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...
Cleondris: Unofficial Swiss NetApp skunkworks talks backup and ONTAP
Looking for a niche service perhaps too small for NetApp’s ONTAP engineering crew? Cleondris, a Switzerland-based NetApp skunkworks, might get involved. The firm, which has a big presence in...
Arcitecta promises data recovery for billions of files in seconds or less
Australia-based Arcitecta has developed a product which provides continuous inline data protection for files and objects with zero RTO and near zero RPO, and rollback in milliseconds to any...
AWS using Model9 as mainframe data pump to load S3 for replatformed mainframe apps
AWS is using Model9 as a data pump to draw file data off mainframes and sluice it into S3 buckets as part of a wholesale mainframe modernization exercise.
This includes...
Cirrus Data and the next frontier: Moving SAN blocks to the cloud
Cirrus Data believes that the new challenge for storage in the public cloud, up to now largely built on object and file data, is moving block data to...
Storage news ticker – 2 December
AWS and re:Invent 2022 news
AWS announced Amazon DataZone, a new data management service that makes it faster and easier for customers to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored...
Cohesity AWS integration picking up pace
Two years after launching Data Management as-a-service (DMaaS) on AWS and following a slow start, Cohesity says it has now notched up a more than eightfold customer increase in...