Your occasional storage digest including Arcserve, Excelero and WekaIO
There's a lot of teamwork going on in data storage land as suppliers piggyback on each other's strengths. We see it with Arcserve and Sophos, WekaIO and Valohai, and...
Meet Arrikto and its Rok container storage backup software
Arrikto, a small California startup, has devised a form of shared storage for Kubernetes-orchestrated workloads. It claims customers can save 64 per cent of AWS costs by running a...
Dell implants Isilon filers into the Google Cloud
Update: May 26, 2020. Customer availability note added.
Dell Technologies has added the scale-out Isilon OneFS file server to Google Cloud. Customers get 50PB file name space and 200GB per...
Pay less to leave: LucidLink’s AWS egress cost reduction bundle
Users streaming data from AWS can save egress charges by storing and streaming the data using LucidLink’s Filespaces bundled with AWS S3 storage.
Peter Thompson, LucidLink CEO, has provided an...
Disk drives will still store more than half of the world’s data in 2024
Update: Media share information added and StorageSphere difference from DataSphere added.
Disk drives will store 54 per cent of the world’s data in 2024, down from 65 per cent in...
Pandemic hits Commvault revenues
Commvault, the data management vendor, missed analyst revenue estimates for the fourth quarter ended March 31, citing the effects of covid-19.
Revenues fell nine per cent to $164.7m. Full...
Saganworks creates virtual reality rooms for storing files and folders
Saganworks, a US startup, aims to revitalise file:folder user interfaces with virtual reality rooms that create a memory or mindmap of user files.
The thinking is that storing files in...
StorageOS reinvents VSAN for containers
StorageOS, a UK startup, has released version 2 of its eponymous software, which effectively reinvents virtual SANs for containers.
Alex Chircop, CEO, said StorageOS 2 delivers production grade storage in...
Reader’s storage digest: Backup, HPC storage, data lakes and more
In this week's roundup of storage news, we look at Dremio's Data Lake Engine on AWS, Rubrik extending its public cloud workload coverage, HPE enlarging GreenLake to cover...
File collaborator Panzura bought by VC firm
Panzura which supplies file sharing via cloud storage gateways has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by Profile Capital Management, an investment management business.
Freedom Cloud NAS is Panzura’s cloud-based...
Datrium extends VMware DRaaS to edge and ROBO
Datrium has made its DRaaS with VMware Cloud on AWS disaster recovery service for VMware available to edge and remote office and branch office (ROBO) sites.
The company enables a...
AWS slashes log data search prices with UltraWarm ElasticSearch service
AWS has made it cheaper to search large volumes of log data by inserting an 'UltraWarm' storage tier between cheap, slow S3 and fast, expensive Elastic Block Store (EBS).
Using...