Your occasional storage digest featuring Druva, WekaIO with STACs of benchmarks, and more
This week, Druva helps notebook and desktop users defeat ransomware, and WekaIO feasts on more STAC benchmarks.
Druva gets fiery-eyed
Druva, the backup service vendor, has cut a deal with security...
Scality claims big savings for hospital data storage
Object storage supplier Scality says five healthcare customers each save an average $270,000 per PB over three years compared to their previous storage, and get data 52 per cent...
IBM AI storage supports Nvidia’s A100 GPU powerhouse
IBM's Storage for Data and AI portfolio now supports the recently announced Nvidia DGX A100, which is designed for analytics and AI workloads.
David Wolford, IBM worldwide cloud storage portfolio...
You couldn’t do this already? AWS adds size and bandwidth growth to FSx...
AWS has improved Amazon FSx for Windows File Server with dynamic size and throughput growth scaling capabilities.
FSx for Windows File Server provides disk or SSD-based SMB-protocol file storage and...
Huawei plans 20TB SMR drive for OceanStor Pacific storage array
Huawei is planning to use 20TB SMR drives in its OceanStor Pacific, a mass data storage "array for the 5G era".
Launched last month, OceanStor Pacific is a unified...
Dell teases PowerScale unified storage array
Dell will launch a unified unstructured storage array line next month, deputy chairman Jeff Clarke said yesterday.
In prepared remarks about the company's Q1 earnings, Clarke revealed: "Next...
NetApp revenue decline accelerated by pandemic
NetApp's fourth quarter ended April 24 deteriorated as the pandemic struck and exacerbated product and cloud sales weaknesses.
NetApp’s final 2020 quarter revenues were $1.4bn, dropping 11.9 per cent from...
Dell’s OneFS for Google Cloud. What do the competitors think?
Last week, Dell Technologies announced Isilon scale-out filers in Google Cloud, which it has branded as OneFS for Google Cloud.
OneFS for Google Cloud is not a cloud-native offering. Netapp's...
Your occasional storage digest including Arcserve, Excelero and WekaIO
There's a lot of teamwork going on in data storage land as suppliers piggyback on each other's strengths. We see it with Arcserve and Sophos, WekaIO and Valohai, and...
HPE storage revenues take a beating, blames pandemic supply chain woes
HPE’s storage revenues slumped 18 per cent to $1bn in its second 2020 quarter ended April 30 as “component shortages and supply chain disruptions related to the COVID-19 pandemic...impacted...
HPE straps SimpliVity booster to CTERA file services
HPE and CTERA have strengthened their partnership so that all HPE SimpliVity HCI customers can run CTERA's file services software and “replace aging NAS systems and securely connect remote...
Dell implants Isilon filers into the Google Cloud
Update: May 26, 2020. Customer availability note added.
Dell Technologies has added the scale-out Isilon OneFS file server to Google Cloud. Customers get 50PB file name space and 200GB per...