Your occasional Storage Digest featuring Dell EMC, Seagate, SwiftStack and more
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Dell EMC Isilon software update
The Isilon ONeFS filer OS has been updated to v8.2.1 and adds hardware accelerated in-line compression and inline...
Commvault buys Hedvig in storage and data management unification play
Commvault is buying Hedvig, a software-defined storage startup, for $225m.
This is a bet on data unification and operational efficiency by Commvault, which cites a Gartner forecast that software-defined storage...
VirtualWisdom gets closer to self-driving app vision
AIOps is a Gartner-supported concept of performance and infrastructure monitoring.
AIOps
AIOps stands for artificial intelligence for IT operations and entails collecting performance data from applications and the IT infrastructure (system...
Your occasional Storage Digest featuring Acronis, NetApp, Buffalo and more
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Acronis goes avidly into security services
Data protector Acronis has introduced a set of cyber services offering a combination of security risk assessments, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, incident...
Nutanix reduces cash burn – but when will it turn a profit?
Nutanix delivered poor topline results for its fourth fiscal 2019 quarter and full year, with quarterly revenue down and deeper losses. A good outlook, a smaller loss per share...
VMware Cloud on Dell EMC is ready for those private moments
Dell Technologies has announced VMware Cloud on Dell EMC (VCDE), a grandly-titled data centre as a service.
This is part of its Dell Technologies Cloud, whereby Dell on-premises infrastructure operate...
Enterprise storage suppliers bring their toys to VMworld
Suppliers of ancillary products are integrating themselves deeper into the VMware environment as it becomes a dominant platform for enterprise server computing. Let's look at some of the products...
Now that’s what I call future proofing. IBM makes world’s first quantum computing-safe tape...
IBM is developing cryptographic security measures to protect archived data against attacks by quantum computers.
You can't be too careful, IBM says: “While years away, data can be harvested...
A bit of a storage rounder-upper
August is coming to a close. Here is a round-up of storage news for the past few days.
AI-powered personal NAS
Say hello to Latticework’s Amber, a personal NAS that...
Veritas plays nicely with VMware in the cloud
Data protection stalwart Veritas has ported the Enterprise Data Services Platform (EDSP) for VMware onto the AWS, Azure and Google clouds.
For data protection vendors, the capability to backup to...
Datrium DRaaS takes the disaster out of recovery
Datrium today introduced a disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) using the VMware Cloud on AWS as the remote DR data centre.
The service is imaginatively called "Datrium DRaaS with VMware Cloud on AWS"...
Druva automates backup push into AWS storage tiers for greatest cost savings
Druva has devised a way of automatically slotting backup data into the appropriate AWS storage layer, a service that it claims, reduces total cost of ownership by up...