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...
Hitachi Vantara targets solution sales with new army of consultants
Hitachi has completed the merger of Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Consulting, first announced in September.
The company has grand plans for the enlarged Hitachi Vantara, which will focus on digital...
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.
Short items
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...