NetApp moves HQ to diaphanous building in San Jose
NetApp is moving its headquarters a few miles south from Sunnyvale CA to central San Jose. The company is sub-leasing 700 Santana Row from Splunk. and...
Ionir frees data from its location trap
Profile Last month Blocks & Files interviewed Ionir marketing head Kirby Wadsworth and CEO Jacob Cherian to find out more about this storage startup.
Storage product comparisons on the rack
Analysis. Comparing the performance of storage products is bedevilled by the lack of benchmark testing for the three main storage storage access methods; blocks, files and objects....
VAST Data exits hardware business, pivots to software subscriptions
VAST Data, the high performance storage startup, is to stop selling its own hardware. It will concentrate instead on selling software on a subscription basis, and...
StorMagic branches out into digital asset management
StorMagic has bought the assets of SoleraTec, a small California video storage company - its second acquisition in 12 months.
Update: Hans O'Sullivan comments...
Silk: NetApp is slower than us on AWS
Silk, the storage array software vendor, claims its AWS numbers for IOPS, latency and bandwidth are superior to NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP performance on the public cloud.
Exclusive: Datera has gone bust
Datera, the high-end storage software startup, has gone into liquidation. All of the company's assets are being transferred to the assignee of the creditors, according to a...
Hello Azure. Pure Cloud Block Store is here
Pure Storage has made its Cloud Block Store available on the Azure Marketplace.
Cloud Block Store is the cloudified version of Purity OS, the...
ATTO re-invents the RAM Disk with block storage device
ATTO is prepping new generation RAM disk technology in the shape of its SiliconDisk storage appliance. “This is not addressable memory. This is storage. It's a block...
Dell powers up hybrid cloud storage services with Faction
Dell Technologies has expanded its partnership with Faction, the US multi-cloud managed services provider, to offer two new storage and data protection services.
Announcing...
Equinix data centres offer Pure storage as a service
Pure Storage is opening a new front in the cloud edge storage market, with data centre operator Equinix offering Pure-as-a-Service to its customers.
Equinix...
How to stop El Capitan’s thousands of blades from overwhelming the SAN
The El Capitan exascale supercomputer will use HPE-designed 'Rabbit' near node local storage to get data faster to its many processing cores from a backend SAN.
Red Hat supports high-availability apps in AWS and Azure
Red Hat Linux running in the AWS and Azure public clouds now supports high-availability and clustered applications with its Resilient Storage Add-On (RSAO) software. This means apps...
StorCentric gets out its first Violin, an entry-level NVMe all-flash array
StorCentric, the mini data storage conglomerate, has launched its first Violin-branded system since buying the company's assets last October.
This is the Violin QV1020,...
Zadara buys NeoKarm, jumps full stack into the private cloud
Zadara, the enterprise storage as a service vendor, has gone full-stack by acquiring a compute-as-a-service startup called NeoKarm.
Zadara first teamed up with NeoKarm,...
Datera CEO Guy Churchward resigns: ‘Natural time to move on’
Datera CEO and exec chairman Guy Churchward has resigned, citing health reasons. His colleague chief Product Officer Narasimha Valiveti - known as 'VNR' - has left the...
Silk’s Azure speed is based on Ephemeral OS disks
Silk gets crazy fast Azure speed by using and protecting Azure’s fast and unprotected ephemeral OS disks - incurring no storage cost.
Ephemeral OS...
HPE heralds move to speedier SANS with faster Fibre Channel
HPE has introduced built-in telemetry and self-healing SAN features in the seventh generation of B-series Fibre Channel SAN directors, switches and HBAs. It has also doubled their...