VAST Data quick-fills Kubernetes containers with file data
VAST Data has announced Kubernetes Container Storage Interface (CSI) support for its storage array operating system. This enables automated provisioning of storage to containers and will also...
WekaIO replaces Dell EMC Isilon at Genomics England
WekaIO is replacing Dell EMC Isilon at a genome sequencing installation where Isilon ran out of gas.
In 2015 Genomics England deployed 7PB of...
WekaIO trims sales force
WekaIO, the fast parallel file system storage startup, has laid off some of its sales team. We don't have exact numbers but contacts in two tech storage...
Your occasional enterprise storage digest, featuring Pavilion Data, HPE, Supermicro and more
This week's enterprise storage round-up starts with NVMe-over-Fabric startup Pavilion Data is readying a big sales and marketing push, spending August 2019 VC money. And there are...
Hitachi Vantara targets solution sales with new army of consultants
Hitachi has completed the merger of Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Consulting, first announced in September.
The company has grand plans for the enlarged Hitachi...
Samsung’s Stellus Technologies emerges from stealth. Soon…
Samsung's Stellus Technologies is preparing to step out of stealth. Its LinkedIn entry states: "We are officially one month away from unveiling our revolutionary Native File System...
Acronis and Qumulo join the storage unicorn herd
Research outfit Coldago has updated its Storage Unicorn list, adding data protector Acronis and scale-out filer Qumulo for the first time.
A storage...
NetApp tops IDC’s inaugural scale-out file storage Marketscape
NetApp has topped IDC’s new Marketscape, the Worldwide Scale-Out File-Based Storage 2019 Vendor Assessment. Dell EMC and IBM are also awarded leader status.
Qumulo...
Inspur spurs storage to go faster and store more
Inspur, the Chinese computer systems maker, has announced a dozen storage products - eight updated AS5000 hybrid and all-flash unified block and file arrays, three distributed systems...
Panasas mulls ‘Ludicrous Mode’ latency-killer for PanFS
GPU-using workloads such as artificial intelligence and machine learning require faster access to data and metadata to keep them busy. And this presents a challenge for...