MinIO boss: Times are going to get very tough for appliance vendors
MinIO co-founder and CEO Anand Babu Periasamy has shared some of his thoughts on the current state of IT. Unsurprisingly, he positions MinIO as a beneficiary of the economic...
Data lake protection, resilience, tiering, and DR
If you have a data lake, how can you protect it against data loss or ransomware? Should the data lake provider or you protect the data lake itself or...
Dell puts PowerFlex into AWS
Dell has made its PowerFlex hyperconverged infrastructure system available on the AWS marketplace as part of the company's APEX program to have its storage software operate across private and...
Storage news ticker – November 18
Infrastructure connectivity outfit ATTO Technology has joined Open-E, and Western Digital in introducing a high-capacity, high-availability HDD storage system based on Open-E JovianDSS Data Storage Software, an Ultrastar Data60...
Scality adds dynamic data tiering to RING
Scality has added NVMe flash and tiering support to its RING object storage product and extended its integrations at API level with Veeam backup, VMware Cloud Director, and Prometheus...
Dell refreshes data protection portfolio
Dell has extended its data protection facilities with a PowerProtect Data Manager Appliance, Cyber Recovery for Google Cloud, and backup targets added to the APEX Storage Services cloud-like subscription.
The...
Decentralized storage provider Züs evolves from 0Chain with big claims about speed – and...
Decentralized storage supplier Züs, which announced its existence today, has a similar aim to Filecoin and Flux: displacing large centralized cloud storage suppliers. However, Züs boasts a parallel design...
Storage news ticker – November 16
Taiwan-based Ambedded Technology has released the UniVirStor Flash Mars500 Ceph Storage Appliance: software-defined storage integrating Ceph, Ampere Altra Arm servers, and Ambedded’s Ceph management web UI. This turn-key appliance...
Escape the cloud egress trap with Wasabi Cloud Sync Manager
Wasabi offers cheaper and faster object cloud storage than the three top public clouds, and now has an egress cost escape trap to free locked-in big cloud prisoners.
It says...
Cohesity strengthens anti-ransomware strategy
Cohesity is piloting a DataHawk SaaS service and has set up a Data Security Alliance to buttress its anti-ransomware weapons to customers.
DataHawk combines threat protection via scans for attack...
WEKA inhales more cash to fuel ‘hypergrowth’
WEKA, the developer of high-performance, parallel filesystem software, has taken in a second funding round this year, saying it’s needed to fuel sales growth and global expansion.
The company was...
ExaGrid shrinks backups with Veeam, Veritas
ExaGrid has deepened its integration with Veritas and Veeam backup software to make backups complete in less time and take up less space.
Update: Bill Andrews notes on deduplicaion and...