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NetApp makes its big Kubernetes play with Astra

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NetApp today officially released NetApp Astra, the company's data management suite for Kubernetes workloads. Astra is a SaaSy NetApp-managed service that protects, recovers and moves containerised applications. There is...

Mayastor is fastest open source storage, Intel says. So where are the numbers?

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Intel declares “OpenEBS Mayastor is the fastest open source storage for Kubernetes,” but the documentation lacks any details that could allow comparison with other Kubernetes storage products suchs ...

NetApp embraces K8s for hybrid cloud apps management, cans HCI appliance

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NetApp is waving goodbye to the NetApp HCI appliance, launched only in 2017. The data storage vendor wants customers instead to join it in the hybrid cloud, using its...

Your occasional storage digest with Arcserve, StorageCraft, DDN, and more

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Old Arcserve and young StorageCraft - both second or third tier data protection companies - are merging. Are they huddling together for warmth or is it a growth play?...

Red Hat OpenShift now does container storage backup

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Red Hat has teamed up with three container backup suppliers to integrate their services with the company's OpenShift Kubernetes distribution. The Red Hat-certified backup products for OpenShift container...

Hitachi Vantara dives into the Kubernetes sea

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Hitachi Vantara has launched Hitachi Kubernetes Service (HKS), covering the three main public clouds and on-premises data centres. The company bought the assets of Containership, a tiny collapsed startup, in...
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Red Hat buys StackRox to bolster OpenShift K8s security

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Red Hat is buying Stackrox, a Kubernetes-native security startup, for an undisclosed sum. The company intends to add it to Red Hat OpenShift but said Stackrox will continue...

Your occasional storage digest with Cisco Hyperflex, SoftIron, and more

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2021 has started with a bang... but let's talk about data storage. In this week's news roundup we feature Cisco, Backup Assist and SoftIron. Also there are a flurry...

Storageless storage is the ‘answer’ to Kubernetes data challenges

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NetApp and Hammerspace have recently begun talking about 'storageless storage'. No, it's not an oxymoron, but a concept that takes a leaf from the serverless compute playbook. For NetApp,...

What does AWS Outposts mean for on-premises storage vendors?

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Amazon late last year launched AWS Outposts, a fully managed service based on a converged infrastructure rack, including server, storage, networking, and AWS cloud software services. The appliance is...

Project Karavi is Dell’s way to extend Kubernetes CSI

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Dell has unveiled Project Karavi, an initiative to add enterprise storage features to the Kubernetes CSI interface. K8s CSI is being used by enterprises for mission-critical workloads such as...
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Portworx and Mayastor Kubernetes block storage flies highest

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A study of Kubernetes storage supplier performance has revealed that efficiency of storage code is exposed in cloud-native environments. This has a knock-on effect on performance. In a recently updated...