Spectra Logic takes the Vail – raises attack defences to repel malware boarders
Spectra Logic has made managing petabytes and exabytes of distributed data easier by placing it in a single virtual pool, making its BlackPearl and StorCycle systems more resistant to...
SoftIron becomes storage manufacturing Wizard of Oz
Ceph-based integrated HW/SW array manufacturer SoftIron is setting up a manufacturing base in Australia.
The plant is based in Sydney and building will begin this month. It will enable SoftIron...
This ship is for turning: Pavilion Data is regaining its lost ground
Pavilion Data, provider of the claimed fastest storage array in the universe, appointed a new CEO in July as its VC backers are trying to a grip on the...
3-2-1 — Portworx PX-Backup supports golden rule
Pure’s Portworx business unit has updated its container PX-Backup software to add support for file shares, object storage targets, inter-cloud portability and encryption.
PX-Backup v2.1 can back up Kubernetes applications...
Hitachi Vantara tries to catch up, with VSP arrays, hybrid cloud and containerisation support
Hitachi Vantara has added new top-end storage arrays along with support for hybrid clouds and containerisation, faster object storage and S3 object ingest, plus improved Ops Center management.
Update; VSP...
Komprise adds global unstructured data search and subset move
Komprise has introduced Deep Analytics Actions (KDAA), a product which provides a systematic way to find specific data across hybrid cloud storage silos and can move a subset of...
Coldago pours cold water on Gartner Distributed Files and Object Storage MQ
An interview with Coldago research analyst Philippe Nicolas has revealed what he sees as vendor and product selection choices that in his view weaken Gartner’s Distributed File Systems and...
Gartner 2021 files and objects MQ gets Purified, Nutanixed and Wekanated
Pure Storage has become a leader in Gartner’s latest Distributed File Systems and Object Storage magic quadrant, and both Nutanix and Weka enter this MQ for the first time.
The...
HPE aims to drown Snowflake, Databricks and SaaS backuppers in its GreenLake
HPE has announced additions to its GreenLake subscription offerings, marking the company’s shift into direct competition with public cloud data warehouses like Snowflake and SaaS-based data protectors such as...
Pure scales out with availability zones, automated and active storage management, and database deployment
Pure Storage has added greatly increased scale-out for its arrays with clusters in availability zones, and added cloud-like storage resource consumption and management, as well as automated database deployment services for containerised apps.
Your occasional storage digest with Elastic, MemVerge, an amazing funding round, and more
There’s a strong focus on data querying and analysis in this week’s digest. Data querying has been improved by Elastic enhancing its search products. A US research institute is...
Scality’s hyper-scale data protection and ransomware recovery
Scality has patented software to capture billions of files in multi-petabyte environments in a single snapshot, orders of magnitude faster than traditional filers, and enabling better recovery from ransomware...