Storage news sprinkles to start the week
The amount of data to be stored, processed and protected grows incessantly. That's fuelling product growth and partnerships between suppliers as they jostle to taker advantage of...
NetApp building moat around ONTAP base
NetApp says flash and cloud integration enables it to build a moat around its core ONTAP business base, despite revenues becoming temporarily becalmed.
How to get a self-castrated bull: Dave Hitz retires from NetApp
It’s the end of an era; NetApp co-founder and EVP Dave Hitz is retiring.
The news came in a blog and signals the end...
Your occasional storage digest featuring Crossbar, CTERA, Snowflake and Pavilion Data
Some bits and bobs for your perusal. Let's go.
Short items
ReRAM developer Crossbar Inc. is setting up a consortium...
A dash of storage confetti to spray over Sunday and Monday
Here’s another great big batch of storage news items, two dozen or so of them, to give you a flavour of what’s going on apart from the...
Virtuozzo Storage is “like Ceph, only faster”
If you want to have file block and object storage in one product then Ceph does just that. And so does Virtuozzo Storage - but five times...
Arcserve goes head-on against Commvault, Rubrik, Unitrends and Veritas
Watch out Commvault, Rubrik, Unitrends and Veritas; Arcserve is coming right at you.
It has updated its UDP appliance with 9000 series models that...
Seven Pillars of IBM Storage wisdom
You would think IBM was a storage chemist; there are that many IBM Storage Solutions floating around. And now we have three more with another four point...
Look to the visible Horizon and witness the future of HDD vs SSD
Disk drive capacity shipped and NVMe SSD sales will both boom over the next few years because more data needs to be stored and accessed faster when...
Pliops gets funding to build GPU-like Storage Processing Unit
Pliops has secured a $30m investment to bring its Storage Processing Unit into production and is targeting a launch in mid-2019.
The Israeli company...