VMware’s Cloud Flex Storage in AWS squares up to FSx for ONTAP
VMware has created a scalable cloud file service for its VMware Cloud on AWS, taking on NetApp’s FSx for ONTAP in provisioning storage for its VMs and Tanzu containers.
The...
SingleStore claims 100x speed boost for JSON queries
SingleStore claims to have accelerated queries up to 100x for transactional apps working with JSON semi-structured data.
This is part of SingleStore's v8.0 release of its unified real-time transactional and...
Ondat beats Pure’s Portworx in container storage tests
Ondat has come in ahead of Pure’s Portworx in performance and latency terms when provisioning container-native storage to three databases.
An Architecting IT test, Performance Benchmarking Database Platforms and Cloud Native...
Backblaze pours cold water on immersion cooling for most disk drive setups
Iceotope has demonstrated immersion cooling of disk drives and reckons it could enable fewer drive failures and lower total cost of ownership. A Backblaze technologist isn't convinced.
Backblaze, which provides...
Komprise speeds SMB data migration to cloud
Komprise is claiming to give SMB small file uploads to the cloud an up to 25x speed boost with its Hypertransfer for Elastic Data Migration SaaS.
Its Elastic Data Migration...
Catalogic protects Azure and GCP VMs against ransomware
Data protector Catalogic has expanded its Guard Mode ransomware protection coverage and now protects virtual machines running in Azure Stack and the Google Compute Engine
Catalogic has its Cloud Backup-as-a-Service...
CTERA adopts more multi-cloud ideas
Cloud file services supplier CTERA has adopted Panzura and Hammerspace-style tech in its v7.5 release with parallel networking to its geographically distributed global file system, edge cache deduplication, and...
Fungible sold to Microsoft for $190 million, say multiple sources
DPU startup Fungible has been sold to Microsoft for $190 million despite raising more than $300 million in funding since its incorporation in 2015, according to multiple sources.
The company...
Azure Storage Mover competes with partners
Microsoft has set up a service to move NFS file data into Azure, competing with its partners Data Dynamics and Komprise, and also Datadobi and WANdisco.
Update: Komprise, WANdisco and...
Spanish startup Nuclia reveals language search models
AI Search-as-a-Service company Nuclia claims it can index text from virtually any source and language and then search it for words or phrases in multiple languages.
It’s a cliche that...
Resilience? We’ve heard of it. Forrester data durability study shows Big 3 are ahead
A Forrester Data Resiliency Wave study shows that Commvault is rated ahead of Cohesity and Rubrik, and the three lead all other suppliers. It also gives a measure of...
Qumulo extends scaleout clusters , hardware support
Qumulo has updated to its scaleout filer software to support 265 nodes in a cluster, added support for new third-party hybrid NVMe platforms and will add SMB protocol enhancements.
The...