Hammerspace expands Global Data Environment with archival tape system support
Hammerspace has added archival tape system support to its Global Data Environment (GDE). This parallel file system covers data in globally distributed and disparate sites and enables it to...
Percona advocates for automated scaling of storage in Kubernetes
Percona, a provider of open source database services and support, wants to have storage automatically scaled in Kubernetes environments, and has opened up about its efforts.
If a Kubernetes-orchestrated database...
Storage news ticker – January 12
Google Cloud has eliminated data egress fees for customers that quit its service. Amit Zavery, Head of Platform for Google Cloud, blogged: "Google Cloud customers who wish to...
Where did the VCs invest storage startup dollars in 2023? (Clue: AI)
Venture Capitalists invested $1.3 billion in 17 storage startups in 2023, yet the bulk of that cash injection went to just four businesses that are weaving AI into their...
Pure Storage shifts focus to as-a-service model
Pure Storage expects more than half of its revenue to come from subscriptions as it shifts from product sales to become an as-a-service supplier.
This change in viewpoint is detailed...
Tiger Technology takes surveillance storage to the cloud
Tiger Technology has adapted file-tiering-to-the-cloud technology and applied it to surveillance videos, enabling public cloud playback and disaster recovery.
Video surveillance storage needs are growing as more and more cameras...
SSD controller, object and block cloud storage predictions
Storage suppliers predictions generally predict that the supplier’s products will be successful - because they represent the view of the market through the supplier’s own lens. No supplier is...
UltiHash – making better dedupe hash technology
UltiHash, a German startup that’s devised a byte-level deduplication algorithm, claiming it dedupes better than existing alternatives, with faster data access as well, has raised a $2.5 million pre-seed...
Qumulo makes another round of layoffs
Qumulo has laid off customer-facing staff in "sales, marketing, sales ops, and field marketing," according to a person close to the situation.
The scale-out and parallel file system supplier produces...
Nasuni’s post-$100 million ARR growth continues unabated
A briefing from Nasuni revealed that the cloud file services supplier's growth is continuing unabated and that its deals are getting larger.
B&F met Jim Liddle, Nasuni's chief innovation officer...
VirtualZ mainframe data access inspired by female Apache warrior
Profile. IBM mainframe data access company VirtualZ Computing has a native American heritage woven into its backstory which is connected to two of its founders: CEO Jeanne Glass and...
IBM Storage Ceph gets locked objects and more
IBM has updated Ceph with object lock immutability for ransomware protection and previews of NVMe-oF and NFS to object ingest.
Storage Ceph is what IBM now calls Red Hat Ceph,...