Weekly digest of storage news featuring IBM, Dell, Box, Toshiba, NVIDIA and Kioxia plus...
The themes this week are containers, flash, flash arrays, enterprise file-based collaboration and disk drives. Everything seems to be selling more, growing more, shipping more, developing more — except...
Kubernetes storage: SmartX’s IOMesh beats Portworx, Longhorn and OpenEBS
China-based SmartX has released a preview of its Kubernetes storage software IOMesh, and it outperforms Pure’s Portworx, Longhorn and OpenEBS on MySQL transactions and latency.
The claims are backed up...
Contain yourselves — Nutanix and Red Hat enjoy a warm embrace
Nutanix and IBM-owned Red Hat are working together with cross-certification of products in a partnership that will strengthen their ability to compete with VMware.
The context is the rise of...
Ionir exec chairman grips cloud-native company tighter, takes on CEO spot
Less than a year after emerging from stealth, Kubernetes data-moving startup Ionir has a new CEO.
Ionir was created from the ashes of Reduxio and uses the latter’s Magellan data...
Coldago survey: users love cloud, cloud-native and flash arrays; secondary storage surprises
An end-user survey by research firm Coldago finds users highly positive about the public cloud, cloud-native development, and all-flash arrays, with some surprising vendor rankings concerning Infinidat, VAST Data...
Storage VAR sentiment tracker: VMware mojo lost, Commvault mojo gained?
A June survey of storage VARs’ views of the market shows growing demand with core infrastructure refreshes as the US economy re-opens and ransomware becomes a top-of-mind concern.
William Blair...
Your occasional storage digest with AWS HealthLake, Delphix, Infrascale, XenData and much more
This week we have AWS doing a neat health sector vertical market data lake offering with partners, Delphix bragging about its growth and diversity hiring credentials, and Infrascale offering...
No hypervisor required: Platform9’s KubeVirt runs containers and VMs together
Managed service provider Platform9 has announced that its open-source KubeVirt software can run containers and virtual machines together, using Kubernetes as the orchestration tool.
Update: Hypervisor requirement clarified, 16 July...
Your occasional storage digest with Backblaze, Infinidat, Robin.io and Windocks
This week’s digest features new cloud backup software and a Chia note from Backblaze, Infinidat suggesting it’s an AIOps supplier, and Robin.io notching up another server deal for its...
GigaOm sees divergence in Kubernetes storage market – between cloud-native and traditional enterprise
GigaOM has produced two Radar reports for cloud-native and enterprise Kubernetes data storage, showing a clear divergence between suppliers – only two are in both camps.
Back in July...
Profile: Cloud-native storage speed and enterprise smarts key for StorageOS
StorageOS supplies software-defined, cloud-native storage — like many other suppliers. It says what sets it apart is its focus on speed, scale and enterprise features.
The company is based in...
NetApp spots a wave of interest in Apache Spark, and buys a Data Mechanic
NetApp has bought Data Mechanics, a neat niche startup with an easy-to-use API on-ramp to running Apache Spark analytics jobs in the three main public clouds.
It reckons Data Mechanics's...