HPE GreenLake spreads its storage wings
HPE has expanded its public cloud-like GreenLake subscription offering under a Private Cloud Enterprise banner with eight new services: backup and recovery, block storage, compute operations management, data fabric,...
Lightbits Labs inhales $42 million in funding
Lightbits Labs, which builds software-powered NVMe/TCP-accessed storage servers, has pulled in $42 million in new funding, taking its total funding to $105.3 million.
Update: Funding history revised; 30 June 2022.
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iXsystems adds enterprise features to scale-out NAS
iXsystems' TrueNAS, the popular storage software, is getting high availability and SMB clustering for the enterprise.
TrueNAS says it has more than 1 million installations and >10EB of capacity under...
Storage news ticker – June 23
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Data protection and security business Acronis has sponsored another sporting team: Scotland's Hibernian FC. Acronis will become become Hibernian FC's Principal Cyber Protection Partner. It will be supported by...
Boffins design NAND and persistent memory in single SSD reference architecture
Academic researchers have designed a reference architecture SSD, with both NAND and persistent memory inside, for use in database logging and replication.
Such logging is desired for database recoverability and...
DiRAC’s Liqid pours GPUs into servers for cosmological research simulation runs
Durham University’s DiRAC supercomputer is getting composable GPU resources to model the evolution of the universe, courtesy of Liqid and its Matrix composability software.
The UK’s Durham University DiRAC (Distributed...
Storage news ticker – 10 June
Backblaze says it is the first independent cloud provider to offer a cloud replication service which helps businesses apply the principles of 3-2-1 data protection within a cloud-first or...
Intel planning big Lightbits NVMe/TCP storage push
A IT Press Tour briefing by Lightbits Labs in San Jose told us good things about Lightbits's technology but a great unseen presence started becoming more visible throughout the...
Pure Storage reworks Evergreen subscription service
Pure Storage has reworked its Evergreen subscription to provide a more coherent set of services and optimizations that can extend across a customer's entire fleet of Pure arrays.
There are...
NetApp crams ransomware, single subscription features and more into hybrid multi-cloud
NetApp has announced improved ransomware protection, hybrid cloud storage in a single subscription, unified management in a single user interface, and closer collaboration with VMware to help transition workloads...
Storage news ticker – June 4
AWS’s Elastic Block Store (EBS) now supports Elastic Volumes and Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) for io2 Block Express. That means you can use Elastic Volumes to dynamically increase the...
The four storage horsemen of the epochalypse
Forgive the headline pun but apocalypse it is not. We have compared the storage growth rates for Dell, HPE, NetApp, and Pure Storage and spotted standout differences with HPE...