Storage VAR sentiment tracker: VMware mojo lost, Commvault mojo gained?
A June survey of storage VARs’ views of the market shows growing demand with core infrastructure refreshes as the US economy re-opens and ransomware becomes a top-of-mind concern.
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StorONE and Storbyte get NASA blessing for combined fast, long-life flash array
NASA is repatriating an HPC application system back on-premises to a StorONE S1 software platform, running atop a three million IOPS-plus Storbyte flash array with a ten-year write life...
Big Blue adds mainframe storage anti-ransomware vaults to FlashSystem arrays
As IBM's storage hardware sales continue their long-term decline, Big Blue has announced anti-ransomware Safeguarded Copy for its FlashSystems and on-premises Storage-as-a-Service offerings, with planned public cloud extensions.
The Safeguarded...
Hazelcast adds storage drive support and boosted SQL
In-memory data supplier Hazelcast is adding storage drive persistence and better SQL support in a v5.0 release, so it can be used to unify processing of real-time streaming data, transactional,...
Go faster, go smarter — StrongLink data manager gets automation and performance upgrade
StrongBox Data Solutions (SBDS) has upgraded its StrongLink software to add more performance and automation to this multi-vendor, multi-storage platform that abstracts silos into a single metadata-driven namespace.
StrongLink is...
SolidFire flickering out: Dave Wright exits NetApp for fintech
SolidFire founder Dave Wright has left NetApp to run fintech outfit The Reserve Trust Company.
SolidfIre was an early all-flash array company, started up in 2010. Its Elements OS stopped...
China’s Tsinghua Unigroup faces bankruptcy
China’s state-backed chip manufacturer Tsinghua Unigroup is staring bankruptcy in the face. The Wuhan municipal government has taken over the company, which has applied to the Beijing No. 1...
The plot thickens — compute-in-storage maker NGD jumps into Chia farming niche
Compute-in-storage developer NGD Systems says Chia farmers can use its drive-level CPU and DRAM to compute plots faster than with a host CPU on its own.
Chiacoin is a Bitcoin-like...
Your occasional storage digest with Backblaze, Infinidat, Robin.io and Windocks
This week’s digest features new cloud backup software and a Chia note from Backblaze, Infinidat suggesting it’s an AIOps supplier, and Robin.io notching up another server deal for its...
Replicate this! VAST Data has failover and failback
VAST Data has added replication functionality to its VAST OS software in release 3.6.
The all-QLC-flash array software vendor, with Optane metadata acceleration, can now replicate VAST array cluster data...
Silk gets $55M to supercharge databases in the cloud
The rebranded and refocused Kaminario all-flash array business has raised $55 million to accelerate its sales and marketing efforts and expand engineering development.
Silk is the July 2020 public rebrand...
DDN updates EXAScaler software with new management framework and Hot Nodes
DataDirect Networks (DDN) has released an updated version of its EXAScaler parallel file system software with configuration and management APIs to automate its operation, support for Nvidia’s GPU-Direct Storage,...