MinIO is faster than Hadoop. Farewell, NAS and SAN?
Object storage software house MinIO has demonstrated its storage can run up to 93 per cent faster than a Hadoop system.
In its latest benchmarks, published this week, MinIO was...
NetApp squeezes ONTAP into teeny weeny device
NetApp is working on running ONTAP, an operating system for storage arrays, on IOT edge devices and other small things
The game was given away by a tweet today from...
NetApp confirms revenue miss as enterprises reduce AFA purchases
A sharp slowdown in enterprise customers' all-flash array purchases has sucker-punched NetApp, and though it is hiring more sales heads to fix this worry, things aren't forecast to get...
LucidLink gains Cloudian back end
LucidLink, has combined its technology with Cloudian to provide a high performance object storage system for enterprises.
Customers can replace all but the most demanding HPC workloads in their existing...
HPE buys MapR assets
HPE has scooped up the assets of MapR, the doomed Hadoop vendor, for an undisclosed sum.
MapR ran into severe business problems in its first fiscal 2020 quarter, with customer...
NetApp warns of big revenue miss as US-China woes bite
NetApp expects a big revenue miss in the first 2020 quarter due to large global accounts spending less in response to the US-China trade dispute and other macroeconomic uncertainties.
The...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring AWS, hard drive sales, Red Hat and more
Start your week with some tasty storage snacks, including Amazon offering high-performance computing in its cloud, preliminary IDC disk drive ships for the second quarter, and Red Hat support...
HPE lets Komprise join its gang
Komprise has joined the HPE Complete programme - which means HPE can resell its data management software along with HPE storage arrays.
A 13-page Komprise-HPE Reference Architecture document tells...
Western Digital parades go-faster, get-bigger IntelliFlash arrays
Western Digital has updated the IntelliFlash storage array range with a lower-priced entry-level NVMe models and a higher-capacity SAS array. The storage giant has also added live dataset migration...
Big US business thinks object storage is big business
More US enterprises intend to buy object storage than unified file/block, SAN and NAS. Almost half are increasing cloud storage and a quarter are bulking upon-premises storage capacity.
This is...
IBM puts on its Red Hat and bags some more storage software
IBM closed its massive $34bn Red Hat acquisition yesterday. The Red Hat portfolio includes five open source storage software products. Let's take a closer look.
For starters, there is...
Google buys Elastifile
Google is buying Elastifile and its scale-out cloud file storage software for an undisclosed sum.
The company said it will integrate Elastifile's technology and people with Google Cloud Filestore.
In April...