No hallucination: HPE logs $6.4B of orders for AI servers, share price falls – Blocks and Files

No hallucination: HPE logs .4B of orders for AI servers, share price falls – Blocks and Files

HPE hit its revenue forecast for Q3 of fiscal 2024 ended July 31, led by AI and traditional server sales. Yet it wasn’t all good news. The infrastructure giant’s share price dipped after margins slid due to the high… Article Source https://blocksandfiles.com/2024/09/05/ai-servers-lift-hpe-revenues/

Amazon zeroes out ETL for shifting Aurora and DynamoDB data into Redshift – Blocks and Files

Amazon zeroes out ETL for shifting Aurora and DynamoDB data into Redshift – Blocks and Files

Amazon is making it easier to analyze transactional data held in its Aurora PostgreSQL and DynamoDB databases by avoiding the need for ETL routines when moving data from them into its Redshift data warehouse. Aurora… Article Source https://blocksandfiles.com/2024/10/16/aws-zeroes-out-etl-for-shifting-aurora-and-dynamodb-data-into-redshift/

Microsoft and AWS lead Gartner report on distributed HCI market – Blocks and Files

Microsoft and AWS lead Gartner report on distributed HCI market – Blocks and Files

The top two public clouds – Amazon’s and Microsoft’s – lead the distributed HCI market in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant (MQ) report, with Nutanix and Broadcom (VMware) following close behind. Gartner stopped… Article Source https://blocksandfiles.com/2024/10/14/azure-stack-and-aws-outposts-and-snow-lead-gartners-distributed-hci-mq/

Nutanix raises revenue notwithstanding large deal pushout – Blocks and Files

Nutanix raises revenue notwithstanding large deal pushout – Blocks and Files

Nutanix beat the street with its latest results driven by a strong contract renewals performance and increased sales in its customer base, despite large deals taking longer to close. Revenues in its fourth fiscal 2024 quarter, ended July 31, were $548 million, a 21 percent annual increase, and a loss of $126.1 million mainly due … Read more

US colo LightEdge offers single tenant Nutanix cloud – Blocks and Files

US colo LightEdge offers single tenant Nutanix cloud – Blocks and Files

US Nutanix users can get a single-tenant cloud just for their workloads from LightEdge, eliminating noisy neighbor resource-limiting problems. LightEdge is a US-based cloud service and colocation datacenter provider with 12 Tier III datacenter sites and upwards of 1,300 customers. In April, it acquired St. Louis-based Connectria, which provides multi-cloud infrastructure (IBM, AWS, and Azure … Read more

Dell ups stakes in VMware battle with Nutanix-powered servers – Blocks and Files

Dell ups stakes in VMware battle with Nutanix-powered servers – Blocks and Files

Dell is stepping up its attack on Broadcom’s VMware customer base with a deal to run Nutanix software on its servers and add PowerFlex external storage support as well. Since Broadcom took over VMware it has alienated a league of VMware customers with price and product package changes, as well as irritating VMware channel partners … Read more

Investors chase Nutanix founder and engineer’s do-it-again DevRev dream – Blocks and Files

Investors chase Nutanix founder and engineer’s do-it-again DevRev dream – Blocks and Files

VCs and angel investors are ploughing $100 million into two Nutanix veterans’ vision of a cloud-based platform for customer support and software development, valuing it at $1.15 billion. Nutanix founding CEO Dheeraj Pandey and former SVP engineering, Manoj Agarwal, launched DevRev in 2020 and raised $50 million in seed funding the following year. DevRev refers … Read more

Cloudian secures additional funding upon reaching profitability, secures HPE GreenLake victories – Blocks and Files

Cloudian secures additional funding upon reaching profitability, secures HPE GreenLake victories – Blocks and Files

Cloudian recently secured $23 million in growth funding as demand for object storage continues to increase. The company’s HyperStore solution is seeing a 30 percent year-over-year increase in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and is being used for AI data lake storage. Cloudian has partnered with HPE to offer HyperStore as a GreenLake service, gaining four … Read more