Storage news ticker – July 29
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Arcserve has extended its SaaS Backup offering to provide simple, secure (immutable), and scalable data protection for Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, and Azure Active environments....
Switchless network supplier Rockport switches CEOs
Co-founder Doug Carwardine has left the CEO spot at Rockport Networks, along with co-CEO Marc Sultzbaugh, with new hire Phil Harris drafted in from Intel’s datacenter group, and given...
CXL-led big memory taking over from age of SAN
CXL 2.0 could create external memory arrays pretty much in the same way Fiber Channel paved the way for external SAN arrays back in the mid-1990s.
The ability to dynamically...
Storage comes together to fight cancer
Infinidat, Pure Storage, and several other major IT and storage vendors are raising funds for the Tech Tackles Cancer program.
The non-profit initiative will bring vendors together in a “Battle...
Cisco + NetApp + Pure = CI as a service
Converged Infrastructure (CI) is being offered as a Cisco+ Hybrid Cloud service based on existing FlexPod and FlashStack deals with NetApp and Pure Storage.
Cisco+ is an as-a-service brand combining...
Rockport flat network boosts UK supercomputer
Rockport Network’s flat, switchless network is interconnecting compute nodes and storage systems in ExCALIBUR, the UK’s DiRAC exascale supercomputer test environment.
Rockport believes that hierarchical leaf-spine, switched networks are inherently...
A glimpse at Dell’s future
Dell Technologies World 2022 attendees this week saw and heard from Dell's probable next CEO: Chuck Whitten, He arrived at Dell as its co-COO in August last year, a man...
Dell supercharges storage hardware underlying its software-defined storage
Dell is raising its storage hardware and software game with updates to its PowerMax, PowerStore, PowerScale and PowerFlex systems that increase capacity, performance, automation, data mobility and security.
PowerMax is...
Storage news ticker – April 26
Ethernet adapter supplier Chelsio Communications has introduced its seventh-generation T7 Unified Wire DPU (SmartNIC). It is built with up to eight Arm Cortex A72 cores for embedded applications’ control...
5G
5G – Fifth generation wireless networking. This is up to 100 times faster than the current 4G broadband cellular network standard used by mobile phones. 5G has been designed...
Big data? Bring it on – XenData’s multi-100PB active archive
XenData has announced an X100 active archive which can manage multiple hundreds of petabytes in tape or optical cartridge libraries with a front-end RAID cache.
This system is for enterprises...
NetApp withdraws from Russia
NetApp is suspending its Russian operations in light of the Ukraine invasion.
The company has employees in Russia and sells to local businesses via an OEM agreement with Fujitsu. Tech...