Google’s Cloud Hyperdisk to bring SAN features to GCP
Google is introducing a SAN-like Cloud Hyperdisk persistent storage instance to its Cloud Platform, with separately tunable capacity and compute so compute-intensive VMs don’t have to be provisioned to...
NetApp introduces Blue XP data management
NetApp is announcing the availability of Blue XP, a software control plane to manage a customer’s data estate in a hybrid on-premises and multi-cloud environment with extensibility beyond NetApp...
Storage news ticker – October 31
Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze has announced better than expected preliminary results for Q3 2022. Revenue is expected to be between $22.0 and $22.1 million versus previous guidance...
Seagate Lyve Cloud embraces Hammerspace
Seagate has integrated Hammerspace’s Global Data Environment (GDE) with its Lyve Cloud storage-as-a-service and Exos Corvault JBOD, as was foreshadowed in May.
Lyve Cloud is an S3-compatible object storage service. The...
Storage news ticker – October 24
Astera Labs demonstrated how datacenter operators can improve performance and reduce TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) with its CXL, PCIe 5.0, and Ethernet Connectivity solutions at the OCP Global...
Frozen in time: Gartner Magic quadrant for primary storage
The latest Gartner MQ for Primary Storage is pretty much the same as a year ago, which was pretty much the same as the year before that, and with...
Azure touts elasticated SAN service
Microsoft's Azure cloud is previewing an Elastic SAN service offering high-availability iSCSI-access block storage.
This storage instance is designed, Microsoft said, “for large scale IO-intensive workloads and top tier databases...
Nutanix rumored to be for sale
Multiple sources report that Nutanix is considering a sale to private equity or an infrastructure supplier.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the software company had received a takeover approach...
Infinidat ups capacity and cyber resiliency
Block array supplier Infinidat says a move to 20TB disk drives has enabled it to increase high-end system capacity by more than 70 percent and add more capacity for...
Pavilion Data – last NVMe over Fabrics flash array startup – has died
NVMe-over Fabrics storage array startup Pavilion Data has crashed.
Update. Co-founder Sundar Kanthadai's epitaph LinkedIn post added. Jan 1, 2023.
The news was released at an all-hands company meeting on October...
Fungible shifts focus to SAN performance, power
DPU startup Fungible has rowed back from its data center composability ambitions, cancelling products to concentrate on its storage cluster technology using all-flash arrays controlled by its DPUs with...
Cirrus Data: Migration for blockheads
Block data migration provides an exact copy of data from a source storage system to a target system. Blocks and Files has written about file and object-level migrations with...