Looking through the Veeam lens: hybrid IT arrives, containers and SaaS app protection needed
A snapshot of the IT environment provided by a Veeam survey shows that hybrid IT has become reality, cloud disaster recovery is difficult and a minority interest, and Office...
Weekly digest of storage news featuring IBM, Dell, Box, Toshiba, NVIDIA and Kioxia plus...
The themes this week are containers, flash, flash arrays, enterprise file-based collaboration and disk drives. Everything seems to be selling more, growing more, shipping more, developing more — except...
Contain yourselves — Nutanix and Red Hat enjoy a warm embrace
Nutanix and IBM-owned Red Hat are working together with cross-certification of products in a partnership that will strengthen their ability to compete with VMware.
The context is the rise of...
Ionir exec chairman grips cloud-native company tighter, takes on CEO spot
Less than a year after emerging from stealth, Kubernetes data-moving startup Ionir has a new CEO.
Ionir was created from the ashes of Reduxio and uses the latter’s Magellan data...
Your occasional storage digest with AWS HealthLake, Delphix, Infrascale, XenData and much more
This week we have AWS doing a neat health sector vertical market data lake offering with partners, Delphix bragging about its growth and diversity hiring credentials, and Infrascale offering...
No hypervisor required: Platform9’s KubeVirt runs containers and VMs together
Managed service provider Platform9 has announced that its open-source KubeVirt software can run containers and virtual machines together, using Kubernetes as the orchestration tool.
Update: Hypervisor requirement clarified, 16 July...
Your occasional storage digest with Backblaze, Infinidat, Robin.io and Windocks
This week’s digest features new cloud backup software and a Chia note from Backblaze, Infinidat suggesting it’s an AIOps supplier, and Robin.io notching up another server deal for its...
GigaOm sees divergence in Kubernetes storage market – between cloud-native and traditional enterprise
GigaOM has produced two Radar reports for cloud-native and enterprise Kubernetes data storage, showing a clear divergence between suppliers – only two are in both camps.
Back in July...
Profile: Cloud-native storage speed and enterprise smarts key for StorageOS
StorageOS supplies software-defined, cloud-native storage — like many other suppliers. It says what sets it apart is its focus on speed, scale and enterprise features.
The company is based in...
PowerFlex, Dell EMC’s other HCI system, supports more Nvidia GPUs and Oracle KVM hypervisor
Dell EMC has updated its PowerFlex software, widening GPU and hypervisor support and improving resiliency and manageability.
PowerFlex is Dell EMC’s scale-out virtual SAN and hyper-converged system with multi-hypervisor support,...
NetApp spots a wave of interest in Apache Spark, and buys a Data Mechanic
NetApp has bought Data Mechanics, a neat niche startup with an easy-to-use API on-ramp to running Apache Spark analytics jobs in the three main public clouds.
It reckons Data Mechanics's...
Robin in the ’hood — Robin.io gets funding for 5G and enterprise cloud-native storage...
Cloud-native storage startup Robin.io has gained $38m in VC funding to continue its push into enterprise storage and 5G edge setup automation.
Robin.io is different from other players punting storage...