Tales from the exabyte storage vault. Tune in for the next episode
Recently, I spoke to Cloudian CEO Michael Tso about the awesome scale and data storage management challenges of exabyte-levels of storage. This prompted me to wonder what an exabyte...
Spectra Logic: We do Azure now
Spectra Logic has upgraded its StorCycle file lifecycle management software, with V3.3 adding support for Azure, more AWS S3 tiers, and improved workflows.
StorCycle takes ageing files from expensive primary...
Scality secures $20m to smooth the way to profitability
Scality today announced it has bagged $20m in new financing - and said this is enough to fund it to profitability.
The object and file storage startup's CEO, Jerome...
At exabyte levels, data gravity exerts an enormous pull. This sucks
I spoke recently to Michael Tso, Cloudian CEO, about the consequences of exabyte-level object stores. Exabyte-level data egress from the public cloud could take years, he told me, and...
Why AWS Outposts is good for Cloudian
Last month I wrote there is an arguable case that AWS Outposts represents an existential threat to the on-premises hybrid cloud storage and server market.
Michael Tso, CEO of Cloudian,...
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...