Gartner: So long HCI MQs, hello full-stack HCI software
Gartner has kissed the HCI appliance market goodbye. Its analysts have taken a fresh look at the HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI) market, and moved away from an appliance approach, looking...
Enterprises need one hybrid cloud operating model to rule them all, says Nutanix
Nutanix’ fifth Enterprise Cloud Index survey has revealed that enterprises need a cloud operating model with a consistent environment that covers on-premises edge and core data centers along with...
Startup Finout offers FinOps to stop SaaS spend disasters
Sticking an Ops on the tail end of abbreviated things like development and data and finance is cool in these containerized cloud-native times, as in DevOps and DataOps and...
Quantum enters storage software with Myriad
Quantum has written a unified and scaleout file and object storage software stack called Myriad, designing it for flash drives and using Kubernetes-orchestrated microservices to lower latency and increase...
Rookout: our DevOps tools help squash bugs faster
Israeli startup Rookout supplies dynamic instrumentation for cloud-native apps that it says lets developers find and fix bugs faster, and is used by developers at storage companies Backblaze, NetApp...
Storage news ticker – April 27
The Active Archive Alliance has announced its 2023 State of the Industry Report: Effective Data Management Through Active Archives. It's not yet available on the alliance's website but we...
CloudCasa bets on Velero Kubernetes backup
Open source Velero has recorded more than 100 million Docker pulls – making it among the most popular Kubernetes app backup software, says CloudCasa, which supports it.
CloudCasa is...
Competitors cry foul over CloudCasa claims of Velero dominance
CloudCasa this month claimed that open source Velero backup was far more prevalent in the Kubernetes data protection market than Portworx, Trilio or Kasten by Veeam. We note that...
SmartX releases IOMesh Kubernetes-native storage software
SmartX has released 1.0 of its IOMesh Kubernetes-native storage software.
Update. IOMesh is not open-source. 26 June 2023.
Beijing-based SmartX produces both hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software and IOMesh containerised storage software...
Storage news ticker – June 23
Real-time data platform supplier Aerospike has unveiled a new graph database with native support for the Gremlin query language. Aerospike claims today’s graph databases fail to perform at scale...
Virtuozzo pitches MSPs an alternative cloud
The Virtuozzo Hybrid Cloud offers managed service providers (MSPs) a set of cloud services it claims they can sell at at lower cost than those of the three cloud...
Tintri launches software-only VMstore and managed infrastructure service
DDN’s Tintri unit has unveiled a software-only rendition of its VMstore product and now offers VMstore through a managed infrastructure service framework.
Historically, Tintri's VM-aware VMstore operated exclusively on its...