Cloud object storage vendors that compete with Amazon S3
Pricing unpredictability and egress charges are the main problems with Amazon’s S3 object storage, according to GigaOm. But there are plenty of competitive options, the tech analyst firm notes....
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Brexit, Tsinghua Unigroup and more
Brexit, China, the cloud and 3D NAND are the main themes in this week's digest. We also have a multitude of smaller items, including a large customer going all-in...
IDC finds another way to count HCI revenues – and Nutanix comes out of...
IDC has devised yet another way to classify HCI revenues, this time by counting sales of the software running the heterogeneous storage controller that supplies block, file and...
Half the performance for half the price: NetApp’s new cut down StorageGRID load balancer
NetApp has launched a low-end StorageGRID appliance called the SG100 to cater for small deployments. The new system is a cut-down version of the load-balancing SG1000 and it delivers...
Lustre and S3 join Atempo’s Miria data moving party
Atempo has added support for Lustre and S3 in a major update for Miria, its enterprise data backup, archive and migration suite.
Update. Datadobi does work with Lustre. Comment added...
The next game changer? Amazon takes on the SAN vendors
Amazon has re-engineered the AWS EBS stack to enable on-premises levels of SAN performance in the cloud. Make no mistake, the cloud giant is training its big guns at...
NetApp’s high-end AFA sales lead it out of pandemic recession
NetApp has posted its second successive quarter of revenue growth, thanks to an unexpected boost in high-end all-flash storage array sales.
The company recorded $1.42bn in revenues for the second...
Pure Storage is glad to be as-a-service for you
Pure Storage has updated Pure-as-a-Service with service catalogs, transparent pricing, a cheaper entry price for block storage and a subscription version of the FlashStack reference architecture.
Pure products are available...
Look at S3 through a Storage Lens
Amazon has made it easier for customers to figure out how to reduce their S3 cloud object storage costs, with a new analytics dashboard.
AWS's S3 Storage Lens enables users...
Pavilion Data: Our unified storage array is the fastest in the universe
Pavilion Data, the high-end array vendor, has released a speedy parallel file system that brings it into direct competition with major HPC storage players for the first time.
The new...
Seek and ye shall find (unstructured data), with Quantum ATFS
Quantum has displayed the first fruits of its April 2020 acquisition of Atavium in April - a general file storage product called ATFS. The company has also updated...
Your occasional storage digest with MRAM, Commvault, Elbencho and more
Let's start with GPUDirect.
GPUDirect storage benchmark
Elbencho, a new open-source benchmark for blocks and files, is the first tool to support Nvidia's GPUDirect Storage (GDS). This gives people the possibility...