NetApp introduces Blue XP data management
NetApp is announcing the availability of Blue XP, a software control plane to manage a customer’s data estate in a hybrid on-premises and multi-cloud environment with extensibility beyond NetApp...
Data Dynamics and the era of irreplaceability
File and object lifecycle management software suites like that supplied by Data Dynamics will become essential and virtually irreplaceable as the only way of making unceasing unstructured data sprawl...
Seagate Lyve Cloud embraces Hammerspace
Seagate has integrated Hammerspace’s Global Data Environment (GDE) with its Lyve Cloud storage-as-a-service and Exos Corvault JBOD, as was foreshadowed in May.
Lyve Cloud is an S3-compatible object storage service. The...
Pure Storage pumps up Portworx
Pure Storage has announced a trifecta of Portworx upgrades for containerized app developers: a data access speed bump, new object storage and faster disaster recovery, and a fully managed...
Storage news ticker – October 24
Astera Labs demonstrated how datacenter operators can improve performance and reduce TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) with its CXL, PCIe 5.0, and Ethernet Connectivity solutions at the OCP Global...
Cohesity, VAST arrive in Gartner’s object MQ
Gartner’s latest Distributed Files and Object Storage Magic Quadrant lists two newcomers, "visionary" Cohesity and "challenger" VAST Data.
Update: VAST Data statement added. 24 Ocober 2022. And, courtesy of Pure...
Something’s missing from global file systems
Analysis: Rarely does a CIO say their business has a global file data access problem and they need a supercloud-type global file system to solve it. Yet, arguably, they do...
AWS sets up Lustre-based caching filesystem
AWS is running a Lustre-based caching filesystem to provide fast file access to cloud compute needed to process distributed file and object data sets, including ones on-premise.
Update. AWS' Sébastien...
Hammerspace extends Global Data Environment
Hammerspace has extended its Global Data Environment so that IT operations can set global data policies applying to all data regardless of vendor storage or where it is located,...
Storage news ticker – October 6
Research house IDC has reported that spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments, including dedicated and shared IT environments, increased 22.4 percent year-over-year in the second...
Komprise tells users: Go do it yourself
Komprise has added self-service features for line-of-business (LOB) IT, analytics, and research teams to its unstructured data management software, lessening the burden on admins by giving users controlled read-only...
Gartner: Flash array revenue to overtake HDD
According to Gartner, all-flash-array revenues will pass disk drive and hybrid array revenue next year and grow to 55 percent of all external storage revenues in 2026.
The research house...