Gartner releases 2022 storage hype cycle
Gartner’s latest storage and data protection hype cycle is an amazingly long report and, this being Gartner, the basic idea is treated to exhaustive analysis by a team of...
Nutanix to layoff 270 employees
A Nutanix 8-K SEC filing reveals it’s planning to chop 270 employees, 4 percent of its workforce.
This follows “a review of its business structure and after taking other cost-cutting...
Cohesity: The Poonen and Aron double act – part 2
The first part of our interview with Mohit Aron and Sanjay Poonen, Cohesity's new CEO, focussed on Aron. Now we turn to Poonen.
Poonen, in his third official day at...
Cohesity: The Poonen and Aron double act – part 1
Eight months after filing for its IPO, data protection and management company Cohesity has hired its first external CEO: Sanjay Poonen, with founding CEO Mohit Aron transitioning to CTO...
MinIO slams Nutanix use of open source code: round 2
MinIO has accused Nutanix of actively misleading industry and financial analysts by telling them it was no longer using MinIO code in its Objects product when in fact it...
Nutanix apologizes to MinIO for Apache 2 licence infraction
Hyperconverged system platform vendor Nutanix has said sorry to MinIO for not fulfilling the terms of the Apache v2 license with its use of MinIO open source software in...
Pure gets into mainframe backups with Model9
Pure Storage's FlashBlade has gained the ability to store mainframe backups – and make the data available for use in AI/ML and analytics applications – thanks to a partnership...
StorONE drops capacity-based pricing and boosts software efficiency
StorONE has introduced a per-drive pricing model and updated its Storage Engine software to deliver more IOPS from fewer drives, automatically tier from SSDs to disk drives with no...
Storage news ticker – July 21
There is a report published by the Active Archive Alliance: "The Active Archiving Ecosystem: Building a Flexible Archival Repository Your Way," which argues the case for all kinds of...
After swimming up the Amazon, Cloudian’s object storage now stacks up with Azure
Cloudian's cloud-native HyperStore object storage has been validated to work with Microsoft's Azure Stack HCI as a local storage component.
In June, Cloudian announced it had been been validated by...
MinIO accuses Nutanix of violating open-source license
Object storage software vendor MinIO's COO Garima Kapoor claims Nutanix is breaking the terms of its open-source license.
Update: Nutanix provides expanded statement responding to MinIO's allegations. 21 July 2022.
Kapoor...
Zettabyte era brings archiving front and center
Veteran storage analyst Fred Moore told a Fujifilm event audience that we're entering a zettabyte era of data storage and archival storage will be the dominant technology by capacity.
The...