Pure Storage hires new sales boss
Paul Mountford, Pure Storage's sales chief, is leaving after a year at the company. His replacement, Dominick Delfino, a VMware and Cisco veteran, starts immediately.
Before you go thinking the...
Linbit builds Kubernetes on-ramp for WD OpenFlex
Western Digital’s composable OpenFlex flash storage system now supports Kubernetes storage, courtesy of Linbit's LINSTOR software.
OpenFlex is a physical chassis, containing SSDs or disk drives, which is addressed as...
Big Blue’s Red Hat shift towards containers
A red shift for astronomers occurs when light from distant objects shifts from the blue side of the spectrum towards the red end. That’s happening with Big Blue as...
NetApp plays Spot the difference in cloud services build-out
NetApp today issued a fistful of public cloud announcements at the NetApp Insight conference, covering containerised app deployment, predictive monitoring and Windows VDI.
On the Spot
The new containerised app deployment...
Your occasional storage digest featuring Diamanti, HYCU, TrueNAS and more
Two Kubernetes-related news stories in this week's storage news round up. Diamanti has debuted a software-only offering and Robin.io has upgraded its core offering and introduced a full-featured but...
Your occasional storage digest: Backblaze anti-ransomware, Fibre Channel speed clarifications, OpenDrives NAS clusters, K8s...
This week has been busy with storage news, like last week and the one before that. Ransomware protection has become a top-of-mind CIO concern and - among others -...
How to evaluate Kubernetes data protection
How do you evaluate Kubernetes data protection vendors? According to the GigaOm, there is currently no framework to do this. So the tech research firm is developing a...
Veeam embraces container backup by buying Kasten
Veeam is buying Kasten, a Kubernetes-orchestrated container data protection startup, for $150m in cash and stock.
Kasten's K10 software will continue to be available independently and Veeam will also integrate...
Dell bakes VMware support into VXRail, ObjectScale and PowerProtect systems
Dell Technologies has added a raft of VMware-support across its Cloud Platform, VxRail, ObjectScale and PowerProtect systems.
The updates, announced today at VMworld 2020, include:
Cloud Platform and VxRail hyperconverged systems...
Red Hat shifts automated data pipeline into OpenShift
Red Hat today released OpenShift Container Storage 4.5 to deliver Kubernetes services for cloud-native applications via an automated data pipeline.
Mike Piech, Red Hat cloud storage and data services...
Druva pushes Kubernetes container protection into beta
Druva is adding backup for Kubernetes-orchestrated containers, as it aims to be a one-stop shop for data protection needs
The service, currently in beta, will provide application-consistent data protection, including...
Ionir: let us be your Kubernetes data mover
Ionir, a software-defined storage startup, came out of stealth today with the news that it has bagged $11m in A-series funding.
The company has developed Data Teleport, a container storage...