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...
Panasas adds security and tweaks performance in PanFS 9
HPC storage supplier Panasas has made available PanFS 9, the latest version of its parallel file system, introducing security features that it promises will not impact performance. There are...
Worried ransomware merchants know more about file storage than you do? You should be…...
PROMO If you’re still not convinced of the need to re-examine your whole approach to file management, perhaps a ransomware attack will change your mind.
Ransomware merchants don’t just rely...
Inspur goes world record SPC-1 benchmarking in the Optanical garden
A clustered 16-controller Inspur storage array system using Optane and NVMe SSDs has set an SPC-1 performance world record, overtaking Huawei.
The Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1 benchmark tests the performance...