Cohesity aims to kill copy data management sprawl
Cohesity has entered the copy data management market, farming out space-efficient clones of data sets to developers from its backup store.
The idea is to stop developers having to request...
CTERA’s Media Filer adds cloud scale and sharing
Distributed creative content teams need to share content files from a multiplicity of devices and locations. CTERA’s Media Filer enables that, adding cloud-scale and security to the mix.
CTERA produces...
Commvault buys Hedvig in storage and data management unification play
Commvault is buying Hedvig, a software-defined storage startup, for $225m.
This is a bet on data unification and operational efficiency by Commvault, which cites a Gartner forecast that software-defined storage...
VirtualWisdom gets closer to self-driving app vision
AIOps is a Gartner-supported concept of performance and infrastructure monitoring.
AIOps
AIOps stands for artificial intelligence for IT operations and entails collecting performance data from applications and the IT infrastructure (system...
Veritas plays nicely with VMware in the cloud
Data protection stalwart Veritas has ported the Enterprise Data Services Platform (EDSP) for VMware onto the AWS, Azure and Google clouds.
For data protection vendors, the capability to backup to...
Rubrik ramps up data management rubric
Four software upgrades from Rubrik today, including no gap protection added to Rubrik Cloud Data Management, two new apps for its Polaris governance product, and a fresh lick of...
Commvault ‘not pleased’ with sales performance
Data protection heavyweight supplier Commvault has delivered an anaemic set of results for the first 2020 quarter.
Revenues fell eight per cent to $162.2m and the company made a net...
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...
Introducing Enmotus, micro-tiering and server speed-up
Two-tier hierarchical sub-file management can accelerate slow capacity storage to fast performance storage speeds and speed up servers on the cheap.
This is what Enmotus’s Virtual SSD server software does....
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Druva, Microsoft, Veeam and StorONE
Take a jolly dash along the River Storage and visit Druva for a backup history lesson, Microsoft with ideas on formal data sharing, StorONE with Dell server storage...
Scale up or scale out? What’s up with separate, clustered and federated storage
Computer systems tend to grow after they are first installed. They need more capacity and / or more performance. They expand by scaling up or scaling out.
Scale-up versus scale-out
Scaling...
HPE lets Komprise join its gang
Komprise has joined the HPE Complete programme - which means HPE can resell its data management software along with HPE storage arrays.
A 13-page Komprise-HPE Reference Architecture document tells...