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...
IBM puts on its Red Hat and bags some more storage software
IBM closed its massive $34bn Red Hat acquisition yesterday. The Red Hat portfolio includes five open source storage software products. Let's take a closer look.
For starters, there is...
Reduxio obliviates Kubernetes container silos
Reduxio today announced the Magellan Cloud Data Platform via a jargon-dripped press release.
This is a "native cloud storage and data management platform with its breakthrough microservices architecture that...
Nutanix Karbon copies Kubernetes
Nutanix has built a simplified Kubernetes distribution - called Karbon - for its cloud-native stack.
The company said today its customers will be able to run virtual machine and...
Google plants Anthos hybrid cloud with storage mulch
Google has launched its Anthos hybrid cloud with its Google Kubernetes Engine enabling application container movement between on-premises and the AWS, Azure and GCP clouds.
Google’s Cloud Services Platform has been...
StorPool inches past Optane DIMM-fuelled Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct
StorPool, a Bulgarian storage startup, has matched an Optane DIMM-accelerated Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct 12-node cluster and its 13.7 million IOPS record for a hyperconverged system, by just 1,326...
Portworx nabs $27m investment, updates container storage platform
Portworx, which specialises in storage for container deployments, has secured an extra $27m from investors as it seeks to expand into new global markets. The firm has also updated...
Hammerspace adds Kubernetes support
Hammerspace has added data management facilities to deploy stateful apps across multiple Kubernetes clusters, on premises or in the cloud.
Kubernetes is the popular orchestration tool for managing containers -...
A dash of storage confetti to spray over Sunday and Monday
Here’s another great big batch of storage news items, two dozen or so of them, to give you a flavour of what’s going on apart from the headline items.
Delphix...
Virtuozzo Storage is “like Ceph, only faster”
If you want to have file, block and object storage in one product then Ceph does just that. And so does Virtuozzo Storage - but five times faster, it...
Happy Hedvig gets helping hand from HPE
Profile: Hedvig sells multi-protocol, scale-out, software-defined storage and says it is getting a strong helping hand from HPE to seed its technology in big companies.
Why does HPE want to get...