Storage news ticker – December 9
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Data protector and manager Cohesity has announced a new head of EMEA channels: James Worrall. He was previously VP of EMEA channel at F5 Networks and EMEA channel sales...
Storage news ticker – December 6
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Now that Backblaze is publicly owned it is getting covered by financial analysts. William Blair’s Jason Ader says its “Computer Backup and B2 services are built on top of...
Update adds four ways to make WekaIO slicker, smoother and safer
Superfast scale-out parallel file system supplier WekaIO has updated its software to better integrate flash, S3 object storage, cloud and on-premises file accesses in a single, slicker framework with...
Storage news ticker – December 2
AWS-palooza
AWS Lake Formation is a service to set up a secure data lake and has three new capabilities:
Lake Formation Governed Tables on Amazon S3 simplify building resilient data...
Komprise explains the mess: files, objects, silo sprawl and abstraction layers
As if in a dream, I thought: suppose we didn’t have file and object storage? Would we invent them? Now that we do have them, should they be united...
Street-beater NetApp’s fifth growth quarter in a row
NetApp had a knock-out second fiscal 2022 quarter, selling more flash arrays and object storage, and with a good pipeline for further sales. Its public cloud business is growing...
22dot6 adds extra cloudiness to its Valence software
All-singing, all-dancing TASS (Transcendent Abstracted Storage System) supplier 22dot6 has updated its Valence software — making it easier to set up and operate private, hybrid, and public cloud storage.
22dot6...
NexuStorage says blocks and files can come from object storage
NexuStorage’s Nexfs software serves block and file data from an object-backing store using sub-file chunking to reduce data movement and help data tiering, and claims great tier-one storage cost...
Short and sweet – DDN opens up about rulers, subscriptions and SCM
DDN is looking favourably at supporting ruler-format flash drives and a subscription business model, but doesn’t think storage-class memory is needed quite yet.
These points came across when we got...
Dell has record quarter, but flattish storage lets the side down
Dell’s quarterly revenues rose 21 per cent year-on-year to a record $28.4 billion, but storage revenues were anaemic with a mere 0.9 per cent rise to $3.89 billion.
This was...
AuriStor breathes life into Andrew File System
Andrew File System developer AuriStor updated attendees at an IT Press Tour briefing about its work on the file system with an HPC and large enterprise customer base dating...
Panzura update brings array of power-user features
The second generation of Panzura’ CloudFS SaaS filesystem software, also known as Data Services, introduces two-tier licensing with complementary basic and per-user tiers, functional licensing, high-availability nodes and search...