Panasas seeks partners as it faces up to public cloud challenge
Profile. A briefing meeting with HPC storage supplier Panasas’ chief exec in April revealed a company intent on broadening its partner base, building a lower entry-level system and working...
Another storage-as-a-service competitor enters the ring: Dell launches APEX
Dell today unveiled its APEX Data Storage Services at its virtual Dell Technologies World event, claiming to offer a consistent service across edge locations, private and public clouds, with...
VAST Data valued at $3.7bn after $83m cash round
VAST Data has had a fourth funding round, raising $83m to hit a valuation of $3.7bn, a year after raising $100m at a $1.2bn valuation. It doesn't strictly...
Amazon Web Services launches cloud assault against on-premise filers
Amazon Web Services wants to convince customers to replace on-premises files with a caching gateway channel that leads to an SMB filer in its public cloud.
It has launched the...
StorFaster? Quantum converges StorNext metadata controllers onto faster storage server
Quantum has introduced StorNext H4000, a more powerful hybrid flash/disk appliance that does away with the need for separate metadata controllers and client access nodes by using faster controllers.
StorNext...
IBM builds containerised version of Spectrum Scale
IBM is launching a containerised derivative of its Spectrum Scale parallel file system called Spectrum Fusion, as well as delivering new ESS 3200 Elastic Storage System storage array and...
OK, SANshine, how do you position Nebulon against external arrays, HCI, SmartNIC and DPU...
Analysis: Would-be SAN array and HCI rival Nebulon’s SPU (Storage Processing Unit) is a fresh way of delivering shared storage and other services by using what looks like hyper-converged...
Your occasional storage digest with Veritas, Seagate, and Tintri
This week's storage digest
Why croit thinks Ceph is ‘unbeatable general storage solution’ – and why it will...
Ceph software is a singular data storage technology, as it is open source and offers block, file and object access to data. But it has a reputation of being...
Dell PowerStore gets more with hot entry-level box
Dell Technologies has announced a PowerStore 500 entry-level system and updated PowerStore software with performance enhancements.
Jeff Boudreau, GM of Dell Technologies infrastructure solutions group, proclaimed today: “PowerStore is the...
Your occasional storage digest with NGD computational storage and more
The headline story in this week's storage digest is concerns NGD's computational storage drives reducing deep neural net training time by up to two thirds. That's a new use...
Amazon Files get CRAB protection
Amazon has added cross-region and cross-account facilities to the AWS Backup facility for AWS FSx -calling this CRAB for FSx.
Amazon FSx enables customers to create secure, durable backups of...