Public Cloud

NetApp woes look set to get worse

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Now we know why NetApp implemented a hiring freeze, spending cuts at the end of last quarter and an 8 percent job cut in January; it has just confirmed...

Amberflo on SaaS storage: Subscription billing is an aberration

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Customers getting sticker shock from their monthly cloud bills is a cliche of the public cloud business. Startup Amberflo claims its metered usage billing service can stop that. Founder and...

Storage news roundup – February 22

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Microsoft’s Azure cloud has announced a preview of Azure HPC Cache Premium Read-Write designed to provide high-bandwidth and low-latency access to files similar to local NVMe storage. It provides lower...

Komprise CEO talks up agnostic information lifecycle management

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On-prem and public cloud storage vendors can add information lifecycle management (ILM) features to their products – but that only confirms the need for a global, supplier-agnostic ILM capability....

Storage news collection – 17 February

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… Data protector Commvault has released its latest platform, PR 2023. This is one of Commvault’s long-term support releases with a support lifetime of up to three years. They are...

Two open source data lakehouse platforms will emerge, says db insight

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Research house db insight says it's likely Delta Lake and Iceberg will become the main data lakehouse platforms, with proprietary alternatives being a transitional stage. This prediction is made by...

Backblaze fans cloud storage fires higher

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Backblaze grew its calendar Q4 revenues faster than analysts expected as the cloud storage business outpaced the wider backup sector. Revenues in the quarter ended December 31 were $22.9 million,...

Spectra Logic targets on-prem archive market

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SpectraLogic has announced a Spectra Digital Archive offering for on-premises archiving using its StorCycle, Black Pearl and tape library products. StorCycle is SpectraLogic file/object lifecycle management software that scans primary on-premises...

Wasabi believes in a single tier and no egress fees

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Wasabi is a single-tier, public cloud storage service provider that claims to offer substantially lower prices than AWS, with no data egress or API charges, and its CEO thinks...

Veeam Backup & Recovery v12 aims at four object storage targets

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Cloudian, Object First, Pure Storage and Scality are the four initial object storage targets for version 12 of Veeam Backup and Recovery, which has added the ability to back...

Pure: The disk/flash crossover event is closer than you think

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A Pure Storage blog by FlashBlade Evangelist Justin Emerson declares "The Disk/Flash Crossover Event Is Closer Than You Think" and looks at the elements that could render hard drives...

Storage news ticker – February 14

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SSD controller firmware developer Burlywood has produced a white paper: "Why Your Concerns About Data Center SSDs are Justified." It claims: "The Burlywood consistently delivers higher ongoing performance,...