Samsung’s Stellus Technologies emerges from stealth. Soon…
Samsung's Stellus Technologies is preparing to step out of stealth. Its LinkedIn entry states: "We are officially one month away from unveiling our revolutionary Native File System for unstructured...
Let’s start the New Year storage round-up with NAND passing the 3-digit layer count
Best wishes for the New Year, storage people. Let's kick it off with our first storage roundup in 2020.
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Samsung suffered a power outage on New Year’s eve...
VMware to use MinIO object storage in Kubernetes embrace
VMware looks likely to provision storage to Kubernetes Pods using MinIO open source object storage, if its own slide is to be believed.
But first some background. VMware is embracing...
Hitachi Vantara tops IDC Object Storage Marketscape
NetApp and Cloudian were promoted, IBM demoted, Cohesity ejected and OpenIO brought indoors from the cold in IDC's 2019 Object Marketscape report.
NetApp has published an extract that contains the...
Petabytes ahoy! SwiftStack leaves crowded cheap-and-deep object storage field
Object storage supplier SwiftStack has laid off an undisclosed number of employees and is steering from commodity object storage to high-performance, petabyte scale applications.
SwiftStack issued a statement yesterday, as...
The three Cs of Actifio 10c: Clouds, containers and copy data
Actifio has released a major update of its eponymous copy data manager software.
Actifio 10c focuses on three 'Cs': cloud, containers and copy data. The company emphasises backup as...
DDN Enterprise adds AIOps twist to Tintri roadmap
DDN is organising itself into two divisions: DDN At Scale is its traditional high performance storage business; and DDN Enterprise is home to three recent acquisitions - Tintri, Nexenta...
Komprise preps on-premises object storage tiering
Komprise cloud analytics can move objects between cloud object classes and the company is adding this capability to on-premises object stores.
Speaking to Blocks & Files today CEO Kumar Goswami...
StorCentric’s Retrospect joins backup to cloud crowd
StorCentric looks to move ahead with QLC flash and add cross-product backup to the cloud as it integrates its four acquisitions. These were our takeaways from an interview with...
A brief overview of Intel DAOS high performance storage
Intel’s DAOS came second in the 2019 IO500 supercomputing file speed list, behind WekaIO but beating the more familiar faces of Lustre, Spectrum Scale and BeeGFS. Let's take a...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring Amazon, DDN, Intel and more
It’s all about speed this week; Amazon is announcing new stuff before its December Re: Invent conference. DDN has spruced up its arrays and Intel is launching a data...
Get the DataCore vFiLO facts here
DataCore has added file and object storage to its software-defined storage portfolio. vFiLO inherits block-oriented SANsymphony’s scale-out, tiering and parallel IO architecture, and the ability to virtualize third-party file...