Pure scales out with availability zones, automated and active storage management, and database deployment
Pure Storage has added greatly increased scale-out for its arrays with clusters in availability zones, and added cloud-like storage resource consumption and management, as well as automated database deployment services for containerised apps.
An archive Piql in a Spitsbergen coal mine
The Arctic World Archive has held a depositing event for data ingestion this month, following a prior one in February, thus providing an effective five to six months write...
Amazon QuickSite Q — business intelligence without gurus
Amazon has extended its QuickSite business intelligence (BI) service with QuickSite Q, which enables users to type questions about their business data in natural language and receive accurate answers...
Your occasional storage digest with Elastic, MemVerge, an amazing funding round, and more
There’s a strong focus on data querying and analysis in this week’s digest. Data querying has been improved by Elastic enhancing its search products. A US research institute is...
Dell building AIOps capability so IT infrastructure can look after itself
Dell has announced CloudIQ support for its PowerEdge servers and PowerSwitch networking gear, meaning that CloudIQ predictive analytics covers Dell’s IT infrastructure product range, providing level-3 conditional automation AIOps.
CloudIQ...
Blowout quarter — Cohesity’s biggest day, week, month, and year
Data protector and manager Cohesity just recorded its best ever results with its fourth quarter fiscal 2021 numbers, showing a $300 million run rate, leading us to ask: what's...
Virtual private clouds arrive with Flow Networking at silo-busting Nutanix as part of mega...
Nutanix customers received a great raft of incremental improvements at the company’s .NEXT event, with virtual private clouds in AOS, better disaster recovery and security. Nutanix’s Cloud Platform has...
A slow burn: SmartNIC sales to grow to over $1.5 billion in 2026
The SmartNIC revolution is going to be a slow-burn one, with Gartner predicting there will only be $1.6 billion of sales in 2026, up from $50 million in 2020.
Wells...
Your occasional storage digest with Rewind, Satori, a Snowflake quadfecta, benchmark bifecta and more
There’s a mini-blizzard of Snowflake news — a quadfecta in fact — plus two startups raising cash, Rewind for SaaS application service backup, and Satori for its secure real-time...
Flow baby, flow — Datacenter-as-a-Service from Mirantis
SaaS, PaaS, IaaS — no, think bigger. How about an entire datacenter as-a-Service? OpenStack cloud supplier and Kubernetes-focussed Mirantis has launched just such an offering, called Flow.
Flow is cloud-native,...
Your occasional storage buffet, with Commvault, NetApp, Lenovo and SingleStore plus accompanying tidbits
Commvault is offering anti-ransomware services to its customers. NetApp wants a billion dollars a year in recurring revenue from the public cloud. Lenovo wants to offer all its products...
Storage news buffet — Quantum, DataCore, SoftIron and other tasty treats
Quantum is building out its credentials as an ADAS (Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems) supplier, reckoning a contribution of a reference architecture will help acceptance of its storage HW+SW into ADAS...