
Chris Mellor
Storage Editor at The Register
Editor and Founder at Blocks and Files
Storage writer for Blocks & Files. Also on BlueSky.
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1 week ago |
blocksandfiles.com | Chris Mellor
Analysis: NetApp posted record revenue this quarter, helped by all-flash array sales and public cloud storage demand. In the fourth fiscal 2025 quarter ended April 25, NetApp reported record revenues of $1.73 billion, up 4 percent on the year. There was a $340 million profit (GAAP net income), 16.8 percent more than a year ago. Its full fy2025 revenues were its highest-ever, at $6.57 billion, 5 percent more than fy2024 revenues, with a profit of $1.2 billion, 20.7 percent up on the year.
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blocksandfiles.com | Chris Mellor
Tape library and systems vendor SpectraLogic announced LTO-10 support across its tape library product set, but IBM’s tape drive shrinks the expected capacity and loses backwards compatibility. LTO-10 is the latest LTO tape generation and the LTO organization’s spec has specified a 36 TB raw capacity and 90 TB compressed capacity at 2.5:1 compression. LTO tape reels are made by Fujifilm and Sony and tape drives by IBM.
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blocksandfiles.com | Chris Mellor
Nutanix enjoyed a classic beat-and-raise results pattern in its latest quarterly earnings report. Revenues in hyperconverged infrastructure software supplier Nutanix’s third fiscal 2025 quarter, ended April 30, were $637 million, beating its $630 million high-point estimate, and up 22 percent year-on-year. It reported $63.4 million of net profit (GAAP net income), roundly beating the year-ago $15.6 million loss.
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blocksandfiles.com | Chris Mellor
MinIO is supporting AWS’s fastest S3 storage tier to offer object data access for AI and data-intensive analytics workloads. S3 Express One Zone has a 10x lower latency to first byte compared to the standard S3 offering. It comes at a price, costing nearly five times more at $0.11/GB/month than S3 Standard’s $0.023 for the first 50 TB/month.
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blocksandfiles.com | Chris Mellor
Pure Storage’s first quarter revenues rose in double digits with no signs of order pull-ins from tariff uncertainity. Revenues grew 12 percent year-on-year to $879.8 million in the quarter ended May 4, beating the $770 million outlook. Pure reported a net loss of $13.9 million, better than the year-ago $35 million loss.
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