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)...
Happy Hedvig gets helping hand from HPE
Profile: Hedvig sells multi-protocol, scale-out, software-defined storage and says it is getting a strong helping hand from HPE to seed its technology in big companies.
Why does HPE want to get...
Datera gets helpful halfway OEM hug from HPE
HPE this week added Datera, a software-defined and scale-out storage supplier, to its HPE Complete program.
Hang on, HPE already works with Hedvig, another software-defined and scale-out storage supplier....
Seven Pillars of IBM Storage wisdom
You would think IBM was a storage chemist; there are that many IBM Storage Solutions floating around. And now we have three more with another four point storage product...
Feeble hybrid cloud capabilities for Dell and IBM in Gartner object storage report
Lack of Hybrid Cloud object storage capability sends Dell EMC, IBM, Red Hat and SUSE down to the bottom ranks in Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for Object Storage report.
The report...
Virtuozzo Storage is “like Ceph, only faster”
If you want to have file, block and object storage in one product then Ceph does just that. And so does Virtuozzo Storage - but five times faster, it...
A dash of storage confetti to spray over Sunday and Monday
Here’s another great big batch of storage news items, two dozen or so of them, to give you a flavour of what’s going on apart from the headline items.
Delphix...
Model9’s mission to murder mainframe VTLs
"We love mainframe and we want to make it better," says Model9 co-founder and CEO Gil Peleg.
He wants to demonstrate his love by killing off mainframe Virtual Tape Libraries...
Storage news sprinkles to start the week
The amount of data to be stored, processed and protected grows incessantly. That's fuelling product growth and partnerships between suppliers as they jostle to taker advantage of the benign...
There’s a Veeam in Western Digital’s ActiveScale eye
Veeam’s backup Cloud Tier can use Western Digital’s object-storing ActiveScale box as a target data store.
The idea is to make longer-term backup storage cheaper by moving it away from...
Pure Storage builds ObjectEngine for multi-cloud, data serving future
Yesterday's ObjectEngine launch is notable for what it brings to Pure’s future data management table. This is Pure’s third hardware platform, joining FlashArray for primary data and FlashBlade...
Nutanix kicks Buckets into life
Nutanix is within a month of launching Buckets, a hyperconverged infrastructure, S3-compatible object service, according to our sources.
The technology gives the company a full house of storage services for...