Dell EMC Isilon PowerScalisation — new models, ransomware protection and faster backup
Dell EMC has added new hybrid and archive nodes to its PowerScale filer range, provided ransomware protection services and accelerated PowerScale backup and restores. There are four new hardware...
Nasuni file sync accelerates ransomware recovery
Nasuni has invented Global File Acceleration (GFA) — a way to sync shared files up to 5x faster — and enabled faster ransomware recovery as a by-product, with a...
Your occasional storage buffet, with Commvault, NetApp, Lenovo and SingleStore plus accompanying tidbits
Commvault is offering anti-ransomware services to its customers. NetApp wants a billion dollars a year in recurring revenue from the public cloud. Lenovo wants to offer all its products...
Same old, same old — IDC Q2 2021 Storage Tracker
IDC’s latest quarterly external storage market tracker shows a great year-on-year advance by Huawei, and a tremendous fall by IBM — but, really, nothing much has changed at all.
The...
See CTERA summiting GigaOm’s distributed cloud file storage Radar screen
GigaOM has taken an evaluative look at six distributed cloud file storage suppliers and judged CTERA as sitting atop the heap.
Distributed cloud file storage is file storage based in...
Pure Storage tantalises with reinvention possibilities
Pure Storage has flagged a major announcement on September 28th. A financial analysts’ briefing is scheduled to follow the announcement, suggesting news that will affect investors’ views of Pure’s...
AWS’s bumper fun Storage Day
Amazon held a Storage Day on September 2 and announced a whole raft of new features for files, objects, blocks, file/object transfer, and backup.
They are aimed at lowering costs...
HPE’s revenues rise at lethargic rate but demand and order rate impress
HPE revenues rose just one per cent in its third fiscal 2021 quarter, ended July 31, with supply constraints hitting server ships, but underlying overall order growth promised well...
Cloud-native NetApp ONTAP available in AWS
NetApp and AWS have a strategic deal which has put the ONTAP file system natively into AWS as a managed service with FSx for ONTAP.
Updated 4 Sep 2021 with...
Quobyte: AI supports sustainable logging – saving owls’ trees from the axe
Case Study. Northern Spotted Owls, a federally protected species, live in the Oregon forests — forests impacted by human activity such as loggers wanting to cut down trees and...
VAST picks up another $10M-plus customer: a US car-maker
High-end all-flash file storage startup VAST Data has picked up a second $10 million-plus sale in the same month it announced $10 million in US DoD orders, and a...
Public cloud hits the spot for NetApp’s Q122 results
NetApp grew its revenues 12 per cent year-on-year to $1.46 billion in its first fiscal 2022 quarter, ended July 30, and near the high end of its guidance, with...