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...
Iguazio builds Google-like Outpost for IoT retail edge
Unlike Amazon's Outpost and Azure Stack, Google has no public cloud on-premises presence. Iguazio says it can provide one for Google customers.
The Israeli start-up claims superstores with multi-branch retail...
Your occasional storage digest. It’s a Rap
Storage can be fast, storage can be slow. The disks can be vast and tapes a no-no. Storage is easy, storage is hard, It leave you scarred, get you...
18 storage news bites pack very pleasant crunch
Eighteen storage news bites today for your delectation. four are light bites and 14 are snacks. Cloudiness, containerisation, data backup and predictions feature in the light bites section of...
Self-driving cars! The Quantum of some solace for ailing tape vendor
CEO Jamie Lerner is taking Quantum into vertical markets with a front and central focus on StorNext, its scale out filesystem manager. The first example is a mobile storage...
NetApp declares multi-cloud love for Azure, GCP and Salesforce
NetApp is bulking out its public cloud offering with three new services for Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Salesforce.
The company aims to deliver a single, consistent IT environment in...
B&Ffled by the storage news flood? Get unbaffled here
Here is a snapshot of press and conference announcements to go with your morning's coffee, tea, smoothie or some other beverage.
Cohesity goes up the Amazon
Cohesity, a converger of...