NetApp, SpectraLogic link up for on-prem archival storage
SpectraLogic is providing validated on-premises object archival storage on tape for NetApp StorageGRID systems as an affordable alternative to S3-based public cloud long-term retention.
StorageGRID is NetApp’s S3-based object storage...
Komprise unveils elastic replication for non-critical data
Komprise has pushed out elastic replication that it says provides more affordable disaster recovery for non-mission-critical file data at sub-volume level.
Komprise’s Intelligent Data Management product can tier data between...
Data steward Rimage pivoting from optical disk publishing to data lifecycle management
Established optical disc-based archiver Rimage is pivoting to data management with an AI-powered digital asset metadata extraction and search product announced, and advanced optical storage in its roadmap.
Rimage describes...
Storage news ticker – January 31
Australia-based data manager and orchestrator Arcitecta has hired Eric Polet as Director of Product Marketing. Previously, he served as Product Marketing Manager at Spectra Logic, where he developed strategic...
IBM touts Ceph for data lakehouses, generative AI
It’s a year since IBM integrated Red Hat's Ceph storage product roadmaps and wants us to know that it’s making progress in this increasingly AI-dominated environment.
A blog going live...
Two cloud file data services suppliers going gangbusters
Customers are clamoring for cloud-based file data services, and both CTERA and Nasuni are growing strongly on the back of this.
Such services have a cloud-based object storage vault storing files,...
Wasabi gets into AI-powered video content metadata generation
S3 cloud storage provider Wasabi is buying Curio for its AI-powered video content indexing technology, and will offer a focussed entertainment and media industry storage tier.
Wasabi has styled itself...
Coldago object storage rankings spark industry debate
Coldago analyst Philippe Nicolas has updated his annual object storage supplier map, dropping Cohesity, Commvault, and WekaIO, and adding Huawei.
The map is a variant on the classic four-box diagram...
Storage news ticker – January 19
Data pipeline automation vendor Ascend.io announced an integration that allows users to scale and run sophisticated dbt models in production with a single command, giving data and analytics engineers...
Pure STACs up benchmark wins against Dell, WekaIO, AWS
Pure Storage STAC-M3 benchmark results show its all-QLC flash FlashBlade//S500 beating Dell PowerScale and Weka/AWS when running the Antuco and Kanaga test suites.
Update. Pure comment on storage capacity in...
Quantum asks for more time to figure out true financial figures
Recalculating its financial situation is proving so difficult for Quantum that the biz has asked Nasdaq for more time to straighten it all out and avoid being de-listed.
The problem...
Storage startup births, acquisitions and market exits in 2023
Three interesting storage startups emerged in 2023, seven were bought and a few storage suppliers and products quit the scene. As more storage startups were bought than born, the...