Things staying as they are as storage player becomes 'number two' in sales rankings

Things staying as they are as storage player becomes 'number two' in sales rankings
Storage firm claims it's on the money by looking towards the hybrid cloud after recent product enhancements
Nimble Storage takes the guesswork out of prospect sales for its partners
Big Blue launches new all-flash arrays and starts Dell EMC 'migration' programme
60 terabyte flash monster will ship to data centres in 2017
Sets up pan-European HQ in the UK and hires three new distributors for its secure flash offering
But 90 percent of UK firms said there was a need for flash in their business
In-house demand forecasting application is now supported by Pure's FlashArrays
Previous funding round for the flash SDS company raised $35m, now Cisco has joined the party
EMC unveils EMC Unity Family, Virtustream Storage Cloud, EMC MyService360 Service Dashboard, EMC Enterprise Copy Data Management and ViPR Controller 3.0
Autonet Insurance overhauls architecture to solve slow online response times
Distributor's service providers to benefit from 'evergreen lifecycle'
Rob Salmon leaves after 22 years
Liquidware Labs and flash storage vendor make it easier to sell the technology to customers
Overall shipments up but value continues to decline despite a big jump in demand for flash
Price or performance? UK businesses think cost of flash is still a major factor in implementation as performance-savvy France and US pull ahead
Resellers signing up in droves claims all channel storage firm
Company unveils two new all flash systems to back up its pronouncement
Nimble bought InfoSight for its predictive analysis technology, and now that IP is hard at work in new all-flash arrays
Flash storage and ONTAP combo improves operations for the HR giant
Firm also brings in senior HPE and Dell executives to help grow company
ICC has been serving the SAN market since 1998 and will now sell Nimble flash solutions
NetApp says that with its new all-flash solutions users can 'seamlessly move data from flash to disk to cloud as it ages'
The move will however potentially lead to less support revenues going to partners not providing any of the infrastructure stack
The all-flash rewards move is designed to 'kill the little dogs biting at our heels right now', said NetApp, which is wooing partners in Warsaw
George Kurian was appointed interim CEO last week after the company's board took the reins off incumbent Tom Georgens, following poor financial results
Pure Storage is now introducing an improved incentive framework, consisting of a new co-branded partner-driven customer reference programme, among other features
NetApp is enabling its partners to target midsize to large businesses that are looking to accelerate workloads, without compromising the way they deploy, manage and protect data
The Oracle FS1 flash storage system is purpose-built to exploit the performance of flash while providing the benefits of 'disk economics'
The new programme features the introduction of certification levels, incentives and sales enablement tools to support flash storage sales