Your occasional storage digest, featuring Supermicro going to the poles, Kioxia flash provisioning and...
5G and edge computing are opening up fresh horizons for servers and storage to provide real time processing with machine learning attributes. Supermicro is on the case, while...
Nvidia secures SwiftStack technology -by buying the company
Nvidia is buying SwiftStack, an object storage software company. Terms were undisclosed but the takeover looks like a white knight move by Nvidia. The company uses SwiftStack technology in-house.
SwiftStack...
VMware embraces Kubernetes with vSphere 7
VMware has added Kubernetes support to run containers and virtual machines simultaneously in the new vSphere release. The virtualization giant can now also offer a single management domain that...
Hitachi Vantara buys Kubernetes storage assets from failed startup
Hitachi Vantara has bought the assets of Containership, a tiny, collapsed six-year-old startup based in Pittsburgh. This gives the data storage giant the means to supply storage to Kubernetes-orchestrated...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...