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External OEM storage revenue rises 3.9% to USD $33bn

IDC says the external OEM enterprise storage market returned to growth in 2025 as delayed refresh cycles lifted spending, with all-flash arrays leading gains.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Thu, 12th Mar 2026

Storage

Pure Storage unveils new top partner tier & services push

Pure Storage launches an Ambassador partner tier and boosts services focus, aiming to deepen channel skills in AI, cyber resilience and cloud.

By Melania Watson • 5 min read • Thu, 5th Feb 2026

Storage

Pure Storage unveils Ambassador tier in EMEA revamp

Pure Storage launches elite Ambassador tier and solution badges in EMEA, sharpening services-led partner focus on AI, cloud and cyber resilience.

By Melania Watson • 5 min read • Thu, 5th Feb 2026

Storage

Hitachi Vantara storage named leader in GigaOm AI era

Hitachi Vantara's VSP One platform is named a GigaOm primary storage Leader again, praised for AI-era cyber resilience and hybrid cloud support.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Tue, 16th Dec 2025

Storage

Western Digital unveils new AI-ready storage & open lab upgrade

Western Digital unveils major storage upgrades, including OCCL 2.0 and new systems, to boost AI, machine learning and cloud environment capacity.

By Melania Watson • 3 min read • Tue, 20th May 2025

Storage

Pure Storage launches cloud solution for Azure VMware

Pure Storage has launched its Cloud for Microsoft Azure VMware Solution, promising seamless management and potential savings of up to 40% on costs.

By Kaleah Salmon • 4 min read • Tue, 5th Nov 2024

Software-as-a-Service

Hitachi Vantara unveils new generation of EverFlex IaaS portfolio

Hitachi Vantara unveils the latest Hitachi EverFlex IaaS portfolio, promising enhanced IT operations with advanced automation and adaptable service options.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Wed, 18th Sep 2024

Storage

Cloud Storage-as-a-Service: The new approach to mass capacity data storage and management

Storage-as-a-service cloud solutions for multicloud deployments will be critical to ensuring higher availability of data and resilience.

By Jeff Park • 4 min read • Wed, 8th Sep 2021

Storage

Why Storage-as-a-Service is a great way forward for smart organisations

Moving to STaaS can help overcome barriers and unleash the power of data for smart organisations, Pure Storage vice president for ANZ Michael Alp.

By Staff Writer • 4 min read • Mon, 29th Mar 2021

Storage

Pure expands as-a-service offerings with focus on transparency

It aims to provide the economic benefits of cloud, along with those of Evergreen architecture including non-disruptive expansions and maintenance.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Wed, 25th Nov 2020

Storage

Cloudian and Seagate partner to take on STaaS

The companies' new solution claims to offer private cloud at up to 70% lower total cost of ownership than Storage-as-a-Service options.

By Ben Moore • 3 min read • Wed, 26th Jun 2019

Storage

Managed service providers can find value in storage as a service

Data storage is already a major pain for organisations and by 2025, data volumes will be close to 1,000% higher than they are today.

By Marina Brook • 5 min read • Wed, 28th Nov 2018

Storage

Interoute rolls out global cloud-based storage service with Cloudian

Interoute launches cloud-based storage service using Cloudian technology, offering fast, reliable and low-cost storage for unstructured data.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Fri, 4th Aug 2017

Hyperscale

Zadara Storage launches third Europe AWS region, headquartered in London

Zadara Storage expands its Storage as a Service platform in Europe, launching a new AWS region in London to meet growing demand, in partnership with Equinix.

By Sara Barker • 2 min read • Fri, 30th Jun 2017