Scality preps scale-out file system on Azure Blob Storage
Scality is developing a scale-out file system (SOFS) for Microsoft Azure Blob storage.
The company is building a cloud-native scale-out file system in the Azure Cloud using Microsoft Azure Cosmos...
Cloudian and Veeam build ransomware data recovery service atop Amazon S3 Object Lock
Cloudian and Veeam have introduced Amazon’s S3 cloud Object Lock on-premises to combat ransomware attacks.
In the event of an attack, ransomware-locked files can be replaced by Veeam backup data...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring mainframes, HAMR and a data protection deluge
Your occasional storage digest this week features boatloads of data protection news from Atempo, Clumio, Cobalt Iron, Datrium, Druva, Infrascale and Overland-Tandberg.
Also we cover mainframe data extraction and...
Why fast object storage is poised for the mainstream
Four years ago, Pure Storage pioneered fast object storage with the launch of its FlashBlade system. Today fast object storage is ready to go mainstream, with six vendors touting the...
Samsung-backed key:value crew Stellus drops veil on new tech, will have to work...
Newly emerged Stellus Technologies has developed a new and different high-performance data storage and processing system involving arrays of compute-in-storage SSDs providing real-time access across a key:value over NVMe...
We object: Quantum snaps up Western Digital’s ActiveScale business
What a week for Quantum. It made its first quarterly profit in more than four years. It qualified to get listed on Nasdaq and now it is buying Western...
Cohesity loses cohesion: Rapidly diversifying firm has an identity problem
You thought you understood Cohesity well enough. It supplies hyperconverged secondary storage. It is basically 'doing a Nutanix' on the secondary storage market and converging the file use cases...
Cloudian goes Splunk and Hitachi buys ML metadata firm
This week in storage, we have an acquisition, three momentum releases, Cloudian going Splunk, Emmy awards for Isilon and Quantum, plus some funding news, people moves, two customer wins...
NAS to NAS storage migration is nasty… but there’s a better way, claims...
Replacing an old filer or object store entails migrating data to the new system - and that can lead to a world of hurt.
“The ROI of a...
Your occasional enterprise storage digest, featuring Red Hat, Nexsan, and Scality
Nexsan has started up the RoCE road giving faster access to its Assureon archive arrays. IBM-owned Red Hat has added multi-cloud support to its container storage and Scality thinks...
WekaIO pulls alongside Dell EMC Isilon at Genomics England
WekaIO is being used for a genome sequencing installation's new project where an existing project's temporary Isilon performance problem, due to near 100 per cent capacity usage, has...
MinIO earns Cisco validation for Data Intelligence Platform
Cisco has validated Minio as an object store for its scale-out Data Intelligence Platform. Minio joins Cloudian, Scality, Ceph and SwiftStack as approved suppliers.
Cisco launched the Data Intelligence...