Cirrus Data: Migration for blockheads
Block data migration provides an exact copy of data from a source storage system to a target system. Blocks and Files has written about file and object-level migrations with...
Imply accelerates massive real-time analytics
Startup Imply has made its parallel query engine generally available to speed reporting from massive real-time Apache Druid databases, added SQL ingestion, a total cost of ownership pledge and...
IBM extends backup products to SAP, Salesforce
IBM has announced data protection products for SAP and Salesforce users.
It is releasing Spectrum Sentinel for SAP HANA, the in-memory enterprise database management system. This uses Spectrum Copy Data...
Evaluating global file systems and NAS cloud filers
The Evaluator Group has compared on-premises NAS filers with a cloud component to global file systems utilizing edge caching devices.
Both, it says, are capable of providing a similar result...
PoINT object archive combines disk and tape
Germany's PoINT Software and Systems has devised a combined disk plus tape archive product with disk random access speed and tape capacity.
Its Point Archival Gateway - Unified Object Storage...
Storage news ticker – September 16
The AI Summit showed that architectural / resource disaggregation is an increasing focus in the AI industry – both at the chip and system level, says Wells Fargo analyst Aaron...
iXsystems gets decentralized cloud storage
Users of iXsystems' TrueNAS SCALE can now get pubic cloud storage at a fraction of the cost of AWS, Azure, and GCP, the company claims.
iXsystems, which ships NAS software,...
Weka revenues suggest ongoing hypergrowth
Scale-out parallel filesystem supplier Weka said in April it was enjoying a hypergrowth period and its latest quarterly results indicate more of the same.
Revenues in its third fiscal 2022...
SaaS startup Revyz aims to protect Jira Cloud
Startup Revyz has come out of stealth mode with a Backup and Restore service for Jira Cloud that's available in the Atlassian marketplace.
Atlassian provides products and services for software...
Dell introduces customer-managed APEX storage
Dell is offering day-to-day management of its APEX Data Storage Services to customers as an alternative to the vendor managing the whole shebang.
The idea is to provide a halfway...
Storage news ticker – September 12
Data protector Catalogic is partnering with Kubernetes storage and software supplier Ondat. Catalogic's CloudCasa protects Kubernetes environments with cyber-resilient, scalable backup and disaster recovery services for cloud native applications. Ondat...
Storage news ticker – September 6
AMD announced that the AMD Pensando Distributed Services Card, powered by the Pensando data processing unit (DPU) chip will be one of the first DPU products to support VMware...