Why container data can lead to backup hell
Containerised applications are heading for production environments. And this is a big problem for storage admins. Unlike current production environments there are no backup data reference frameworks to call...
Commvault: Containers will enable unified data and storage management
Commvault and its new subsidiary Hedvig anticipate future production use of containers, with unified data and storage management.
CEO Sanjay Mirchandani and his chief storage strategist, ex-Hedvig CEO Avinash Lakshman,...
Hammerspace builds ransomware bunker in universal data services extension
Hammerspace has introduced ransomware protection and other security services to its data-as-a-service platform.
The new features span hybrid and multi-cloud environments and are as follows:
Global undelete for files and snapshots...
MemSQL joins cloud database gang
MemSQL has released Helios, a cloud-native version of its eponymous in-memory database.
Helios provides access to MemSQL, running-in memory on AWS and the Google Cloud Platform. Azure support is...
VMware Cloud on Dell EMC is ready for those private moments
Dell Technologies has announced VMware Cloud on Dell EMC (VCDE), a grandly-titled data centre as a service.
This is part of its Dell Technologies Cloud, whereby Dell on-premises infrastructure operate...
Virtual Instruments buys cloud management firm
Virtual Instruments has bought Metricly, the developer of a cloud management tool, for an undisclosed sum.
The company sells Virtual Wisdom, an infrastructure performance monitoring application. With this acquisition, Virtual...
Formulus Black consciously uncouples from Ubuntu
Formulus Black has issued a major release of Forsa that sees the software unbundled from Ubuntu OS and adding support for Optane memory and more CPU sockets...
Hello from the other side. Mangstor completes EXTEN reboot
Mangstor, a pioneer in NVMe-over-Fabrics array technology which crashed and nearly burned, has escaped the undead. The company, now known as EXTEN Technologies, has launched HyperDynamic, a NVMe-oF target...
HPE’s Primera is Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
HPE's newly-launched Primera array is a performance beast - and that’s before it gets NVMe over Fabrics and storage class memory.
HPE staffers told Blocks & Files in a product...
HPE doubles up on HCI and hugs the hybrid cloud
HPE Discover HPE yesterday unveiled two hyperconverged systems, a composability extension and much hybrid cloud activity at at its Discover jamboree in Las Vegas. Let's take a quick...
Reduxio obliviates Kubernetes container silos
Reduxio today announced the Magellan Cloud Data Platform via a jargon-dripped press release.
This is a "native cloud storage and data management platform with its breakthrough microservices architecture that...
Nutanix Karbon copies Kubernetes
Nutanix has built a simplified Kubernetes distribution - called Karbon - for its cloud-native stack.
The company said today its customers will be able to run virtual machine and...