In praise of the bezel (but make sure it’s a good one)

Bezels are a neglected aspect of data storage hardware, and I think that's a shame. Bezels are everywhere in data centres but their design gets little attention, no credit and no acknowledgement. To remind you, a bezel is “the plastic...

SPEC replaces SPECsfs 2014 benchmark with AI and genomics workouts

One of the more complicated file storage performance benchmarks is being replaced - by a successor that is even more complicated.

Storageless storage is the ‘answer’ to Kubernetes data challenges

NetApp and Hammerspace have recently begun talking about 'storageless storage'. No, it's not an oxymoron, but a concept that takes a leaf...

Cloud object storage vendors that compete with Amazon S3

Pricing unpredictability and egress charges are the main problems with Amazon’s S3 object storage, according to GigaOm. But there are plenty of...

What does AWS Outposts mean for on-premises storage vendors?

Amazon late last year launched AWS Outposts, a fully managed service based on a converged infrastructure rack, including server, storage, networking, and...

Project Karavi is Dell’s way to extend Kubernetes CSI

Dell has unveiled Project Karavi, an initiative to add enterprise storage features to the Kubernetes CSI interface. K8s...

Your occasional storage digest, featuring Brexit, Tsinghua Unigroup and more

Brexit, China, the cloud and 3D NAND are the main themes in this week's digest. We also have a multitude of smaller...

IDC finds another way to count HCI revenues – and Nutanix comes out of this very well

IDC has devised yet another way to classify HCI revenues, this time by counting sales of the software running the heterogeneous storage controller that supplies block, file and object storage.

Diamanti blows AWS and Azure away on containerised SQL Server benchmark

Diamanti has published some test results that show its containerised SQL Server performance is much faster and cheaper than running SQL Server in AWS or Azure container instances. It is also faster...

Clumio simplifies ransomware protection with ‘virtual air gap’

Clumio this week launched RansomProtect which it claims is the industry’s first air-gapped ransomware protection for private and public clouds and SaaS applications. According to the cloud-backup, companies seeking a...

VMware cements HCI lead – and maybe at Nutanix’s expense

Once again, VMware and Nutanix dominate the IDC quarterly revenue tracker for HCI systems by software owner. But their numbers diverge in the 2020 third quarter tallies, with VMware gaining revenues and...

Rubrik picks up Igneous pieces, gains Petabyte scale

Rubrik has bought "key technology and IP assets of Igneous", the Seattle-based data management startup which hit the buffers this year. Terms are undisclosed. Dan Rogers
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Clumio simplifies ransomware protection with ‘virtual air gap’

Clumio this week launched RansomProtect which it claims is the industry’s first air-gapped ransomware protection for private and public clouds and SaaS applications.

VMware cements HCI lead – and maybe at Nutanix’s expense

Once again, VMware and Nutanix dominate the IDC quarterly revenue tracker for HCI systems by software owner. But their numbers diverge in...

Rubrik picks up Igneous pieces, gains Petabyte scale

Rubrik has bought "key technology and IP assets of Igneous", the Seattle-based data management startup which hit the buffers this year. Terms...

IBM and Fujifilm demo 580TB tape. Yes it’s a record

IBM and Fujifilm have demonstrated a 580TB capacity tape - 32 times greater than current LTO-9 technology. IBM and...