Infinidat: Our speedy storage arrays do not run any faster with Optane
Infinidat has no immediate plans to add Optane support because its memory-caching technology is already faster than Intel’s 3D XPoint.
In a press briefing today, Yair Cohen, VP of product...
Google Cloud rolls out Memcached database caching
Google has announced databases can run faster in its cloud via the Memcached protocol.
Memorystore for Memcached beta launch is available in major Google regions across the US, Asia and...
Why Salesforce needs third party apps for safe backup and restore
The unwritten rule for Salesforce users is: 'Backup your own data'.
Without a dedicated backup app, customers could risk losing their data because Salesforce does not offer complete dataset backups...
Amazon makes AWS EFS file read ops 5x faster
Amazon Web Services has upped the read operations per second for default Elastic File Systems users from 7,000 to 35,000 - at no charge.
The company has posted some details...
Your occasional enterprise storage digest, featuring Commvault, Nutanix, HYCU, MariaDB and more
Companies in this week's enterprise storage news roundup, cover encryption, replication, tiering, object support, snapshots, the public cloud and more. Let's start alphabetically.
Commvault upgrades for cloud and simpler data...
Zerto lays off staff to survive ‘storm’
Zerto, the disaster recovery startup, laid off a "ton of employees" today, according to a source. We asked Zerto about this, using this exact phrase.
In response Zerto sent us...
Komprise KEDM migrates file data ‘6 times faster than the status quo – and...
Komprise today released a file migration utility incorporating parallelisation, which runs 27 times faster than Linux Rsync, according to its internal benchmarks.
Komprise Elastic Data Management (KEDM) takes file data...
Your occasional enterprise storage roundup, featuring Backblaze, Quantum, Storj, the QUIC protocol and more
Data growth provides the fuel for our main items in this week's data storage news digest. Let's get cracking.
Backblaze cloud storage reaches exabyte milestone
Backblaze, a cloud storage provider, is...
Hyperscalers keep server sales afloat. Enterprise storage vendors are less fortunate
Covid-19 has depressed demand for servers and data storage from transportation, hospitality and physical retail operation. At the same the pandemic has increased demand for video streaming, web conferencing...
AWS adds cheaper HDD option for Windows file services
AWS has introduced a cheaper - and slower - disk storage option for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, which previously used flash memory only.
Single-Availability Zone HDD storage is...
Life after NKS. NetApp to work with ‘all flavours of Kubernetes’
NetApp is developing its hyperconverged platform to deliver an automated Kubernetes facility. The storage giant has told us to expect a "significant announcement in the Spring".
Longer term, NetApp will...
Zerto 8 extends VMware backup and DR to Google Cloud Platform
Zerto has added support for backup and disaster to VMware workloads on Google Cloud Platform via its latest software release.
Zerto 8 makes its official debut tomorrow, March 24, in...