NetApp woes look set to get worse
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,...