Unlucky for some: Chris Mellor’s 13 predictions for storage tech in 2019
Here are my personal predictions for IT this year and how they will affect enterprise storage.
Multi-cloud adoption will (a) encourage enterprises to adopt fewer infrastructure component suppliers and (b)...
WekaIO boosts HPE Apollo AI workload
WekaIO's file system has given HPE's Apollo's servers a boost for artificial intelligence workloads, giving them a leading Resnet-50 score.
Resnet-50 (Residual Neural Network- 50 layers) is an image recognition...
Happy Hedvig gets helping hand from HPE
Profile: Hedvig sells multi-protocol, scale-out, software-defined storage and says it is getting a strong helping hand from HPE to seed its technology in big companies.
Why does HPE want to get...
Datera gets helpful halfway OEM hug from HPE
HPE this week added Datera, a software-defined and scale-out storage supplier, to its HPE Complete program.
Hang on, HPE already works with Hedvig, another software-defined and scale-out storage supplier....
WekaIO pumps up the SpecSFS 2014 build volume
WekaIO has notched another benchmark win, scoring 5,700 on the SpecSFS 2014 software build test.
This benchmark tests a variety of storage application types: software builds, video streaming, databases, virtual desktops and...
Quantum booted off NYSE
The New York Stock Exchange has delisted the storage vendor Quantum for failure to file accounts.
The company's self-inflicted accounting mess is to blame. Quantum wrongly recognised up to $60m in revenues...
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PAIGE, a well-funded US start up that uses AI to tackle...
A brief walk through filer software in the AWS, Azure and Google clouds
Updated April 2019. Filer software is becoming multi-cloud, with 12 cloud filer suppliers overall and several now supporting more than one public cloud. But they all have a way...
Cohesity throws kitchen sink at ransomware
Cohesity hopes the latest version of Cohesity DataPlatform (CDP) will help to transform ransomware attacks from a devastating existential threat to a manageable nuisance.
The software update, v6.1.1, adds ransomware-resistant backups, detection...
Hyperconverged infrastructure heads closer to the edge
Interview: Get hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) product development and marketing wrong and your business becomes a turkey. Witness Maxta, which crashed into the buffers this week, as an example of when...
WekaIO goes higher than Summit
Well, well; remember back in November when WekaIO, with its Matrix filesystem, took second place in IO-500 10 Node Challenge, with the Summit supercomputer taking first place?
About turn, because...
Virtuozzo Storage is “like Ceph, only faster”
If you want to have file, block and object storage in one product then Ceph does just that. And so does Virtuozzo Storage - but five times faster, it...