Ritek’s optical delusion baffles Blocks & Files
Optical disk demand will sky-rocket in 2020 as cloud computing centres come to realise optical disk archives are cheaper and last longer than tape or disk archives. So says...
Seagate says tape to cloud pricing is ‘confidential’
Seagate’s Lyve Data Services will use per-customer, tape-to-cloud project pricing in its data migration centres but commercial details are opaque.
The company last week announced Lyve Data Services (LDS) in conjunction...
Seagate declares war on tape
Seagate wants to take data stored on tape and migrate it to the cloud for faster access. Its Lyve Data Services use Tape Ark software and technology as a...
Datera goes Churchward
Startup Datera has a new CEO - exec chairman Guy Churchward who joined the board just four months ago.
Datera provides block-access, scale-out, server-based storage with its Elastic Data Fabric...
Self-driving cars! The Quantum of some solace for ailing tape vendor
CEO Jamie Lerner is taking Quantum into vertical markets with a front and central focus on StorNext, its scale out filesystem manager. The first example is a mobile storage...
NetApp declares multi-cloud love for Azure, GCP and Salesforce
NetApp is bulking out its public cloud offering with three new services for Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Salesforce.
The company aims to deliver a single, consistent IT environment in...
Delphix fixes AWS RDS data copy inertia and friction
Delphix virtualizes Amazon’s Relational Database Service in new ways beyond logical replication, and farms out test and dev copies in minutes.
Delphix virtualizes on-premises production databases, such as Oracle and...
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Cohesity goes up the Amazon
Cohesity, a converger of...
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...