Your occasional storage digest, featuring HPE, Swiftstack and more
HPE has updated its two composable systems offerings while Swiftstack has upped the scale and performance of its object storage software. There's host of other announcements to check out...
Kasten: We can slay the microservices backup and restore dragon
If you want to back up data used by containerised applications where do you start?
As Chris Evans, a storage consultant, argued in a recent Blocks & Files interview,...
Superman in glass: Microsoft shines light on Project Silica’s quartz slab archive
Microsoft has revealed more about its Project Silica glass-based archive at Ignite in Orlando, saying it can store the 1978 Superman movie in a three-inch square slab of quartz.
Microsoft's...
Microsoft Azure Blob storage integrates with Scality
Scality and Microsoft have teamed up to enable Scality’s RING object storage to accept data sent from Azure Stack Hub and Azure Stack Edge using the Azure Blob Service...
Nasuni bolsters Cloud File Services with analytics support, migration tools
Nasuni has issued a major release of Cloud File Services, adding an analytics connector, migrators for AWS and Azure, plus support for Google Cloud Platform, NetApp StorageGRID and Nutanix...
NetApp adds Keystone subscription billing
Las Vegas NetApp today introduced a storage subscription service called Keystone.
NetApp Keystone is an umbrella offering, covering on-premises and public cloud deployments, and both customer-managed, NetApp or partner-managed systems....
Komprise opens doors to NetApp CloudVolumes
Komprise, the fiIe lifecycle management startup, is adding Cloud Volumes ONTAP coverage to its NetApp support.
Komprise COO Krishna Subramanian said today in a prepared quote that customers can “gain...
NetApp revenue dip means it has to raise its game
NetApp's annual Insight opens in at Las Vegas today, and sees the company having had two quarters of declining revenues and facing a third. The business faces the ...
HPE adds Infosight to SimpliVity HCI arsenal
HPE has added the SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure platform to the list of things that Infosight monitors.
InfoSight is HPE's predictive analytics service, delivered over the cloud. It collects telemetry...
Rubrik gains NetApp API trapdoor access to ONTAP
Rubrik Cloud Data Management (CDM) will integrate with NetApp’s SnapDiff APIs to enable faster ONTAP backups, the companies announced yesterday.
Backups are normally done incrementally after an initial full system...
Teradata plays cloud data warehouse firms at their own game
Teradata is rushing to cloudify its data warehouse software in the face of SnowFlake and Yellowbrick and public cloud competitors.
The company has already simplified its product set by combining...
IBM parades ESS 3000 appliance in Big Storage Day Out
Twice a year IBM blitzes out a bunch of storage hardware releases. Today was once of the twice.
The information overload is overwhelming but IBM's main messages for today's announcements...