Storage suppliers go Kubernetes crazy in this week’s roundup
Multiple data storage vendors surfed on this week's Kubecon conference to push out Kubernetes announcements. But first, let's kick off with a little acquisition.
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Rubrik speeds up backup and restore, extends cloud coverage
Rubrik has announced a major software release thats speeds backup and restore and extends public cloud coverage.
The data protection vendor's Cloud Data Management (CDM) Andes 5.3 release also adds...
Oops! The backup restored GDPR right to be forgotten details
Remember GDPR? Of course you do. The GDPR directive gives individuals the right to be forgotten and requires EU and UK companies in certain instances to erase all...
Cisco clambers onto containers with two Kubernetes acqui-hires
Cisco is beefing up its Kubernetes capability with an acqui-hire, its second in recent weeks.
The networking giant said yesterday it is acquiring most of the assets of Banzai Cloud,...
Veeam and Pure snapped up the top two Kubernetes DP suppliers
Pure Storage bought Portworx in September and Veeam bought Kasten last month, to establish an early lead in Kubernetes data protection, according to GigaOm.
Enrico Signoretti, author of The GigaOm...
Kasten now supports multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments
Kasten has announced the third major version of its K10 containerised backup application to support groups of Kubernetes clusters and users.
K10 provides containerised data protection from an application point...
Veeam proclaims that it has 400k customers
Veeam notched up 21 per cent subscription revenue growth y/y in the third quarter, driving customer count past 400,000.
The data protection software vendor reported 375,000 customers in October 2019,...
Dell powers up PowerProtect product portfolio
Dell has upgraded the PowerProtect data protection line-up with Data Manager Kubernetes support and new hardware appliances.
There are three types of PowerProtect appliances: DD Series (Data Domain) backup targets;...
Your occasional storage digest with MRAM, Commvault, Elbencho and more
Let's start with GPUDirect.
GPUDirect storage benchmark
Elbencho, a new open-source benchmark for blocks and files, is the first tool to support Nvidia's GPUDirect Storage (GDS). This gives people the possibility...
Loss-making Quantum claims it is ‘now a self-sustaining business’
In 2007 Quantum was a billion dollar a year tape automation-led business. Today it is a $343.2m run rate tape and file data management business. It aims to transform...
Your occasional storage digest with Toshiba drives, Excelero and more
There’s life in the mid-range capacity disk drive yet as Toshiba introduces a line of sub 10TB drives that don’t use sealed enclosures full of helium gas. Data protector...
Your occasional storage digest featuring Diamanti, HYCU, TrueNAS and more
Two Kubernetes-related news stories in this week's storage news round up. Diamanti has debuted a software-only offering and Robin.io has upgraded its core offering and introduced a full-featured but...