Amazon migrates offline tape data to Glacier with Snowball Edge VTL-in-a-box
Amazon Web Services suitcase-sized Snowball Edge box can now collect ingest data from tape cartridges and be shipped to an AWS centre for file import into Glacier object storage.
The...
DNA storage and science: archiving unreality
DNA storage researchers have devised a neat way to record events inside cells down to a one-minute granularity, but are wildly off-beam when predicting this could become useful as a...
StrongBox pivots to enterprise unstructured data management market, and a new name
StrongBox is looking likely to change its name to StrongLink as it pivots away from the high-end cross-silo file and object management market to pursue the broader enterprise market.
This...
Quantum grows revenue again – despite ongoing impact of supply chain issues
File management and tape system vendor Quantum recorded its second consecutive growth quarter with $93.2 million revenues for Q2 2022 ended September 30. Revenues would have been higher but for...
Quantum tape library: Partially eject, eject, eject to block ransomware
Quantum has come up with an ingenious low-tech remedy for ransomware getting into its Scalar tape libraries: partially ejecting the tape magazines so the robot can’t move tape cartridges...
Storage news ticker – October 29
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Molly Presley – who left the storage industry in January this year when she resigned as Qumulo’s Global Product Marketing Head to become VP Marketing at Pantheon (SaaS website...
Quantum’s exabyte-munching scale-out modular tape library
Oh, it turns out Quantum’s success in selling tape libraries to three of the top hyperscalers is due to specially developed scale-out and modular tape libraries and object software.
In...
Quantum writes old and cold objects to tape for archiving
Quantum is introducing an object-storage-on-tape tier to its ActiveScale object storage system, providing an on-premises Amazon S3 Glacier-like managed service offering.
The idea is to have a single namespace covering...
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,...
Your occasional storage digest with Rewind, Satori, a Snowflake quadfecta, benchmark bifecta and more
There’s a mini-blizzard of Snowflake news — a quadfecta in fact — plus two startups raising cash, Rewind for SaaS application service backup, and Satori for its secure real-time...
Your occasional storage buffet, with Commvault, NetApp, Lenovo and SingleStore plus accompanying tidbits
Commvault is offering anti-ransomware services to its customers. NetApp wants a billion dollars a year in recurring revenue from the public cloud. Lenovo wants to offer all its products...
Tape media sales dropped eight per cent in 2020
Tape media sales dropped last year — but the hyperscalers are buying more tape libraries this year, which should lead to a tape media sales rise as night follows...