Your occasional storage digest with Toshiba drives, Excelero and more
There’s life in the mid-range capacity disk drive yet as Toshiba introduces a line of sub 10TB drives that don’t use sealed enclosures full of helium gas. Data protector...
NetApp plays Spot the difference in cloud services build-out
NetApp today issued a fistful of public cloud announcements at the NetApp Insight conference, covering containerised app deployment, predictive monitoring and Windows VDI.
On the Spot
The new containerised app deployment...
Your occasional storage digest featuring Diamanti, HYCU, TrueNAS and more
Two Kubernetes-related news stories in this week's storage news round up. Diamanti has debuted a software-only offering and Robin.io has upgraded its core offering and introduced a full-featured but...
NetApp adds S3 to ONTAP, SW-only SolidFire and pay-as-you-grow pricing
NetApp has added a dose of cloudification to its product lines with a series of announcements covering its core ONTAP software, SolidFire all-flash array software, and Keystone subscription offering.
The...
Your occasional storage digest: Backblaze anti-ransomware, Fibre Channel speed clarifications, OpenDrives NAS clusters, K8s...
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 -...
How to evaluate Kubernetes data protection
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...