A brief walk through filer software in the AWS, Azure and Google clouds
Updated April 2019. Filer software is becoming multi-cloud, with 12 cloud filer suppliers overall and several now supporting more than one public cloud. But they all have a way...
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PAIGE, a well-funded US start up that uses AI to tackle...
Quantum booted off NYSE
The New York Stock Exchange has delisted the storage vendor Quantum for failure to file accounts.
The company's self-inflicted accounting mess is to blame. Quantum wrongly recognised up to $60m in revenues...
WekaIO pumps up the SpecSFS 2014 build volume
WekaIO has notched another benchmark win, scoring 5,700 on the SpecSFS 2014 software build test.
This benchmark tests a variety of storage application types: software builds, video streaming, databases, virtual desktops and...
Datera gets helpful halfway OEM hug from HPE
HPE this week added Datera, a software-defined and scale-out storage supplier, to its HPE Complete program.
Hang on, HPE already works with Hedvig, another software-defined and scale-out storage supplier....
Happy Hedvig gets helping hand from HPE
Profile: Hedvig sells multi-protocol, scale-out, software-defined storage and says it is getting a strong helping hand from HPE to seed its technology in big companies.
Why does HPE want to get...
WekaIO boosts HPE Apollo AI workload
WekaIO's file system has given HPE's Apollo's servers a boost for artificial intelligence workloads, giving them a leading Resnet-50 score.
Resnet-50 (Residual Neural Network- 50 layers) is an image recognition...
Unlucky for some: Chris Mellor’s 13 predictions for storage tech in 2019
Here are my personal predictions for IT this year and how they will affect enterprise storage.
Multi-cloud adoption will (a) encourage enterprises to adopt fewer infrastructure component suppliers and (b)...
Your occasional storage digest featuring Exagrid, WANdisco and WekaIO
Early January storage roundup news shows speed has paid off for deduplicating backupper ExaGrid and WANdisco and WekaIO. One W-vendor sends lots of data across networks at high speed....
Journalist jumps ship to Nutanix
A couple of job announcements for you to ring in the New Year.
Greener Grass
Nutanix has recruited TechTarget France journalist Christophe Bardy as solutions strategist in the SE and Specialists...
IBM makes Spectrum Scale play nicely with software containers
IBM has announced Spectrum Scale file system support for containers. The release means that companies building containerised IT environments can use their existing Spectrum Scale storage systems as opposed...
SoftIron, a proprietary ARM hardware company, loves open source Ceph
Interview SoftIron is developing and building its proprietary ARM-powered HyperDrive storage hardware while strongly promoting Ceph open source storage software.
It seems an unusual combination. SoftIron also thinks Ceph will fulfil...