Meet Arrikto and its Rok container storage backup software
Arrikto, a small California startup, has devised a form of shared storage for Kubernetes-orchestrated workloads. It claims customers can save 64 per cent of AWS costs by running a...
Portworx upbeat on container storage revenues
Portworx, the California container storage startup, today issued a so-called momentum release, boasting of customer and revenue growth.
As usual with US startups, the company does not mention actual figures...
StorageOS reinvents VSAN for containers
StorageOS, a UK startup, has released version 2 of its eponymous software, which effectively reinvents virtual SANs for containers.
Alex Chircop, CEO, said StorageOS 2 delivers production grade storage in...
Infinidat’s founding CEO does a Larry and steps aside
Seventy-year-old Infinidat founder and CEO Moshe Yanai is stepping aside to become Chief Technology Evangelist, and has appointed a pair of co-CEOs to run the business.
Yanai founded Infinidat in...
Infinidat adds K8s support and multi-cloud storage data services
Infinidat has plunked a CSI (container storage interface) driver into high-end InfiniBox arrays, along with services that support multi-cloud environments.
Infinidat VP Erik Kaulberg said in a phone briefing last...
NetApp unveils Project Astra for Kubernetes love-in
NetApp today launched Project Astra, an initiative aimed at developing application data lifecycle management for Kubernetes-orchestrated containerised applications.
This is to be NetApp’s replacement for the now-cancelled NetApp Kubernetes Service...
Mainframe demand (again) boosts IBM storage sales
IBM has reported good storage revenue growth in the first 2020 quarter as robust demand for the System z15 mainframe carried DS8900 array sales in its wake.
The Register has...
Kaminario ports storage software to the public clouds
Kaminario has adapted its VisionOS storage software for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform - and claims it offers cheaper storage and more services than the cloud vendors' native...
Pure and Kasten integrate orchestrators for containerised backup
Pure Storage has teamed up with Kasten to integrate its storage arrays with Kasten's containerised app backup.
The news is detailed in a Pure Storage blog co-authored by Pure principal...
Your occasional enterprise storage digest, featuring Commvault, Nutanix, HYCU, MariaDB and more
Companies in this week's enterprise storage news roundup, cover encryption, replication, tiering, object support, snapshots, the public cloud and more. Let's start alphabetically.
Commvault upgrades for cloud and simpler data...
Life after NKS. NetApp to work with ‘all flavours of Kubernetes’
NetApp is developing its hyperconverged platform to deliver an automated Kubernetes facility. The storage giant has told us to expect a "significant announcement in the Spring".
Longer term, NetApp will...
Diamanti: K8s workloads run so much faster on our bare metal HCI system
Profile: Diamanti has built a bare metal Kubernetes container platform with persistent all-flash storage.
The California startup was founded in 2014 by three Cisco UCS server veterans and has...