Web3 storage needs to ditch cryptocurrency
Analysis: Decentralized storage – the Web3 concept – will fail unless it deals with seven issues that are stopping its growth.
Web3 storage or dStorage (decentralized storage) is deliberately not...
OVH, IBM promoting Cold Archive in France
French public cloud supplier OVH is setting up an Amazon Glacier-type service in France, working with IBM tape systems.
OVH is promoting a December 6 event on LinkedIn in conjunction...
Scality adds dynamic data tiering to RING
Scality has added NVMe flash and tiering support to its RING object storage product and extended its integrations at API level with Veeam backup, VMware Cloud Director, and Prometheus...
EIDF: Where tape storage meets artificial intelligence
The Edinburgh International Data Facility (EIDF) has combined Spectra Logic tape storage with Cerebras wafer-scale AI so that archived datasets can be mined for insights.
Spectra's cold data storage tape...
Panasas ups Atempo with Miria, a data-mover suite for HPC and AI
Panasas is known for shipping PanFS ActiveStor storage systems for high-performance computing shops. Now it’s branching out by partnering with Atempo and its Miria data-moving product.
Panasas started getting a...
IBM builds Diamondback tape library for enterprise and cloud hyperscalers
Big Blue is active afresh in the archive-storing tape library business, with its Diamondback product for web-scale enterprises and hyperscalers, claimed to be the industry's densest library.
IBM says it...
Quantum enters reseller deal for Atempo backup
Quantum is to resell Atempo’s Tina backup software combined with its backup appliances and other hardware in product bundles.
Atempo’s Tina (Time Navigator) provides on-premises and SaaS backup/restore of physical...
Spectra Logic partners with iRODS Consortium
Data preservers need a data store and Spectra Logic plans to provide it, with movement from on-premises tape to disk and cloud object stores a benefit.
It has collaborated with...
PoINT object archive combines disk and tape
Germany's PoINT Software and Systems has devised a combined disk plus tape archive product with disk random access speed and tape capacity.
Its Point Archival Gateway - Unified Object Storage...
Storage news ticker – September 16
The AI Summit showed that architectural / resource disaggregation is an increasing focus in the AI industry – both at the chip and system level, says Wells Fargo analyst Aaron...
LTO tape to keep rolling for 5 more generations
The overlords behind the LTO Program have laid out the future of the tape technology, with plans to take the format to at least 1.4PB of compressed storage over...
XenData kit takes tape copies of cloud archives
Archiving system supplier XenData has launched an appliance which makes a local tape copy of a public cloud archive to save on geo-replication and egress fees.
XenData’s CX-10 Plus is...