Data storage CEOs decry US racism, in response to George Floyd protests
The killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25 sparked mass protests against police brutality against black Americans across the USA. With President Trump urging the states to...
Cloudian object storage gains observability and analytics tool
Cloudian has released HyperIQ, a monitoring and observability system for its HyperStore object storage platform. The analytics software gives a single view of the Cloudian object storage infrastructure across...
Your occasional storage digest featuring Couchbase, Delphix, Excelero, Kioxia and Wasabi and more
This week's storage digest features two funding rounds concluded in the pandemic, and data virtualizer Delphix declaring its original data source coverage mission is complete. We move on swiftly...
Are DPUs ready for the data centre mainstream?
The X86 CPU is a general purpose processing marvel but it is poor at handling the repetitive processing of billions of instructions. Dedicated parallelised hardware such as Nvidia’s GPUs...
Veeam customer numbers carry on growing
Veeam, the backup software vendor, has announced a blow-out first 2020 quarter, with customer count passing 375,000 and annual recurring revenue (ARR) growing 21 per cent.
Veeam CEO Bill...
We need you, IT pros. How are you modernizing your databases in a hybrid...
READER SURVEY Relational database systems are in many ways the workhorses of IT. But how are they holding up in the modern age?
There are newer types of data stores, such...
Pandemic hits Commvault revenues
Commvault, the data management vendor, missed analyst revenue estimates for the fourth quarter ended March 31, citing the effects of covid-19.
Revenues fell nine per cent to $164.7m. Full...
Quantum asked to return PPP loan, tells B&F: It is ‘saving American jobs at...
Quantum Corp has told Blocks & Files it believes it is eligible for the $10m US Paycheck Protection Program loan it took in April, after being asked (PDF)...
Reader’s storage digest: Backup, HPC storage, data lakes and more
In this week's roundup of storage news, we look at Dremio's Data Lake Engine on AWS, Rubrik extending its public cloud workload coverage, HPE enlarging GreenLake to cover...
Cash-rich Cohesity blames pandemic for job cuts
Cohesity today cited the covid-19 pandemic for laying off or furloughing "a small percentage" of its 1300-strong workforce. The data management startup is cutting the jobs just one month...
Your occasional storage round-up featuring Kioxia, Samsung, Veritas and more
Kioxia America
Kioxia America has added snapshots and clones to its KumoScale all-flash storage system.
It has done this by including Kubernetes CSI-compliant snapshots and clones to the KumoScale NVMe-over Fabrics-based...
NetApp unveils Project Astra for Kubernetes love-in
NetApp today launched Project Astra, an initiative aimed at developing application data lifecycle management for Kubernetes-orchestrated containerised applications.
This is to be NetApp’s replacement for the now-cancelled NetApp Kubernetes Service...