Storage news ticker – May 18
Cloud and backup storage service provider Backblaze has announced an improved channel program. It will drive joint marketing activities, provide co-branded collateral, and establish market development funds...
Dell supercharges storage hardware underlying its software-defined storage
Dell is raising its storage hardware and software game with updates to its PowerMax, PowerStore, PowerScale and PowerFlex systems that increase capacity, performance, automation, data mobility and...
Project Alpine: native Dell storage services in the public cloud and CloudOps
Dell's Project Alpine could open the door to the big cloud service providers adopting hybrid multi-cloud as a reality and porting their software to each other's environments.
AWS launches IceLake Nitro SSD instances
AWS has added fast compute instances called I4i using Intel Xeon IceLake servers and 30TB of NVMe Nitro SSD storage.
These Nitro SSDs and...
Infinidat accelerates high-end array
High-end enterprise array supplier Infinidat has added a faster top-end system with boosted hardware and software, increased cyber-resilience, and enhanced AIOps and DevOps capabilities.
SingleStore will measure your app’s ‘data intensity’
SingleStore is introducing a "Data Intensity Index" to help companies understand how data-intensive their RDBMS applications are and how SingleStore’s database can cope with high data intensity...
Storage News Ticker – 22 April
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Unstructured NAS and object data migrator and manager Datadobi has signed Climb Channel Solutions to distribute its products to resellers and solution providers...
Pure Storage wants to work with data gravity, not against it
Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo expressed two noteworthy views in an interview with Blocks & Files – that hyperconverged infrastructure doesn’t exist inside hyperscaler datacenters, and that...
Storage news ticker – 12 April
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In-cloud Saas data protector Clumio announced news of its Clumio Protect for Amazon DynamoDB, with granular recovery, improved audit readiness and reduced TCO...
Infinidat sticks to its guns for on-premises growth
Infinidat will strengthen its products with access to a wider range of client protocols, as it sticks to its on-premises high-end storage focus – but not to...
Dell storage dives into Equinix colo private cloud pools
Equinix is selling Dell managed storage, hyperconverged and data protection products as-a-service from its datacenters.
The products include Dell PowerStore (all-flash), VxRail and PowerProtect...
Networkless Pliops XDP is not a DPU
Israeli startup Pliops wants to replace the existing block interface to SSDs, based on disk drive-era thinking, with key:value store technology that enables vastly more efficient SSD...
MinIO says S3 is primary storage on the public cloud
Can an object storage system function as primary storage? The general assumption is that primary storage is the fastest storage you can get to support important applications...
VMware adds cloud file store on AWS
VMware is previewing a managed Cloud Flex Storage file service for VMware Cloud on AWS, based on its Datrium acquisition.
Cloud Flex Storage is...
NetApp is increasing targets thanks to CloudOps biz
The Cloud Operations (CloudOps) business looks so good for NetApp that the company has increased its overall revenue targets.
This was revealed at a...
Nyriad releases SAN arrays with CPU+GPU controllers
Newcomer Nyriad has launched two SAN array systems with combined CPU+GPU controllers to provide fast recovery from drive failures and a maximum sustained IO rate of 18GB/sec...
HPE adds block storage to GreenLake
HPE is adding block storage to its GreenLake cloud-style IT subscription service along with backup and recovery, an existing parallel file system in a new GreenLake for...
Verge.io – an HCI curiosity shop survivor
Verge.io's technology creates nested, multi-tenant, virtual datacenters for enterprises and MSPs from hyperconverged infrastructure servers. Back in the HCI glory days before 2018, it was known as...