CTERA: Not storage, but a cloud data services biz
CTERA is leaving its storage roots behind and becoming a cloud-based data services business selling to large enterprises.
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NetApp on the CloudOps acquisition trail
NetApp has bought eight companies in two years as Anthony Lye, EVP and GM of the Cloud DataServices Business Unit, builds up a cloud data operations facility.
The aim is...
Infinidat sticks to its guns for on-premises growth
Infinidat will strengthen its products with access to a wider range of client protocols, as it sticks to its on-premises high-end storage focus – but not to the extent...
Dell storage dives into Equinix colo private cloud pools
Equinix is selling Dell managed storage, hyperconverged and data protection products as-a-service from its datacenters.
The products include Dell PowerStore (all-flash), VxRail and PowerProtect Data Domain Virtual Edition (DDVE). PowerStore...
Big data? Bring it on – XenData’s multi-100PB active archive
XenData has announced an X100 active archive which can manage multiple hundreds of petabytes in tape or optical cartridge libraries with a front-end RAID cache.
This system is for enterprises...
Dell PowerScale syncs to object storage
Dell is adding SmartSync file synchronization to object storage for PowerScale and Isilon systems with a OneFS v9.4 update.
OneFS is the operating system for Dell's PowerScale and Isilon scale-out...
Qumulo aims to be a multi-protocol, multi-hybrid-cloud data lake services company
Interview. Ten years after it was founded, as an on-premises scale-out filer supplier, Qumulo is becoming an unstructured data lake services company in a hybrid multi-cloud world, with its...
MinIO says S3 is primary storage on the public cloud
Can an object storage system function as primary storage? The general assumption is that primary storage is the fastest storage you can get to support important applications such as...
Storage news ticker – March 31
Danish cloud backup supplier Keepit announced the opening of its first two datacenters in Canada. Keepit is partnering with Equinix, enabling Keepit to provide a data storage offering that...
Nvidia Eos AI supercomputer will need a monster storage system
Nvidia is building an AI supercomputer called Eos for its own use in climate science, digital biology, and AI workloads. Eos should provide 18.4 exaFLOPS of AI performance and...
Storage news ticker – March 30
Data storage management software biz Open-E has certified Kioxia’s FL6 NVMe SSD series with its flagship ZFS-based Open-E JovianDSS data storage software. A solution document has details.
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Kioxia is sampling new...
CTERA and Backblaze partner on cloud file services
CTERA is hooking its edge filers up to Backblaze's object store in the cloud to give users file access and collaboration services, claiming it makes NAS filers redundant.
CTERA provides...