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Here are some storage news stories to round off the week.
Dell EMC storage comes closer to Cloudera
Dell EMC and Cloudera have strengthened their partnership whereby Dell EMC storage is...
MinIO is faster than Hadoop. Farewell, NAS and SAN?
Object storage software house MinIO has demonstrated its storage can run up to 93 per cent faster than a Hadoop system.
In its latest benchmarks, published this week, MinIO was...
Oracle demolishes hardware Pillar, lays off 300 flash storage staff
Oracle is shuttering its flash storage division and laying off at least 300 employees, according to various sources.
Employees were told of the layoffs on Thursday, August 15 by Mike...
NetApp squeezes ONTAP into teeny weeny device
NetApp is working on running ONTAP, an operating system for storage arrays, on IOT edge devices and other small things
The game was given away by a tweet today from...
Rubrik ramps up data management rubric
Four software upgrades from Rubrik today, including no gap protection added to Rubrik Cloud Data Management, two new apps for its Polaris governance product, and a fresh lick of...
NetApp confirms revenue miss as enterprises reduce AFA purchases
A sharp slowdown in enterprise customers' all-flash array purchases has sucker-punched NetApp, and though it is hiring more sales heads to fix this worry, things aren't forecast to get...
Virtual Instruments buys cloud management firm
Virtual Instruments has bought Metricly, the developer of a cloud management tool, for an undisclosed sum.
The company sells Virtual Wisdom, an infrastructure performance monitoring application. With this acquisition, Virtual...
Clumio clambers aboard SaaS backup bandwagon
Clumio, a data protection as a service startup, came out of stealth today. It is touting a cloud-native way of simplifying disaster recovery and contrasts this approach with on-premises...
AWS makes it easier to build and populate data lakes
Amazon has gone live with AWS Lake Formation, a service that can cut data lake set-up from months to days.
Data Lakes are large scale collections of data which are...
Azure IoT Edge runs inside an NGD SSD
Computational storage supplier NGD has embedded the Azure IoT Edge service within its SSDs.
NGD has announced the 32TB Newport SSD in the U.2 (2.5-inch) form factor, twice the capacity...
Quantum emerges from accounting hell
Quantum has finally filed corrected financial statements along with its latest quarterly results, and is set to focus on the video and image storage market.
This has cost $33m and...
LucidLink gains Cloudian back end
LucidLink, has combined its technology with Cloudian to provide a high performance object storage system for enterprises.
Customers can replace all but the most demanding HPC workloads in their existing...