HPE supports bare metal containers to banish virtualisation ‘tax’
HPE’s generally-available Container Platform software, launched this week, runs containers on non-virtualised data centre servers or the public cloud - and supports virtualised servers too, if customers prefer.
Kumar...
Red Hat speeds and scales Ceph object storage
Red Hat has made Ceph faster, scale out to a billion-plus objects, and added more automation for admins.
Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 provides a 2x acceleration of write-intensive object storage...
Hitachi Vantara buys Kubernetes storage assets from failed startup
Hitachi Vantara has bought the assets of Containership, a tiny, collapsed six-year-old startup based in Pittsburgh. This gives the data storage giant the means to supply storage to Kubernetes-orchestrated...
VMware embraces Kubernetes with vSphere 7
VMware has added Kubernetes support to run containers and virtual machines simultaneously in the new vSphere release. The virtualization giant can now also offer a single management domain that...
Nvidia secures SwiftStack technology -by buying the company
Nvidia is buying SwiftStack, an object storage software company. Terms were undisclosed but the takeover looks like a white knight move by Nvidia. The company uses SwiftStack technology in-house.
SwiftStack...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Supermicro going to the poles, Kioxia flash provisioning and...
5G and edge computing are opening up fresh horizons for servers and storage to provide real time processing with machine learning attributes. Supermicro is on the case, while...
Google hybridises six storage vendors for the Anthos Kubernetes cloud
Google has announced the Anthos Ready Storage program for third-party on-premises storage suppliers.
Six vendors have qualified for the initial line-up: Dell EMC, HPE, NetApp, Portworx, Pure Storage and...
Stick that in your container: MayaData gets $26m, DataCore tech and resell boost for...
Developer of container-attached storage for Kubernetes MayaData has been given access to DataCore technology while DataCore gets a piece of MayaData’s action, in a funding-related dance valued at $26m.
Evan...
Cohesity loses cohesion: Rapidly diversifying firm has an identity problem
You thought you understood Cohesity well enough. It supplies hyperconverged secondary storage. It is basically 'doing a Nutanix' on the secondary storage market and converging the file use cases...
Cloudian goes Splunk and Hitachi buys ML metadata firm
This week in storage, we have an acquisition, three momentum releases, Cloudian going Splunk, Emmy awards for Isilon and Quantum, plus some funding news, people moves, two customer wins...
Newbie container app data wrangling firm Kasten climbs mountain with K10
For anyone wanting to code a data protection app for containers, Kubernetes (K8s) is a great big help. Because it orchestrates container instantiation and operations, it knows everything about...
HyperFlex becomes mates with K8s: No need to go through vSphere first
Cisco’s hyperconverged HyperFlex system has been re-engineered to support containerisation with native Kubernetes and Intersight cloud-based management.
The rationale is that users need to be able to move apps between...