Containers

Portworx upbeat on container storage revenues

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Portworx, the California container storage startup, today issued a so-called momentum release, boasting of customer and revenue growth. As usual with US startups, the company does not mention actual figures...

Diamanti’s hyperconverged hardware with offload smarts runs container workloads faster

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Interview A set of containers that would need 20 servers to run in a VM-based environment would need fewer than 4 servers to run in a bare-metal Diamanti environment;...

Veeam teams up with Kasten for containerised app backup

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Veeam has joined forces with Kasten to offer cloud-native application backup to its customers. The deal spans sales, marketing and technology. This partnership solves a problem for Veeam - how...

StorageOS reinvents VSAN for containers

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StorageOS, a UK startup, has released version 2 of its eponymous software, which effectively reinvents virtual SANs for containers. Alex Chircop, CEO, said StorageOS 2 delivers production grade storage in...

Infinidat adds K8s support and multi-cloud storage data services

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Infinidat has plunked a CSI (container storage interface) driver into high-end InfiniBox arrays, along with services that support multi-cloud environments. Infinidat VP Erik Kaulberg said in a phone briefing last...

Hitachi Vantara launches all-NVMe E990 flash array

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Hitachi Vantara has added a high performance, all-flash E990 array to the VSP storage line, filling a gap between the high-end 5000 Series and the mid-range F Series. Brian...

NetApp tops customer survey for block and file storage

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NetApp is ranked the top supplier for block and file storage by end users in a survey of European and US companies. Coldago, a small data storage research firm, surveyed...

Life after NKS. NetApp to work with ‘all flavours of Kubernetes’

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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...

Dell debuts oven-ready AI platforms to ease researchers’ setup pain

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Dell EMC announced yesterday a bunch of reference architectures and pre-defined workstation, server and Isilon scale-out filer bundles for data scientists and researchers working in artificial intelligence. In effect these...
Shipping container

Diamanti: K8s workloads run so much faster on our bare metal HCI system

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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...

NetApp cans Kubernetes and Cloud Volumes services on HCI. But what is waiting in...

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NetApp is shuttering NKS on HCI and Cloud Volumes on HCI, with effect from April 20. In their place, the storage giant is readying "some very cool things in...

HPE supports bare metal containers to banish virtualisation ‘tax’

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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...