NetApp previews high-end array and adds automatic anti-ransomware weapons to ONTAP
At a virtual Insight 2021 event, NetApp has unveiled planned automated ransomware defences in the latest release of its ONTAP array operating system, along with enhanced data services and...
Spectra Logic takes the Vail – raises attack defences to repel malware boarders
Spectra Logic has made managing petabytes and exabytes of distributed data easier by placing it in a single virtual pool, making its BlackPearl and StorCycle systems more resistant to...
Cohesity adds DRaaS offering, data safety, and plans a virtual Fort Knox to manage...
Data protector and manager, and soon governess, Cohesity has announced a Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service offering along with DataGovern, a data security and governance service, and Project Fort Knox, a virtual...
Musical Chairs: Acronis gets Maritzed
Cyber data protector Acronis has appointed ex-VMware CEO Paul Maritz to chair its board, replacing René Bonvanie who had been Chairman since February 2014.
Serguei (SB) Belousssov founded Acronis in...
Storage news ticker tape — October 18
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Marvell is sampling its Octeon 10 DPU (Data Processing Unit) with between 8 and 36 Arm Neoverse N2 cores based on Arm’s Armv9 architecture. The chip is built using...
Much ado about nothing much: Gartner’s latest primary array MQ
Gartner’s latest annual primary array Magic Quadrant shows a late-stage mature market with little differentiating innovation and moderately stable supplier positions.
Update; Vast Data Comment added. October 18, 2021.
There is...
Hammerspace exec interview on supply shortages — and working for Warren Buffet
Are you affected by IT hardware supply shortages? We had an email interview with Hammerspace’s SVP for Strategy and Business Development, Tony Asaro, who’s been hearing from customers about...
Storage news ticker tape — 14 October 2021
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Rambus has announced the industry’s first 5600 MT/s DDR5 Registering Clock Driver (RCD) — a 17 per cent increase in data rate over the first-generation 4800 MT/s. This improvement...
IBM sprays storage improvements across its Spectrums
IBM has announced enhancements across its Spectrum storage software products, supporting Azure, boosting AIOps, speeding data to GPUs and adding a larger proprietary flash drive.
The news was revealed in...
3-2-1 — Portworx PX-Backup supports golden rule
Pure’s Portworx business unit has updated its container PX-Backup software to add support for file shares, object storage targets, inter-cloud portability and encryption.
PX-Backup v2.1 can back up Kubernetes applications...
Airbyte aims to kill proprietary ETL data warehouse feed pipelines
Airbyte has launched a cloud service for its open-source Extract, Transform and Load software product, until now only available on-premises.
Its Airbyte Cloud uses compute time rather than data volume-based...
Hitachi Vantara tries to catch up, with VSP arrays, hybrid cloud and containerisation support
Hitachi Vantara has added new top-end storage arrays along with support for hybrid clouds and containerisation, faster object storage and S3 object ingest, plus improved Ops Center management.
Update; VSP...