Containers

Your occasional storage digest: Backblaze anti-ransomware, Fibre Channel speed clarifications, OpenDrives NAS clusters, K8s...

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This week has been busy with storage news, like last week and the one before that. Ransomware protection has become a top-of-mind CIO concern and - among others -...
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How to evaluate Kubernetes data protection

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How do you evaluate Kubernetes data protection vendors? According to the GigaOm, there is currently no framework to do this. So the tech research firm is developing a...

Dell bakes VMware support into VXRail, ObjectScale and PowerProtect systems

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Dell Technologies has added a raft of VMware-support across its Cloud Platform, VxRail, ObjectScale and PowerProtect systems. The updates, announced today at VMworld 2020, include: Cloud Platform and VxRail hyperconverged systems...

Red Hat shifts automated data pipeline into OpenShift

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Red Hat today released OpenShift Container Storage 4.5 to deliver Kubernetes services for cloud-native applications via an automated data pipeline.  Mike Piech, Red Hat cloud storage and data services...

Druva pushes Kubernetes container protection into beta

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Druva is adding backup for Kubernetes-orchestrated containers, as it aims to be a one-stop shop for data protection needs The service, currently in beta, will provide application-consistent data protection, including...

Pure Storage buys Portworx for $370m

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Pure Storage is buying Portworx, the container storage software startup, for $370m in cash. Update. Pure Storage says it is buying Portworx. 16 September 2020. By acquiring Portworx, Pure is obtaining...

VMware adds files, objects and more in vSAN two-step

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VMware is extending Kubernetes capabilities by offering third party integration hooks to vSAN. The company today also announced the next vSAN update will add file services and Active Directory...

NetApp aims to make ONTAP Kubernetes-native

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An internal effort to containerise NetApp's ONTAP is leading to a cloud-native version of the operating system. NetApp’s Project Astra is focused on developing application data lifecycle management for Kubernetes-orchestrated...

Robin.io automates stateful Kubernetes migrations

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Kubernetes enables stateless containerised app movement between clouds but not stateful ones. Each cloud has its own method of automation, deployment, and monitoring for stateful apps - and that...

Nutanix hooks Calico into Karbon 2.1 Kubernetes management tool

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Nutanix's goal for Karbon, a management app for Kubernetes, is to provide an integrated all-in-one framework to build and run containerised apps. That way, customers can go cloud-native with...

Commvault integrates Hedvig with HyperScale X appliance

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Commvault has rejigged its product lines to better match market needs. The company has separated components for data protection, disaster recovery and data management tasks, and has integrated Hedvig...

Kubernetes is in a bit of state about state

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Kubernetes is "four to five years away" from being a stable distribution capable of running stateful apps, according to Redis Labs chief product officer Alvin Richards. Enterprise IT applications...