Storage news ticker – October 17
Cohesity said it thinks most ransomware warranties aren't worth the digital paper they are written on (it doesn't offer such guarantees itself). Many cyber security and data recovery firms...
Azure touts elasticated SAN service
Microsoft's Azure cloud is previewing an Elastic SAN service offering high-availability iSCSI-access block storage.
This storage instance is designed, Microsoft said, “for large scale IO-intensive workloads and top tier databases...
Filecoin: The Airbnb of archival storage
Filecoin, by Protocol Labs, is a multi-faceted storage infrastructure for archival data, operating inside a framework of the cryptoeconomy. It's designed to make a network of storage providers operate...
Something’s missing from global file systems
Analysis: Rarely does a CIO say their business has a global file data access problem and they need a supercloud-type global file system to solve it. Yet, arguably, they do...
Storage news ticker – October 10
Cloud and backup storage vendor Backblaze has hired Robert Fitt as Chief Human Resources Officer, its first such position. He will lead the company’s strategic advancement for all HR...
AWS sets up Lustre-based caching filesystem
AWS is running a Lustre-based caching filesystem to provide fast file access to cloud compute needed to process distributed file and object data sets, including ones on-premise.
Update. AWS' Sébastien...
Hammerspace extends Global Data Environment
Hammerspace has extended its Global Data Environment so that IT operations can set global data policies applying to all data regardless of vendor storage or where it is located,...
Storage news ticker – October 6
Research house IDC has reported that spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments, including dedicated and shared IT environments, increased 22.4 percent year-over-year in the second...
Komprise tells users: Go do it yourself
Komprise has added self-service features for line-of-business (LOB) IT, analytics, and research teams to its unstructured data management software, lessening the burden on admins by giving users controlled read-only...
IBM swallows Red Hat storage products
IBM is deepening its assimilation of Red Hat by adopting two of its open source storage products and moving some Red Hat staff to IBM.
Red Hat is transferring its...
Dremio data lakes can run on VAST Data storage
VAST Data has a partnership with Dremio enabling its lakehouse software to run on-premises, accessing data from VAST’s Universal Storage all-flash file and object array.
Dremio’s software runs in-memory and creates...
Unravel Data raises $50m for data pipeline tech
Startup Unravel Data has raised $50 million in D-round funding to develop its data pipeline technology. What is a data pipeline and what does Unravel Data’s technology do?
Typically an...