Contain yourselves; Kubernetes will defeat public cloud lock-in
Interview Object storage supplier Cloudian tells us IBM’s $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat is evidence of a sea change in what 'cloud' means. The most effective cloud strategy...
Flash and trash. What’s the big idea about two-tier storage?
The storage analyst Enrico Signoretti popularised the term 'flash and trash' in 2015, to "describe a trend of two-tier storage built on latency-sensitive, flash-based arrays on one side and...
Cloudtenna: We can find the file in any pile
Cloudtenna’s multi-cloud and on-premises file search service is ready to use.
The Bay Area company is an early stage-ish startup, founded in 2013 and the recipient of $4 million in...
Regarding NetApp’s strong second quarter
Analysis NetApp turned in a good second fiscal quarter 2019, though its all-flash array revenue growth rate slowed.
It spent a lot of earnings call time emphasising its Elements hyperconverged infrastructure...
A stitch in time saves…Veritas mines data to fix appliances before they break
Veritas appliances are to get much better at looking after their own health, thanks to a clever remote monitoring service.
Veritas Predictive Insights uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms...
All the storage news that’s fit to print! And then some…
Storage news is our stock-in-trade, but it is hard to keep up with the barrage directed at our inbox.
We simply don't have the manpower or energy to delve deep...
You are not alone. Cloud repatriation is a thing, a good thing, says Cloudian
Michael Tso, co-founder and CEO of object storage supplier Cloudian, thinks the rush to the public cloud is slowing.
The on-premises world has caught up with the public cloud as it...
Druva adds backup to AWS Snowball Edge data transfer appliance
Druva has teamed up with Amazon Web Services to offer its data protection software on AWS Snowball Edge appliances.
Snowball Edge is AWS's dedicated server designed for on-premises use cases. Think...
Hello, Nebulon! 3Par amigos unveil their cloud storage start-up
Four 3PAR alumni led by David Scott have set up Nebulon, a cloud-defined storage company.
Scott was the CEO of 3PAR when it was sold for $2.4bn in 2010 to...
Komprise customers granted more cold data storage options
Komprise, the purveyor of file lifecycle management software, has increased the number of cold storage destinations for ageing files and added NetApp Cloud Volumes support.
Komprise Intelligent Data Management 2.9 can...
Virtual Instruments gives VirtualWisdom a big makeover
Virtual Instruments has released VirtualWisdom 6.0, a major release of its infrastructure performance monitoring product.
V6.0 adds cloud integrations and extended correlation of events across infrastructure elements to better visualise...
Datto founder waves goodbye to his CEO day job
Austin McChord, the founder of backup service provider Datto, has stepped down as CEO.
It's all rather sudden but he is staying on the board and is involved in...