IBM OEMs Actifio to create virtual data pipelines
IBM is OEM’ing Actifio’s Virtual Data Pipeline technology to supply production data copies to downstream users for faster application development and analytics.
IBM has confirmed the agreement with us and...
SoftIron, a proprietary ARM hardware company, loves open source Ceph
Interview SoftIron is developing and building its proprietary ARM-powered HyperDrive storage hardware while strongly promoting Ceph open source storage software.
It seems an unusual combination. SoftIron also thinks Ceph will fulfil...
External storage sales fall behind in bull market
IDC's Q3 2018 worldwide storage tracker shows the overall storage market is booming except for external, shared array / filer technology.
The total storage numbers reported are summarised in...
Datera goes Churchward
Startup Datera has a new CEO - exec chairman Guy Churchward who joined the board just four months ago.
Datera provides block-access, scale-out, server-based storage with its Elastic Data Fabric...
Self-driving cars! The Quantum of some solace for ailing tape vendor
CEO Jamie Lerner is taking Quantum into vertical markets with a front and central focus on StorNext, its scale out filesystem manager. The first example is a mobile storage...
Chris Mellor’s Rough Guide to the Storage Planet
The storage industry can be bewildering, with so many hardware and software technologies and overlapping products. How to make sense of it all?
Let's think of computer storage as...
HPE stuffs Optane into 3PAR arrays to speed Oracle workloads
HPE has announced Optane caching for its 3PAR arrays and this makes them chew through Oracle database workloads faster.
According to HPE, "92% of all 3PAR install base reads...
Lightbits Labs and its quest to run NVMe over cheaper networks
Profile Lightbits Labs claims to have invented NVMe/TCP. This is a big claim but the early-stage startup has demonstrable product technology for running fast access NVMe-over-fabrics (NVMe-oF) across standard data centre LANs...
StorPool speeds up and joins the Arm army
StorPool, the Virtual SAN software vendor, has added IBM POWER and Arm64 server support in a software update.
New features in V18.02 include more integrations, extended hardware compatibility, hardware acceleration,...
Flash and trash. What’s the big idea about two-tier storage?
The storage analyst Enrico Signoretti popularised the term 'flash and trash' in 2015, to "describe a trend of two-tier storage built on latency-sensitive, flash-based arrays on one side and...
Regarding NetApp’s strong second quarter
Analysis NetApp turned in a good second fiscal quarter 2019, though its all-flash array revenue growth rate slowed.
It spent a lot of earnings call time emphasising its Elements hyperconverged infrastructure...
Ceph backers apply Foundation in storage makeover
Ceph, the open source storage software platform, has gotten its very own foundation. Just like Linux.
The Ceph Foundation is organised as a directed fund under the Linux Foundation. It...