On-prem file storage catching up to object, SAN
Just over half of Blocks & Files readers work for organizations with more than a petabyte of on-premises data and the amount of file storage is increasing considerably more...
Storage news collection – 17 February
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Data protector Commvault has released its latest platform, PR 2023. This is one of Commvault’s long-term support releases with a support lifetime of up to three years. They are...
IBM, HPE fail to make the high-end array top 5
Analyst house DCIG has produced a list of the biggest market movers and shakers in the world of high-end arrays, yet it doesn't include IBM or HPE branded products,...
NetApp adds quad-level cell arrays to AFF range
NetApp has added a more affordable C-Series to its AFF (All-Flash FAS) series of ONTAP arrays, using quad-level cell (QLC) NAND instead of the TLC found throughout the existing...
Turn up the Volumez: Storage orchestrating startup exits stealth
Israeli startup Volumez is loudly exiting stealth with cloud-based storage orchestrating software now available and the appointment of a highly experienced ex-Global Foundries exec as its new CEO, Amir...
Infinidat the front runner for enterprise storage innovation, says GigaOm
A GigaOm Radar chart is classifying Infinidat as the leading supplier of innovative primary storage to enterprises, with NetApp heading up the balanced innovation-platform play area.
Analysts Max Mortillaro and...
NetApp wages ONTAP war on Dell and Pure
NetApp is presenting itself as the leading storage innovator compared to Dell and Pure Storage, with charts showing them lagging behind on 22 out of 25 innovations.
It's put forward...
Pure’s full portfolio-selling sales force
Pure Storage reckons that its sales org should sell the entire product portfolio in its fiscal 2024 and thereby increase their reach.
Update: Email author corrected to Dan FitzSimons, Chief...
A block data migration specialist talks about … block data migration
We had the opportunity to run an email interview with Mark Greenlaw, VP of market strategy at Cirrus Data and asked him questions to find out more about where...
Pure Storage unifies global go-to-market team
Pure Storage has confirmed to B&F that it has broken up its specialist regional FlashBlade sales teams amid the creation of a single global go-to-market organization.
FlashBlade is Pure’s scale-out...
Hitachi Vantara sips mainframe data via Model9
Hitachi Vantara is collaborating with Model9 to feed mainframe data to its HCP and VSP 5000 storage systems and make it available to modern apps running in the hybrid...
VAST Data, Infinidat reportedly amongst 21 storage tech unicorns
There are 21 storage industry startups worth a billion dollars or more – unicorns – according to a CB Insights newsletter.
Update. Note on Coldago's December 2022 storage unicorn list added...