Spectra Logic’s StorCycle HSM shunts old data to lower cost storage
Spectra Logic, the tape systems vendor, is entering the storage management market, claiming it solves the problem that most data is stored on the wrong media i.e. expensive and fast...
Your occasional Storage Digest featuring Dell EMC, Seagate, SwiftStack and more
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Dell EMC Isilon software update
The Isilon ONeFS filer OS has been updated to v8.2.1 and adds hardware accelerated in-line compression and inline...
Samsung’s open source key:value SSD is a game-changer for unstructured apps
Samsung has developed an open standard prototype key:value SSD and is working with Datrium, Minio, DDN’s Nexenta and others to productise it.
A key:value (KV) SSD implements an object-like storage...
A bit of a storage rounder-upper
August is coming to a close. Here is a round-up of storage news for the past few days.
AI-powered personal NAS
Say hello to Latticework’s Amber, a personal NAS that...
Your occasional storage digest featuring Dell EMC, Cloudera, InfiniteIO, Cloudian and more
Here are some storage news stories to round off the week.
Dell EMC storage comes closer to Cloudera
Dell EMC and Cloudera have strengthened their partnership whereby Dell EMC storage is...
Quantum emerges from accounting hell
Quantum has finally filed corrected financial statements along with its latest quarterly results, and is set to focus on the video and image storage market.
This has cost $33m and...
LucidLink gains Cloudian back end
LucidLink, has combined its technology with Cloudian to provide a high performance object storage system for enterprises.
Customers can replace all but the most demanding HPC workloads in their existing...
NetApp warns of big revenue miss as US-China woes bite
NetApp expects a big revenue miss in the first 2020 quarter due to large global accounts spending less in response to the US-China trade dispute and other macroeconomic uncertainties.
The...
Western Digital tunes up ActiveScale object storage arrays
Western Digital has updated its ActiveScale object storage arrays, adding larger disks and a faster operating system.
WD sells two ActiveScale systems, the entry-level and modular P100 and the larger...
Google Cloud serverless function object access is four times faster than AWS
AWS S3 is four times slower than Google Cloud Services when serverless functions access object storage.
So says LightStep Research in a report seen by Blocks and Files entitled “How...
Traditional file and block storage vendors are toast – Minio
Storage software supplier Minio reckons that the public cloud and fast object storage will 'squeeze the life out of traditional file and block storage suppliers'.
Chief Marketing Officer...
IBM storage hardware revenues fall in latest quarter
IBM storage hardware revenues fell substantially in its second 2019 quarter - but new high-end storage is coming later this year.
Overall Big Blue’s revenues of $19.2bn were dragged 4.2...