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...
FalconStor intros container-based archiving
FalconStor has announced StorSafe, a persistent data storage container for enterprises. The software integrates with legacy backup and archive software and processes, and is compatible with cloud- and S3...
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...