NetApp and AWS boost FSx for ONTAP performance
NetApp and AWS say they have given the FSx for ONTAP file system a ninefold performance boost.
FSx for ONTAP was introduced two years ago as a first-party managed file...
VAST Data claims vast cost-saving over Elastic File Service in Amazon’s cloud
VAST Data has released v5.0 of its VAST Data platform software and claims customers can save up to 80 percent of the cost of Amazon's EFS by using VAST's...
AWS radically speeds up small S3 object access with new tier
AWS has introduced an S3 Express One Zone tier (S3 1XZ) to speed up small object access latency by up to 10x.
The announcement was made at AWS re:Invent 2023,...
NetApp’s Q2: Down we go again but things are getting better
Revenues in NetApp’s second quarter of fiscal 2024, which ended on October 27, were $1.56 billion, at the mid-point of its guidance and 6.1 percent down year-on-year. The $233...
Save your tiers: Wasabi supplies single-tier S3 cloud storage only
Cloud storage supplier Wasabi is a stick-to-your-core-focus business and its core focus is offering disk drive-based S3 object storage in its cloud, with the pitch being that it's cheaper...
Storage news ticker – November 24
AvePoint has announced the launch of AvePoint Cloud Backup Express, which, running on Microsoft 365 Backup Storage, enables customers to protect and secure their SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange environments....
Nodeum punching above its weight in Euro HPC market
Belgium-based Nodeum is a 10-person outfit with its file management software used by 30 customers, including five of the top European high-performance computing centers. How did such a small...
Microsoft advances toward glass-based archival storage
Project Silica, a Microsoft plan to store multiple layers of archival data inside slabs of quartz glass, is getting closer to becoming a product, as a 16-page document explains.
Microsoft's...
LucidLink secures $75M to boost remote collaboration
Remote large file collaboration startup LucidLink has raised $75 million to engineer software for distributed creative professionals to work faster together.
Update. CTERA CTO comments added; 27 November 2023.
LucidLink’s FileSpaces...
Arcitecta upgrades Mediaflux to add streamlined data management
Arcitecta has upgraded its Mediaflux software to become a Universal Data System orchestrating, managing, and storing geo-distributed unstructured data across its entire lifecycle.
Mediaflux is an unstructured data silo-aggregating software...