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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...