The emergence of Cloud 3.0 and independent vendor exclusion
Dominant private/public cloud abstraction layers could exclude independent vendors from suppliers' customer bases.
Dell and HPE are erecting public cloud-like abstraction layers over their on-premises hardware and software systems, transforming...
Dell adds federated management to PowerProtect
Dell is providing federated management for its PowerProtect backup appliances with workload movement to optimize appliance fleet efficiency, and has deduplication analytics on its roadmap.
PowerProtect is a deduplicating purpose-built...
Veritas Backup Exec sends data to Backblaze cloud
Veritas is offering Backblaze B2 cloud storage as a target store for its Backup Exec software service.
B2 is accessed through the S3 protocol and provides a public cloud alternative...
Commvault adds Metallic features to Oracle Cloud
Commvault Metallic SaaS data protection will be offered on the Oracle Cloud as a part of an expanded partnership.
Metallic’s services will be offered on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and...
HPE GreenLake spreads its storage wings
HPE has expanded its public cloud-like GreenLake subscription offering under a Private Cloud Enterprise banner with eight new services: backup and recovery, block storage, compute operations management, data fabric,...
VMware offers vSphere and vSAN as a service
VMware is to offer vSphere and vSAN as on-premises subscription services.
Project Arctic was announced in 2021 as an initiative to offer vSphere as a service, integrated with public clouds,...
Nasuni buys Storage Made Easy
Cloud file data services supplier Nasuni has made its second acquisition in two months, buying UK-based Storage Made Easy (SME) for an undisclosed amount
Nasuni bought DBM Cloud Systems in...
Spectra Logic: A niche storage empire
Over 43 years Spectra Logic has built a niche tape, archive, nearline, object, on-premises, and multi-cloud data management empire.
Quantum is the only other standalone tape library and adjacent systems...
iXsystems adds enterprise features to scale-out NAS
iXsystems' TrueNAS, the popular storage software, is getting high availability and SMB clustering for the enterprise.
TrueNAS says it has more than 1 million installations and >10EB of capacity under...
Odaseva points out API bottlenecks in SaaS backup
There is an API bottleneck issue in the SaaS application backup area, according to company that provides data protection for Salesforce users. As with backing up in-cloud applications and...
Storage news ticker – June 23
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Data protection and security business Acronis has sponsored another sporting team: Scotland's Hibernian FC. Acronis will become become Hibernian FC's Principal Cyber Protection Partner. It will be supported by...
SingleStore rolls out speed and security updates
SingleStore has updated its combined real-time and analytics database with six features to accelerate and scale use of its database engine, prevent noisy neighbours hogging compute resources and make...