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...
IBM makes Spectrum Scale play nicely with software containers
IBM has announced Spectrum Scale file system support for containers. The release means that companies building containerised IT environments can use their existing Spectrum Scale storage systems as opposed...
Datera goes Churchward
Startup Datera has a new CEO - exec chairman Guy Churchward who joined the board just four months ago.
Datera provides block-access, scale-out, server-based storage with its Elastic Data Fabric...
18 storage news bites pack very pleasant crunch
Eighteen storage news bites today for your delectation. four are light bites and 14 are snacks. Cloudiness, containerisation, data backup and predictions feature in the light bites section of...
StorPool speeds up and joins the Arm army
StorPool, the Virtual SAN software vendor, has added IBM POWER and Arm64 server support in a software update.
New features in V18.02 include more integrations, extended hardware compatibility, hardware acceleration,...
Hurrah! Single container orchestrator plugin interface for storage
Storage suppliers wanting to provide storage to containers can heave a sigh of relief; the Container Storage Interface (CSI) v1.0.0 has been released and is available on GitHub.
It is...
NetApp acqui-hires Kubernetes shop StackPointCloud
NetApp has bought StackPointCloud, a Kubernetes-as-a-Service provider, gaining instant Kubernetes creds and enhancing its multi-cloud capabilities.
StackPoint was founded in 2014 and is based in Seattle. It developed a control...