Your occasional storage digest with Intel Ice Lake, composable systems and HCI
The big enterprise hardware event this week centres on Intel's Ice Lake Xeon processors, with HPE saying its Synergy composable system will support Ice Lake compute nodes. We envisage...
Rampant Redis Labs rakes in the readies with $2bn valuation
Surging business growth at Redis Labs has helped the real-time cloud database startup to raise $110m at a $2bn-plus valuation, doubling its valuation from August 2020. The company will...
Kasten intros open source benchmark for K8s storage
Veeam’s Kasten unit has announced the open source Kubestr storage benchmark project for Kubernetes.
Michael Cade, senior technologist at Kasten, explains: “Kubestr offers a simple, easy way to make informed...
Cohesity is now valued at $3.7bn
Investors want to buy $145m of employee-held shares in Cohesity at a valuation of $3.7bn. The new marker represents a 48 per cent jump on April 2020, when Cohesity...
Model9 touts mainframe data services in the cloud
Model9, a storage startup, is parlaying its software that replaces mainframe tape backup into a cloud data services gateway. The company has a big ambition - namely to replace...
Exclusive: Datera has gone bust
Datera, the high-end storage software startup, has gone into liquidation. All of the company's assets are being transferred to the assignee of the creditors, according to a letter dated...
Your occasional storage digest with ScaleFlux, AWS, Dell and more
In this week's roundup, computational storage says hello to Nvidia’s GPUDirect; AWS cuts Glacier prices by a smidge and Dell has upgraded a server line with AMD’s Milan and...
HPE touts Ezmeral Data Fabric for AI and machine learning workloads
HPE is to sell the HPE Ezemeral Data Fabric on a standalone basis and it has opened a marketplace for cloud-native software running on this AI-ML focused service. ...
Your occasional storage digest with Liqid, Panzura and HPE GreenLake
Slurm sounds like a type of slurping or squirming but gives Liqid better access to the high-performance computing market. Panzura is adding ransomware detection to its cloud file system...
Robin.io’s cloud native storage now supports IBM Cloud
Robin.io’s Cloud Native Storage (CNS) now provides storage and data management software for containerised apps in IBM’s public cloud.
Robin CNS integrates with IBM’s Cloud Kubernetes Service (IKS) which deploys...
NetApp makes its big Kubernetes play with Astra
NetApp today officially released NetApp Astra, the company's data management suite for Kubernetes workloads.
Astra is a SaaSy NetApp-managed service that protects, recovers and moves containerised applications. There is...
Commvault plays nicely with Qumulo at the backup party
Qumulo has integrated its scale-out file system with Commvault’s Backup & Recovery to store, manage and protect billions of files.
Commvault's product backs up data from physical, virtual and containerised...