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...
Your occasional storage digest: Compuverde, Igneous, Quantum, Asigra – and more
Ok folks, this week's round up of news from storageland that didn't make the front page. Shall we begin.
Compuverde
This...
Contain yourselves; Kubernetes will defeat public cloud lock-in
Interview Object storage supplier Cloudian tells us IBM’s $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat is evidence of a sea change in what 'cloud' means. The most effective...
Flash and trash. What’s the big idea about two-tier storage?
The storage analyst Enrico Signoretti popularised the term 'flash and trash' in 2015, to "describe a trend of two-tier storage built on latency-sensitive, flash-based arrays on one...
Caringo meets Panasas at JASMIN
Caringo, a niche object storage supplier, has hit the big time at UK supercomputer outfit JASMIN.
This is a clustered supercomputer at the Science...
Ceph backers apply Foundation in storage makeover
Ceph, the open source storage software platform, has gotten its very own foundation. Just like Linux.
The Ceph Foundation is organised as a directed...
You are not alone. Cloud repatriation is a thing, a good thing, says Cloudian
Michael Tso, co-founder and CEO of object storage supplier Cloudian, thinks the rush to the public cloud is slowing.
The on-premises world has caught up...
OpenIO goes serverless to keep the weight down
OpenIO has devised its own serverless computing framework to add functionality to its SDS object storage software.
The fruits of its labour can be seen...
Komprise customers granted more cold data storage options
Komprise, the purveyor of file lifecycle management software, has increased the number of cold storage destinations for ageing files and added NetApp Cloud Volumes support.
Names, Faces and Storage Places
Just three moves for you in this edition of Storage People moves.
Let's begin with Guy Churchward, who has become executive chairman at Datera,...