Storage news ticker – January 14
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A Backblaze blog claims public cloud service provider data retention minimum periods are like a data deletion tax. “Let’s call retention minimums what they really are: delete penalties. We...
Cloud Titan OEM deals mean advantage NetApp
NetApp’s OEM deals with the AWS, Azure and Google public clouds set it ahead of all other file-focused storage providers.
Jason Ader, a William Blair financial analyst, gave subscribers the benefit...
Storage news ticker – January 13
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Data protector Catalogic Software announced general availability for its latest DPX software, with enhancements to agentless backups for virtual environments, cloud archiving, and improved capabilities for compliance and ransomware...
Ising on the cake: Sync Computing spots opportunity for cloud resource optimisation
Startup Sync Computing has devised a hardware answer to the problem that NetApp’s Spot solves with software: how to optimise large-scale public cloud compute and storage use.
Update. CEO Jeff...
Storage news ticker – January 12
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IBM Cloud Pak for Data is a unified data and AI platform that runs on any cloud. It’s now available on the Azure Marketplace along with the IBM Cloud...
Kastenated – Backblaze partners Veeam’s container protection BU
Kasten — a business unit of Veeam dedicated to protecting Kubernetes application data — has added Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage to its set of supported backup target systems.
B2 Cloud...
Sticking to its knitting – ExaGrid breaks records again
Backup target array supplier ExaGrid has notched up another record-breaking quarter with bookings and revenue highs set in the USA, Canada, Latin America, EMEA and APAC regions.
It brought on...
Strategic move: NetApp’s top legal eagle becomes Chief Strategy Officer
In a seemingly unusual move, NetApp has appointed Matt Fawcett, its now ex-General Counsel, as Chief Strategy Officer.
Fawcett has been NetApp's top internal lawyer for 10 years, being appointed...
Interview with a Rubrik MSP channel partner
Blocks & Files had the opportunity to meet and interview Simon Chappell, the CEO of Managed Service Provider (MSP) Assured Data Protection which bases its services on Rubrik's software....
Exec advisors to guide Hammerspace on strategy and tactics
Global data access software startup Hammerspace has set up an Executive Advisory Board to help ensure its products and messages respond to the right business problems – and so...
Speed demon: Samsung and Intel demo PCIe gen 5 SSD setup
PCIe gen 5, quadruple PCIe 3.1's interface speed, looks set to near revolutionise database, AI and analytics performance.
Intel has released a video for CES showing how Samsung’s PCIe gen...
Storage news ticker – December 22
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iXsystems has introduced TrueCharts, a first app catalog for TrueNAS SCALE, its scale-out storage and hyperconverged infrastructure offering. It includes Kubernetes for deploying containerised (e.g. Docker) applications. Many apps...