to move its operations, leadership, board of directors, and focus out of Europe and to the U.S., Danny Allan told CRN in an exclusive meeting.

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  5 Things To Know About The Massive $5B Acquisition Of Veeam

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  Co-founders Baranov and Timashev are leaving as Veeam looks to re-focus its energy from its dominance in its European market to seeking dominance in the much larger, much faster growing U.S. market, with the help of an experienced investment team.

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  Actifio CEO Ash Ashutosh: The Future Will Include Storage Designed For Apps, Not Infrastructure

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘When you get to an app-down design, where it's infrastructure-agnostic, where it's truly being aware of what an application really needs, the ability for us to do things in all kinds of platforms and speeds and costs, that's what really allows us to go back and derive more value out of the data that customer has,’ Actifio CEO Ash Ashutosh tells CRN.

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  The 10 Hottest SSD And Flash Storage Products Of 2019

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  Flash storage has entered a new level of maturity, with new performance and capacity springing from such technologies as NVMe and vendors including NetApp, Dell EMC, HPE, Hitachi Vantara and Pure Storage leading the charge.

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  The 10 Hottest Data Storage Startups Of 2019

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  CRN looks at 10 startup storage vendors that in 2019 made headlines as they came out of stealth, unveiled their first storage products, or pursued acquisitions.

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  AWS re:Invent: 10 New Ways To Connect Storage To AWS

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  These 10 vendors used AWS re:Invent to show new ways partners and customers can bridge data across on-premises and AWS environments with new capabilities including NVMe, artificial intelligence, machine learning, analytics, and more.

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  Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev On Selling N2WS And Pushing AWS, Azure Backup Leadership

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘We believe three markets are going to be huge: Office 365, AWS backup, and backup of Azure. All native cloud native backups. Each of these markets will become, for us, maybe half-a-billion-dollar opportunities in the next five years,” says Veeam CEO Ratmir Timashev.

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  IDC: NetApp Tanks, Huawei Banks As Storage Industry Realigns

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  IDC reports worldwide enterprise external OEM storage systems sales rose a mere 1.3 percent over last year, with the biggest changes coming from continue sales issues at NetApp while the China market, and China's Huawei, grab the growth baton.

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  Pure Storage CEO Giancarlo Talks Cloud, Exec Changes, And Having '56 Billion More Dollars Than Dell'

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘We have no debt, a billion on the balance sheet, and continue to generate cash,’ says Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo.

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  Faces Of The 2019 Next Gen 250

  by Rick Whiting

  Here we present 25 companies on CRN’s 2019 Next Gen 250 list, highlighting the solution providers that have developed skills, solutions and services around the leading-edge technologies that are driving the IT industry today.

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  30 Notable IT Executive Moves: October 2019

  by Dylan Martin

  Among the largest IT executive moves in October were CEO shuffles at top companies like SAP, ServiceNow, National Instruments, Mitel and Imperva.

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  NetApp CFO Ron Pasek On Cloud, Keystone, Dell, And Slowing FlexPod Sales

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  NetApp has a bright future thanks to its unique hybrid multi-cloud and Data Fabric strategies, Ron Pasek tells CRN.

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  12 New VMware NSX, Security And Kubernetes Products At VMWorld

  by Mark Haranas

  Here are the 12 newest VMware products – from Kubernetes and Carbon Black to NSX and Workspace ONE – unveiled at VMWorld 2019 Europe this week.

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  Here Are Dell’s Top 5 Highest-Paid Executives

  by Mark Haranas

  Four Dell Technologies’ executives were paid more than CEO Michael Dell in fiscal year 2019. CRN breaks down each executive’s salary, bonuses and total compensation.

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  CRN Exclusive: NetApp CEO George Kurian On Keystone, Clouds And Competition

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  NetApp's Data Fabric has moved from vision to reality, particularly with the new Keystone consumption pricing, and no other vendor can manage data across on-premises data centers to public clouds as tightly as NetApp does, Kurian tells CRN in an interview at the NetApp Insight 2019 conference.