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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
IBM parades ESS 3000 appliance in Big Storage Day Out
Twice a year IBM blitzes out a bunch of storage hardware releases. Today was once of the twice.
The information overload is overwhelming but IBM's main messages for today's announcements...
Kasten: We can slay the microservices backup and restore dragon
If you want to back up data used by containerised applications where do you start?
As Chris Evans, a storage consultant, argued in a recent Blocks & Files interview,...
Scale Computing: Idea that customers should run multiple edge compute platforms is ‘absurd’
Hyperconverged system vendor Scale Computing has an edge computing system to sell and wants to define edge computing in its own way.
The Edge Computing concept needs simplifying,...
VAST Data quick-fills Kubernetes containers with file data
VAST Data has announced Kubernetes Container Storage Interface (CSI) support for its storage array operating system. This enables automated provisioning of storage to containers and will also work with...
Your occasional enterprise storage digest, featuring Red Hat, Nexsan, and Scality
Nexsan has started up the RoCE road giving faster access to its Assureon archive arrays. IBM-owned Red Hat has added multi-cloud support to its container storage and Scality thinks...