NetApp buys CloudCheckr so its customers can control cloud costs better
NetApp has acquired CloudCheckr and its cost-optimising public cloud management CMx platform to expand its Spot by NetApp CloudOps offering.
CloudCheckr’s software analyses the costs for AWS, Azure and GCP...
Your occasional storage digest with IBM, Catalogic, Oracle, Symply, AWS, patents, people and DNA-based...
This week we have have panned more nuggets and fragments of gold from the storage news stream. It features automated driving systems, Kubernetes container data protection, media workflow storage,...
Backblaze: SSDs might be as unreliable as disk drives
Cloud backup and data storage provider BackBlaze is finding its SSDs fail at nearly the same rate as its disk drives at the equivalent stage in their life cycle.
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At your service: Clumio Protect protects Amazon’s S3 buckets
Clumio has introduced a managed service to protect object data in AWS customers’ S3 buckets, transforming the clunky and limited versioning and replication-based AWS facilities into a single centralised...
HPE aims to drown Snowflake, Databricks and SaaS backuppers in its GreenLake
HPE has announced additions to its GreenLake subscription offerings, marking the company’s shift into direct competition with public cloud data warehouses like Snowflake and SaaS-based data protectors such as...
Pure scales out with availability zones, automated and active storage management, and database deployment
Pure Storage has added greatly increased scale-out for its arrays with clusters in availability zones, and added cloud-like storage resource consumption and management, as well as automated database deployment services for containerised apps.
Amazon QuickSite Q — business intelligence without gurus
Amazon has extended its QuickSite business intelligence (BI) service with QuickSite Q, which enables users to type questions about their business data in natural language and receive accurate answers...
Your occasional storage digest with Elastic, MemVerge, an amazing funding round, and more
There’s a strong focus on data querying and analysis in this week’s digest. Data querying has been improved by Elastic enhancing its search products. A US research institute is...
DRaaS youngsters gambol on GigaOm’s Radar screen
Research house GigaOm has published a Radar report on Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) suppliers, saying the industry is young but oldster Microsoft is in the lead.
DRaaS is the provision of...
Keep ransomware at bay: Qumulo’s in-house backup, recovery and DR-as-a-Service
Scale-out filesystem supplier Qumulo is offering its own data protection and cloud-based disaster recovery facilities, saying it protects against ransomware and customers no longer need expensive secondary data centres...
More bang for your enterprise storage buck with parsimonious StorONE and Seagate
StorONE’s software and Seagate’s 84-slot drive chassis make a low-cost, high-capacity storage array with enterprise features which is available as a bundle.
The chassis is Seagate’s five rack unit Exos AP...
Virtual private clouds arrive with Flow Networking at silo-busting Nutanix as part of mega...
Nutanix customers received a great raft of incremental improvements at the company’s .NEXT event, with virtual private clouds in AOS, better disaster recovery and security. Nutanix’s Cloud Platform has...