Storage news ticker – 29 Sep 2023
Backblaze, which uses SSDs as boot drives for its disk-based storage servers, has produced its latest SSD annualized failure rate (AFR) report. Restricting its stats to drives with more...
Bullet the Blue Sky: Weka visits Vegas’s Sphere for U2 concert
Rock band U2 has a residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas and Weka is storing and moving video data for the gig.
The Sphere at the Venetian Resort is...
Panzura gets edgy with smartphone and tablet access
Fancy doing file sharing and collaboration on a smartphone or tablet? Panzura has an Edge Gateway which might appeal.
The company has a CloudFS global cloud file services product based...
Fujitsu reselling Qumulo software on Gen 4 Xeon servers
Qumulo scale-out filesystem software is available on new Primergy M7 hybrid servers from Fujitsu.
These M7 servers were launched in January and use Xeon gen 4 CPUs for mainstream enterprise...
Decentralized Storj positions itself against CDNs and AWS for AI model distribution
The Storj network has increased in size by a third in four months and the company is expanding into India, it says, adding that under some conditions, Storj’s decentralized...
Storage news ticker – September 22
Cloud storage provider Backblaze has released Computer Backup 9.0 in early access, which it says eliminates stress over restoring data. The version removes the 500GB size limit on its...
Komprise wants to help monitor sprawling data estates
Storage Insights from Komprise provides file and object capacity and usage information across multiple suppliers, locations, and clouds.
Update: Datadobi response to Komprise's competitive characterisations added. 3 Oct 2023.
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Gartner primary storage MQ shows consistency at the top
The Gartner primary storage magic quadrant has consolidated with eight Leaders – the same as last year – just one Challenger and one Niche player as three suppliers leave...
Storage news ticker – September 20
Data protector Acronis has announced Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (formerly Acronis True Image) with a suite of features that integrate secure backup and AI-based security, making it the...
Infinidat adds AFA inside hybrid InfiniBox
Infinidat has doubled its all-flash SSA II array's capacity, added entry-level models that can scale up, and enabled the SSD cache in its hybrid flash/disk InfiniBox array to function...
William Blair downgrades NetApp, but storage firm remains ‘confident’
NetApp has been downgraded by a financial analyst for what it claimed was underpar cloud business growth and falling on-prem storage product sales.
The company sells ONTAP file and block...
Egnyte brings AI classification to construction industry
Content collaborator Egnyte has introduced specific AI/ML services to trigger workflows for images and documents in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) market.
Egnyte is a file-based collaboration services company...