Infinidat on CXL, SMR disk drives and green IT
Blocks & Files spoke to Infinidat CEO Phil Bullinger recently, who gave us some insight into Infinidat's 2022 business and its hopes for 2023. We looked at Infinidat's stance...
Unifabrix CXL memory node boosts core use
Israeli startup Unifabrix demonstrated its Smart Memory Node at SC22 and we wrote an initial account of its technology here. The intent was to demonstrate remote memory pooling across a...
NetApp appoints new CMO
NetApp has appointed software and cloud-focused Gabrielle Boko as its new CMO to replace the departing James Whitemore.
Whitemore, NetApp EVP and CMO from November 2019 until this month, and...
Verge.io hires StorONE exec as marketing chief
Virtualized datacenter startup Verge.io has appointed George Crump as its first chief marketing officer.
Crump was, until the end of 2022, CMO at StorONE before a series of executive changes...
VMware and Nutanix still dominating HCI market
IDC has resumed putting out hyperconverged system supplier revenue and market share numbers after after a three-quarter gap and not much has changed since the end of 2020 and...
Only 50% of Israel’s startup unicorns are really unicorns: report
Half of Israel’s 2022 tech startup unicorns are no longer worth a billion dollars or more. That’s the conclusion of Viola, an Israeli private equity company, in its 2022...
Linbit pushes DRBD-based software as SAN replacement
Savvy Linux users can provide SAN services to physical, virtual and containerized applications without buying a SAN product, by using LinBit open-source software based on DRBD, which is included...
Storage news ticker – 3 January 2023
Acronis' latest cyberthreats and trends report for the second half of 2022 has found that phishing and the use of MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) fatigue attacks are on the rise....
DataOS company TMDC moves into view, but some details are missing
A startup called The Modern Data Company has appeared with DataOS, a data operating system aimed at unifying data silos, old and new, and giving users a self-service programmable...
StorONE reshuffles executive team
Multi-purpose storage system supplier StorONE has made some exec changes.
Chief revenue officer Chris Noordyke has been promoted to general manager, and Jenn Null, head of demand generation, is now...
Storage titans face Turkish competitor inspired by VAST Data’s architecture
NGX Storage, a Turkish storage outfit, is developing a scale-out NVMe block storage array with a top-level hardware architecture similar to VAST Data's Universal Storage scale-out filer array.
Privately owned...
Why hybrid data storage needs a single managed console
Sponsored Feature: Data is often analogised as the ‘lifeforce’ of the modern enterprise as it circulates around the body corporate, from analytics teams to business units, sparking technological innovation...