Saganworks creates virtual reality rooms for storing files and folders
Saganworks, a US startup, aims to revitalise file:folder user interfaces with virtual reality rooms that create a memory or mindmap of user files.
The thinking is that storing files in...
Infinidat’s founding CEO does a Larry and steps aside
Seventy-year-old Infinidat founder and CEO Moshe Yanai is stepping aside to become Chief Technology Evangelist, and has appointed a pair of co-CEOs to run the business.
Yanai founded Infinidat in...
File collaborator Panzura bought by VC firm
Panzura which supplies file sharing via cloud storage gateways has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by Profile Capital Management, an investment management business.
Freedom Cloud NAS is Panzura’s cloud-based...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Pure Storage and others
FlashBlade gets file and object replication
Pure Storage has announced V3.0 of its Purity//FB FlashBlade operating system. FlashBlade is Pure’s unified, scale-out all-flash file and object storage system. New features...
VAST Data adds SMB support with Universal Storage upgrade
VAST Data has added SMB support and replication in the V3 release of its Universal Storage array software.
Jeff Denworth, VP of products at VAST, claimed today: “Version 3 is...
Your occasional storage round-up featuring Kioxia, Samsung, Veritas and more
Kioxia America
Kioxia America has added snapshots and clones to its KumoScale all-flash storage system.
It has done this by including Kubernetes CSI-compliant snapshots and clones to the KumoScale NVMe-over Fabrics-based...
Western Digital begins mending fences in WD Red NAS drive SMR spat
Western Digital has heralded a positive shift in its approach to users of shingled WD Red NAS drives, via a short statement on the company blog.
As described in our...
Western Digital implies WD Red NAS SMR drive users are responsible for overuse problems
Western Digital published a blog earlier this week that suggests users who are experiencing problems with their WD Red NAS SMR drives may be over-using the devices. The unsigned...
Quantum, a $400m t/o data storage vendor, nabs $10m small business PPP loan
Updated; 17.22 BST, April 22. Quantum statements added. NAICS classification corrected.
Quantum, the veteran data storage vendor, has received a $10m loan from the US PPP fund, which is designed...
Hitachi Vantara launches all-NVMe E990 flash array
Hitachi Vantara has added a high performance, all-flash E990 array to the VSP storage line, filling a gap between the high-end 5000 Series and the mid-range F Series.
Brian...
Spacebelt aims to store data in satellites
Cloud Constellation Corporation is building Spacebelt, a data storage service using low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites that is claimed to be more secure than any data vault on Earth.
The...
Your occasional enterprise storage digest featuring CTERA, Nutanix, OpenIO, StorONE and Veritas
This week's digest covers file-sharing, flash, hyperconverged infrastructure, all-in-one storage, object storage, data protection and supplier responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. Dive straight in with Nutanix.
Nutanix China win
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