Traditional file and block storage vendors are toast – Minio
Storage software supplier Minio reckons that the public cloud and fast object storage will 'squeeze the life out of traditional file and block storage suppliers'.
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Your occasional storage digest, featuring AWS, hard drive sales, Red Hat and more
Start your week with some tasty storage snacks, including Amazon offering high-performance computing in its cloud, preliminary IDC disk drive ships for the second quarter, and Red Hat support...
Cohesity cooks up Runbook to automate disaster recovery workload transfers
Cohesity’s Runbook application makes designing, testing and operating a cloud disaster recovery site safer, smoother and speedier. The app helps users visualise the entire DR site startup checklist process...
Druva buys in cloud storage gateway
Druva has added a cloud storage gateway to its AWS-based platform for data protection and management.
The data protection firm acquired the technology through the acquisition this month of Cloudlanes....
WANdisco signs game-changer deal. Won’t say who big cloud partner is
WANdisco has signed a joint development deal with a cloud service provider to build an embedded data migration and replication service.
Wandisco's Fusion software replicates live data to the public...
Your summer storage picnic
We have spread out a tasty array of storage summer dishes on our white linen cloth. Take a deck chair and feast your eyes on Attala's smart NIC nuts,...
You need access to those big data silos – fast? No problem, says Alluxio
Alluxio has added a bunch of improvements to its open source software, described by the company as a "data orchestration system for analytics and machine learning in the...
Big US business thinks object storage is big business
More US enterprises intend to buy object storage than unified file/block, SAN and NAS. Almost half are increasing cloud storage and a quarter are bulking upon-premises storage capacity.
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IBM improves file cataloguing, object storage, protects databases in the cloud
IBM has updated Spectrum Discover, object storage and Spectrum Protect Plus products and added the FlashSystem 9100 array to its VersaStack converged infrastructure.
The company made the announcement in a...
Google buys Elastifile
Google is buying Elastifile and its scale-out cloud file storage software for an undisclosed sum.
The company said it will integrate Elastifile's technology and people with Google Cloud Filestore.
In April...
Your occasional cloud and tape storage round-up
Our round up starts with an on-premises tape backup replacement, meanders through storage in the cloud, and returns to tape with a new LTFS indexing scheme that saves space...
Your tasty storage collection of files, flash and the cloud
The themes of this collection of storage news bytes revolve around backup, parallel file access, the public cloud and flash, meaning data at scale and fast data access.
We...