Data Protection

IBM touts super-fast storage array for z15 mainframe

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IBM launched its latest z15 mainframe today and gave it a new high-end all-flash array to play with. This is the DS8900F and it holds more data with...

Cohesity aims to kill copy data management sprawl

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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...

Your occasional Storage Digest featuring Dell EMC, Seagate, SwiftStack and more

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Shall we begin? Yes, do let's do that. Dell EMC Isilon software update The Isilon ONeFS filer OS has been updated to v8.2.1 and adds hardware accelerated in-line compression and inline...

Scale adds Acronis backup to HCI set-up

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Scale Computing, the hyperconverged systems vendor, is OEMing Acronis Backup to add archiving and disaster recovery to its systems. Scale’s HC3 includes a data protection suite which offers high-availability, backup,...

Commvault buys Hedvig in storage and data management unification play

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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...

Your occasional Storage Digest featuring Acronis, NetApp, Buffalo and more

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Shall we begin? Acronis goes avidly into security services Data protector Acronis has introduced a set of cyber services offering a combination of security risk assessments, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, incident...

VMware Cloud on Dell EMC is ready for those private moments

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Dell Technologies has announced VMware Cloud on Dell EMC (VCDE), a grandly-titled data centre as a service. This is part of its Dell Technologies Cloud, whereby Dell on-premises infrastructure operate...

Enterprise storage suppliers bring their toys to VMworld

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Suppliers of ancillary products are integrating themselves deeper into the VMware environment as it becomes a dominant platform for enterprise server computing. Let's look at some of the products...

A bit of a storage rounder-upper

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August is coming to a close. Here is a round-up of storage news for the past few days. AI-powered personal NAS Say hello to Latticework’s Amber, a personal NAS that...

Veritas plays nicely with VMware in the cloud

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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...

Datrium DRaaS takes the disaster out of recovery

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Datrium today introduced a disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) using the VMware Cloud on AWS as the remote DR data centre. The service is imaginatively called "Datrium DRaaS with VMware Cloud on AWS"...

Druva automates backup push into AWS storage tiers for greatest cost savings

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Druva has devised a way of automatically slotting backup data into the appropriate AWS storage layer, a service that it claims, reduces total cost of ownership by up...