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...
Your occasional enterprise storage digest, featuring Red Hat, Nexsan, and Scality
Nexsan has started up the RoCE road giving faster access to its Assureon archive arrays. IBM-owned Red Hat has added multi-cloud support to its container storage and Scality thinks...
Portworx takes Kubernetes magic carpet ride into enterprise data centres
Portworx, a venture-backed startup that specialises in storage for container deployments, is banking on enterprises adopting Kubernetes to orchestrate all their apps - not just containerised versions.
The company was...
VMware to use MinIO object storage in Kubernetes embrace
VMware looks likely to provision storage to Kubernetes Pods using MinIO open source object storage, if its own slide is to be believed.
But first some background. VMware is embracing...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Amazon, DDN, Intel and more
It’s all about speed this week; Amazon is announcing new stuff before its December Re: Invent conference. DDN has spruced up its arrays and Intel is launching a data...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring HPE, Swiftstack and more
HPE has updated its two composable systems offerings while Swiftstack has upped the scale and performance of its object storage software. There's host of other announcements to check out...
Kasten: We can slay the microservices backup and restore dragon
If you want to back up data used by containerised applications where do you start?
As Chris Evans, a storage consultant, argued in a recent Blocks & Files interview,...
NetApp revenue dip means it has to raise its game
NetApp's annual Insight opens in at Las Vegas today, and sees the company having had two quarters of declining revenues and facing a third. The business faces the ...
Your occasional Storage Digest featuring Qumulo, Seagate, StorageCraft and more
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Qumulo updates software
Scale-out filer supplier Qumulo has streamed out a set of software updates over the past quarter:
Alternate Data Streams - Increase data access across both...
Dell EMC pumps up PowerMax performance
Dell EMC is ramping up performance for its high-end PowerMax arrays by adding support for FC-NVMe and Optane storage-class memory (SCM). Customers will get up to 50 per cent...
A bit of a storage rounder-upper
August is coming to a close. Here is a round-up of storage news for the past few days.
AI-powered personal NAS
Say hello to Latticework’s Amber, a personal NAS that...
HPE buys MapR assets
HPE has scooped up the assets of MapR, the doomed Hadoop vendor, for an undisclosed sum.
MapR ran into severe business problems in its first fiscal 2020 quarter, with customer...