New moves in AFA driven by QLC flash
A new chapter is opening in the all-flash storage array (AFA) world as QLC flash enables closer cost comparisons with hybrid flash/disk and disk drive arrays and filers.
There are...
Storage news ticker – May 12
Airbyte, which supplies an open source data integration platform, today announced its first premium support offering for Airbyte Open Source. Until now, Airbyte provided support to its users through...
IBM’s lowercase watsonx.data capitalizes on lakehouses
IBM has unveiled its watsonx.data datastore using lakehouse uderpinnings to run multiple query engines for AI and analytics workloads, and claims this can cut data warehouse costs by up...
Gartner: Begun the cloud file services wars have
A report put out at the end of February titled “Modernize Your File Storage and Data Services for the Hybrid Cloud Future” by Gartner research VP Julia Palmer pulls...
IBM looks to M&As after pancake-flat Q1
IBM revenues grew just 0.4 percent year-on-year in Q1 2023, held back by its Infrastructure business unit but with storage hardware a bright spot. It sees M&A possibilities ahead...
Storage news ticker – April 19
The Acronis Cyber Foundation Program announced the completion of new school construction in Sierra Leone and Guatemala, in partnership with GoDaddy. The Barbara Junior Secondary School in Sierra Leone...
Gartner anoints file systems and object storage ‘peer insights’ winners
Analyst house Gartner says its customers have listed the companies they think are above average distributed file systems and/or object storage suppliers. Topping the list was Huawei, MinIO, Nutanix,...
IDrive speeds cloud object storage with SSDs
Cloud and backup storage provider IDrive has launched an all-flash version of its e2 object storage service, with fast access to files stored as objects.
Up until now, all-flash object...
It’s not about money: MinIO vs WEKA – round 2
MinIO claims WEKA was wrong in its response to MiniO’s accusations of open-source license infringements.
Open-source object software producer MinIO licensed its software originally under the Apache v2 scheme and...
Impossible Cloud skips crypto in Web3 storage
German startup Impossible Cloud says it wants to bridge the traditional and Web3 storage worlds with its generally available, decentralized product – paid for in real money, not cryptocurrency...
Storage news ticker – April 14
Managed infrastructure solutions provider 11:11 Systems announced GA of the fully-managed 11:11 Managed SteelDome in partnership with SteelDome Cyber. This provides secure, scalable and cost-efficient storage of customers’ unstructured,...
DataCore positions AI-enabled Perifery as its edge
Multi-protocol storage SW supplier DataCore is setting up a Perifery edge division with AI+ services it says provide preprocessing tasks at the edge of media and entertainment company workflows.
DataCore...